Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Mount Airy, MD ranks #3,404 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 876 patents from 181 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Mount Airy, MD include Gpi Nil Holdings, Dsm Ip Assets B.V., IBM. That works out to 90.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 181 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Joseph P. Steiner Gpi Nil Holdings 68
2 Ross Zirkle Dsm Ip Assets B.V. 55
3 John Michael Suit IBM 54
3 Arthur E. Colvin, Jr. Sensors For Medicine And Science 54
#5 Joel Jessee Molecular Transfer 39
#6 Christopher Dale Sloop Earth Networks 27
#7 Brian Smith Arena Pharmaceuticals 24
#7 Michael J. MASSARE Novavax 24
#9 Lee E. Sattler Verizon 19
#10 Glenn Hoke Isis Pharmaceuticals 15
#11 Tadd C. Kippeny Bae Systems Information And Electronic Systems Integration 14
#12 Paul Wyar Acterna 12
#12 Benjamin Henniges 12
#14 Santiago Romero Baccarat Plus Enterprises 11
#14 John Goodyear Egress Software Technologies Ip Limited 11
#14 Sarah L. Ferrari Evapco 11
#14 Brian Dougherty Human Genome Sciences 11
#14 Matthew Butehorn Hughes Network Systems 11
#19 Donna Mendrick Human Genome Sciences 10
#20 Brett Gidge Current Technologies 9
#20 Louis E. Henderson US Dept of Health & Human Services 9
#20 Theodore Hockey Symbol Technologies 9
#20 Jay Mathews Digitaloptics 9
#20 David B. Hurry Merck 9
#25 Adrian Sapio Link Labs 8
#25 James J. Schmidt US Army 8
#25 William M. Teppig, Jr. Aeplog 8
#28 Gerald F. Ricciardi The Johns Hopkins University 7
#28 Christopher W. Lemieux Black & Decker 7
#28 Ronald A. Dempster Sourcefire 7
#28 Richmond Emory Best Intel 7
#28 Michael Rash Extreme Networks 7
#33 Erik K. HARTWELL Advanced Drainage Systems 6
#33 Michael Flora Henry M. Jackson Foundation For The Advancement Of Military Medicine 6
#33 David Fenstermacher Viavi Solutions 6
#33 Philip Lazo Westrock Shared Services 6
#33 Stephen Semancik US Dept of Commerce 6
#33 Richard Pires Thermo Fisher 6
#33 Mark A. Bellmore Northrop Grumman 6
#33 Kyle William Broadway NVIDIA 6
#41 Thomas E. Fugini Datadirect Networks 5
#41 Lou King Hughes Aircraft 5
#41 Richard R. Gregory, Jr. US Army 5
#41 Raymond F. Daugherty IBM 5
#41 Paul Larkin 5
#46 Peter J. Churchyard Mcafee 4
#46 James Zik Pctel 4
#46 Elliott White, III Microsoft 4
#46 Lee Douglas McBryde Datadirect Networks 4
#46 Fiore Louis Nardo, II Infoblox 4

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