Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Laurel, MD ranks #1,512 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 2,229 patents from 605 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Laurel, MD include Chevron, Laitram, L.L.C., Sprint Communications. That works out to 74.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 605 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Michael D. Jensen Chevron 90
2 Matthew L. Fourney Laitram, L.L.C. 74
3 Michael Joseph Gardner Sprint Communications 55
#4 William D. Turner Xerox 40
#5 Kenji Numata Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 36
#6 Horace P. Halling Eg&G Pressure Science 35
#7 Michael J. Piszczek Datadirect Networks 30
#8 Frank F. Kretschmer, Jr. US Air Force 28
#8 Jeffrey D. Kendall Earthway Products 28
#10 Thomas Evan Wilson Cadence Design Systems 27
#11 Yan Han IBM 25
#11 Ichiro Takeuchi University Of Maryland, College Park 25
#13 Patrick J. Ryan AMD 24
#14 Bliss G. Carkhuff The Johns Hopkins University 22
#15 Merida Miller Under Armour 21
#15 Jeffrey R. Deschamps US Navy 21
#17 Hisataka Kobayashi The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health And Human Services 19
#17 Donald C. Kauffman Honeywell 19
#19 Yuhuang Wang University Of Maryland, College Park 18
#19 James Patrick Cipriano GE 18
#21 Harry K. Charles, Jr. The Johns Hopkins University 17
#22 Donald Webster Comalco Aluminum Limited 16
#22 Truc-Chi Huynh-Tran W.R. Grace & Co.-Conn. 16
#24 Bettina Nechay 15
#24 Neal Pisenti Ionq 15
#26 Ali M. Darwish US Army 14
#27 Martin Brokner Christiansen 13
#27 Stephen G. Wargo Laitram, L.L.C. 13
#27 Hesham El-Gamal 13
#30 Russell A. Fink Verizon 12
#30 Bruce Ledley Jacob Crossbar 12
#30 Kirvin L. Hodge Wellstat Therapeutics 12
#30 David A. Kitchin The Johns Hopkins University 12
#34 Keith B. Alexander Ironnet Cybersecurity 11
#34 Gary L. Jackson Koehring 11
#34 Ronald L. Cotterman Cryovac 11
#34 Stephen Williams Cadence Design Systems 11
#34 Glenn Swartz Children'S Medical Center 11
#39 Jeffrey Strovel Convergene 10
#39 Judith A. Blake Human Genome Sciences 10
#39 Liang-Hong Guo Meso Scale Technologies, Llc. 10
#39 Lucjan J. J. Hronowski North American Vaccine 10
#39 Daniel S. Hinkel US NSA 10
#39 Ronald W. Waynant US Dept of Health & Human Services 10
#39 Michael Raleigh Bae Systems Advanced Technologies 10
#39 Scott Orth Polk Audio 10
#39 Dennis Toibero Best Lockers 10
#48 Gary H. Kamimori US Army 9
#48 John L. Schnase NASA 9
#48 Stephen L. Kampe Lockheed Martin 9

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