Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Fredericksburg, VA ranks #2,022 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,593 patents from 540 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Fredericksburg, VA include Cyber Ip Holdings, B.A.A.T Enterprises, United States Postal Service. That works out to 56.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 540 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Carl Bailey Jacobs Cyber Ip Holdings 58
2 William K. Schlotter, IV B.A.A.T Enterprises 51
3 Ann M. Schlotter 48
#4 Donald Eugene Irwin United States Postal Service 46
#5 William L. Klima Sprayex 45
#6 Stephen Fink IBM 36
#7 Daniel Wack Kla-Tencor 33
#8 Marvin Motsenbocker Maruta Electric Boatworks 22
#9 Andrew J. Franklin National Semiconductor 20
#10 Steven E. Anderson General Instrument 19
#11 Sidney E. Veazey Se Ventures 18
#11 Ian B. Vabnick The United States Of America As Represented By The Federal Bureau Of Investigation, Department Of Justice 18
#13 William M. Moscrip US Air Force 15
#13 H. Smith McKann Mineral Products 15
#15 Allen D. Parks US Air Force 14
#15 Larry A. Fontenot US Air Force 14
#17 Habib Riazi AT&T 13
#17 Wayne E. Bailey Unknown 13
#17 Gerhard W. Thielman US Air Force 13
#17 Scott E. Spence US Air Force 13
#21 Stephen C. Kenyon Iceberg Industries 12
#21 Kendall Ferguson Trimble Navigation Limited 12
#21 Donald M. Oglesby NASA 12
#24 Kennon Copeland Ims Software Services 10
#24 Luke D. Curtas Mid Atlantic Vinyl Products 10
#24 Devon Byrd Invitrogen 10
#27 Richard Parks Sulzer Mixpac Ag 9
#27 Clifton Wilcox 9
#29 Howard L. Dunmire US Army 8
#29 Travis Lontz Pre Holding 8
#29 Michael A. Pompeii US Air Force 8
#29 Thomas W. Van Doren Hdt Expeditionary Systems 8
#33 John Blankenship Applied Immune Sciences 7
#33 Joshua King Emerson Climate Technologies 7
#33 Thomas G. Digges, Jr. Virginia Semiconductor 7
#33 Richard Furr Cisco 7
#33 Roy F. Gratz NASA 7
#33 Mark R. Rolf Columbia Insurance 7
#39 Kasey Smith Xraydepot 6
#39 Van N. Smith Xraydepot 6
#39 Joan Bienvenue Leidos Innovations Technology 6
#39 John Sun Springcoin 6
#39 Jerome Benedict Tankersley GE 6
#39 Jim Boch 6
#39 Joseph Payton Parsons 6
#39 Pearl Rayms-Keller US Air Force 6
#39 Roland Quaye 6
#39 Jonathan Goldstein RTX (Raytheon) 6
#39 Charles Kennith Fincher 6
#39 Stephen C. Elmore George Mason Intellectual Properties 6

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