Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Great Falls, VA ranks #1,435 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 2,347 patents from 347 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Great Falls, VA include Capital One Services, The Procter & Gamble, Avigilon Fortress. That works out to 147.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 347 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Michael Mossoba Capital One Services 506
2 John W. Smith The Procter & Gamble 83
3 Zhong Zhang Avigilon Fortress 79
#4 Joseph P. Kennedy Andrew 56
#4 Jon L. Roberts Robelight 56
#6 Martin Alles Andrew 54
#7 David E. McDysan Verizon 45
#8 Masoud Olfat Clearwire Ip Holdings L.L.C. 40
#9 Edmund J. Fish Aol 38
#10 Larry L. Lu Aol 37
#11 W. Karl Renner Aol 32
#12 Michael E. Alexander IBM 27
#13 Anatoley T. Zheleznyak Digital Signal 23
#14 Eric Burger Dialogic 22
#14 Brian M. Lyman Emergency Alert Solutions Group 22
#14 Amit Pathania Dish Wireless L.L.C. 22
#14 Kevin G. Cherven Emergency Alert Solutions Group 22
#18 Dmitri Maslov IBM 21
#19 Magid M. Abraham Comscore 20
#19 Reza Arefi Intel 20
#19 Steven M. H. Wallman Foliofn 20
#22 Tell Allen Gates Edge2020 17
#22 Benjamin Reyes Microstrategy Incorporated 17
#22 Gregory E. Day Gauge Works 17
#25 Darien Kindlund Fireeye 16
#25 Tong Yu IBM 16
#25 Brian H. Hajost Steelcloud 16
#25 Harrison Robert Murphy Kickball Concepts 16
#29 Stephen C. Hahn Oracle 15
#29 Subhash D. Karmarkar US Air Force 15
#31 Roger Bradford Content Analyst Company 14
#31 Priyavadan Mamidipudi Optical Air Data Systems 14
#31 Kunal Arora Capital One Services 14
#31 Ali Fotowat-Ahmady Philips Electronics North America 14
#35 Philip D. Egan Tensar Corporation 13
#36 Douglas E. Humphreys Vehicle Control Technologies 12
#36 Stephen E. Petruzzo Greentec-Usa 12
#36 Bernard F. Phlips US Air Force 12
#39 Peter S. Tippett Verizon 11
#39 Menner Abdullatief Tatang Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (“Freddie Mac”) 11
#39 James Stewart McEwan Technology Advancement Group 11
#39 Tsih C. Yang US Air Force 11
#39 John W. Seazholtz Bell Atlantic Network Services 11
#44 Daniel Genovese K2M 10
#44 James H. Cole US Air Force 10
#44 Alain Durand Comcast 10
#44 Walter Koechner Fibertek 10
#48 Roland Westerdal Bilsom Ab 9
#48 Yazdan Shirvany Capital One Services 9
#48 Samuel S. Howlette Mci Communications 9

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