Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Gaithersburg, MD ranks #360 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 8,726 patents from 1,746 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Gaithersburg, MD include IBM, Amazon, Canon. That works out to 125.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,746 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Shom Ponoth IBM 223
2 Michael V. Recker Amazon 115
3 Kenton C. Hasson Canon 91
#4 David Brown General Motors 89
#5 Robert H. Purcell US Dept of Health & Human Services 77
#6 Edward A. Richley Xerox 73
#7 Vladimir Anatolyevich Aksyuk AT&T 58
#7 Jonathan K. Leland Igen International 58
#9 James D. Velke Wright Manufacturing 55
#9 Reinhard Ebner Human Genome Sciences 55
#11 Satyajit Roy Hughes Network Systems 52
#12 Gregory M. Glenn USDA 51
#13 Herren Wu Medimmune Limited 50
#14 Robert D. Rosenthal Futrex 48
#14 John L. Magnani Glycomimetics 48
#16 David B. Krizman Expression Pathology 47
#17 Paul O. Zamora Biosurface Engineering Technologies 46
#17 Raouf A. Guirguis Lamina 46
#19 Suzanne U. Emerson US Dept of Health & Human Services 45
#19 David M. Hilbert 45
#21 Todd Hembrough Expression Pathology 43
#22 David B. Petersen IBM 42
#23 Dmitri Alperovitch Mcafee 41
#23 Shalini Sharma Wellstat Therapeutics 41
#25 Kuriacose Joseph Directv 38
#25 Vladimir A. Dmitriev Technologies And Devices International 38
#25 Gregory A. Dale Canon 38
#25 Shulin Zeng Canon 38
#29 Thomas Jackson Hughes Network Systems 36
#29 Shozo Takagi American Dental Association Health Foundation 36
#29 Yun-Zhao Liu Guangdong Jetfast Portable Lighting Co. 36
#32 Stephen L. Hoffman Sanaria 35
#32 Leung M. Shiu United States Postal Service 35
#34 Changshou Gao Medimmune Limited 34
#35 Paul Young Human Genome Sciences 33
#36 Jorge H. Guzman Directv 32
#36 John Greene Human Genome Sciences 32
#38 Douglas Shander The Gillette Company 31
#39 John R. Howard The Drackett 30
#39 Michael A. Brasch Invitrogen 30
#39 Ayoub Rashtchian Thermo Fisher 30
#39 Juan Jose Marugan The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health And Human Services 30
#43 Dmitry Samarsky Rxi Pharmaceuticals 29
#43 Lance E. Good Xerox 29
#43 Partha S. Chowdhury Medimmune Limited 29
#43 Robert T. Baum Verizon 29
#43 Eugene K. Achter Thermedics 29
#48 Peter Hou Hughes Network Systems 28
#48 Jeff D. Debad Meso Scale Technologies, Llc. 28
#48 Virgil Johnson, Jr. Lexmark International 28

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