Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Newport News, VA ranks #1,512 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 2,229 patents from 572 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Newport News, VA include Pratt Corrugated Holdings, Bnnt, Siemens Automotive. That works out to 12.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 572 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Shifeng Chen Pratt Corrugated Holdings 124
2 Michael W. Smith Bnnt 74
3 Robert McFarland Siemens Automotive 58
#4 William T. Yost NASA 47
#4 Michael P. Dallmeyer Siemens Automotive 47
#6 Kevin C. Jordan Bnnt 45
#6 Danny O. Wright Siemens Automotive 45
#8 Emilie J. Siochi NASA 39
#9 R. Roy Whitney Bnnt 34
#10 Barry S. Robinson Siemens Automotive 30
#11 David P. Wieczorek Siemens Automotive 25
#12 Jason T. Kilgore Siemens Automotive 23
#12 Kazuhiko Hasegawa Canon 23
#12 Michael G. Jones NASA 23
#15 Bryan Hall Siemens Automotive 22
#16 Irving E. Figge, Sr. Atlantic Research Group 19
#17 Robert E. Weber Bendix Limited 18
#17 John P. Latimer Deepsea Ventures 18
#19 J. Michael Joseph Siemens Vdo Automotive Ag 17
#20 Robert A. Bruce RTX (Raytheon) 16
#21 William Dorogy HP 15
#21 Ross Wood Siemens Automotive 15
#21 James Robert Parish Siemens Automotive 15
#21 Stephen J. Havens NASA 15
#21 Charles C. Smith Corning Incorporated 15
#21 Ralph W. Carp Bendix Limited 15
#27 James Proffitt Jefferson Science Associates 14
#27 Leonard M. Weinstein NASA 14
#29 Patrick Ryan Huntington Ingalls Incorporated 13
#29 Harrie William Bonnah, II Delphi Technologies 13
#31 Jonathan Martin Huntington Ingalls Incorporated 12
#31 Frank Hohl Wolff Walsrode Ag 12
#31 Peter A. Parker Trinity Bay Equipment Holdings 12
#31 John M. Gardner 12
#31 John S. Bright Siemens Automotive 12
#31 John H. Sanders Dell Products 12
#31 Jingming J. Shen Siemens Automotive 12
#38 Vahagn R. Nazaryan Hampton University 10
#38 Paul M. Danehy NASA 10
#38 K. Elliott Cramer NASA 10
#38 Louis G. DeGrace Siemens Automotive 10
#42 Antony Jalink, Jr. NASA 9
#42 Lindsay Helbing Capital One Services 9
#42 Dennis R. White Printronix 9
#42 Brian Bare Huntington Ingalls Incorporated 9
#42 James Morris Siemens Automotive 9
#42 Michelle D. Shinn Jefferson Science Associates 9
#48 John H. Hall Eastman Kodak 8
#48 Laurence J. Bement NASA 8
#48 Allan H. Taylor NASA 8

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