Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Gainesville, VA ranks #5,569 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 462 patents from 109 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Gainesville, VA include ExxonMobil, Aol, George Mason. That works out to 25.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 109 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Stuart S. Shih ExxonMobil 77
2 Patrick Meenan Aol 32
3 Emanuel Petricoin George Mason 23
#4 Christopher M. Boggs Rockwell Collins 18
#5 Mitchell P. Hazam Navy Federal Credit Union 16
#5 Bruce A. Brandt United States Postal Service 16
#7 Phillip Turner General Motors 15
#8 Carl J. Moses Amazon 14
#9 Aurelia Meloni-Ehrig Quest Diagnostics Investments 12
#10 Timothy Wilson IBM 11
#10 Daniel R. Turner Traxyl 11
#12 Michael Stanfield I4C Innovations 10
#13 Marciano M. Calanog ExxonMobil 9
#14 Anthony Payne Oberthur Technologies Of America 8
#14 Margaret L. Choiniere United States Postal Service 8
#16 Erich Joseph Petre United States Postal Service 7
#16 Safwan A. Khan Apple 7
#18 Charles D. Woods Bendix-Atlantic Inflator 6
#19 Timothy D. CLINE Oracle 5
#19 Jeremy McLean Verisign 5
#19 Ben Thompson Ludington Amazon 5
#19 Anthony R. Wells Kaman Aerospace 5
#19 Anthony Ramos AT&T 5
#19 Tony Huynh Id.Me 5
#25 Robert M. Merkling, Jr. IBM 4
#25 Wanda L. Key United States Postal Service 4
#25 Adrian Kingston Cisco 4
#25 Michael J. Law IBM 4
#25 Brian Loop Bae Systems Information And Electronic Systems Integration 4
#25 Albert M. Wollmann Ch2M Hill 4
#31 Thomas E. Love Bae Systems Information And Electronic Systems Integration 3
#31 Javier Mendez-Rodriguez Exelis 3
#31 Humayun Chaudhry Aeva 3
#31 Brian F. Mannix 3
#31 Bryce A. Dickinson 3
#31 Dirk H. SATTLER United States Postal Service 3
#31 Pauline Patricia Hutton K2M 3
#31 Matthew Herbek Lockheed Martin 3
#39 Brian S. Zatkoff 2
#39 Allen Baturay 2
#39 John Donovan Delmare, JR. Accenture Global Solutions Limited 2
#39 John H. Khouri Unknown 2
#39 Ellen Goodwin 2
#39 Heather Nickerson 2
#39 Yingyue Xu Beijing University Of Posts And Telecommunications 2
#39 Dawn Pierre 2
#39 Stephen Addicks Mci 2
#39 Claudio R. Bravo 2
#39 Anoop S. Bawa 2
#39 Roderick Highsmith 2

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