Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Herndon, VA ranks #551 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 6,164 patents from 878 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Herndon, VA include Ofinno, Amazon, Alarm.Com Incorporated. That works out to 250.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 878 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Hua Zhou Ofinno 858
2 Ali Cagatay Cirik Ofinno 545
3 Kai Xu Ofinno 340
#4 Weihua Qiao Ofinno 213
#5 Kevin Christopher Miller Amazon 162
#6 David James Hutz Alarm.Com Incorporated 119
#7 Michael Garcia Ibt Co.,Ltd 83
#8 Robert L. Cantrell Walmart Apollo 56
#9 Arun Manroa Time Warner Cable 55
#10 Esmail Hejazi Dinan Clearwire Ip Holdings L.L.C. 54
#11 Gregory M. Gutt The Boeing 53
#12 Thomas B. Gravely Andrew 51
#13 Hitesh Batra United Therapeutics 45
#14 Stephen M. Dearing United States Postal Service 43
#15 Robert Eric Fitzgerald Amazon 42
#16 Neha Goel Qualcomm 41
#16 Keming Chen General Motors 41
#18 Robert Nathan Picardi Alarm.Com Incorporated 36
#19 Joseph Miller Codonics 34
#20 Jason Rogers Abl Ip Holding 31
#21 James E. Curry Bell Atlantic Network Services 30
#22 Michael McDonald The Procter & Gamble 29
#23 Sean P. White Abl Ip Holding 28
#23 Joseph A. Bucaro US Air Force 28
#23 Mitra Derakhshan Align Technology 28
#26 Raju Penmasta United Therapeutics 27
#26 Sriram Sharma Somos 27
#26 Gaurang Bhatt Capital One Services 27
#29 Xiaodong Fu Corning Incorporated 26
#30 Anjaneya S. Kovvali ExxonMobil 25
#30 Martin W. McKee Verizon 25
#30 Himaanshu Gupta Here Global B.V. 25
#30 Paul John Tillotson Amazon 25
#34 Geeta Shyamala Capital One Services 24
#34 Sudhir N. Murthy D.C. Water And Sewer Authority 24
#36 Sathyanarayanan Raghunathan Sprint Spectrum 23
#37 Joseph L. Ganley Cadence Design Systems 22
#37 Pierre Mallett, III Centripetal Networks 22
#37 Joseph Waldron Verisign 22
#37 Stephen E. Schmidt Amazon 22
#37 Rashmi Kumar Luminus Devices 22
#42 Wei-Li Liao Expression Pathology 21
#43 Shaun Noel Missett Calix 20
#43 David A. Stenger US Air Force 20
#43 Robert Mueller Dr. Ing. H.C. F. Porsche Ag 20
#43 Douglas Earl Dyer Ideal Innovations 20
#47 Aparna Nagargadde Amazon 19
#47 Suresh Majjara Sprint Spectrum 19
#47 Maheswaran Vijayakumar Sprint Spectrum 19
#47 John J. Williams GE 19

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