Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Poolesville, MD ranks #6,342 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 387 patents from 52 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Poolesville, MD include Cisco, Thermo Fisher, Current Technologies. That works out to 67.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 52 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 David McGrew Cisco 156
2 David Schuster Thermo Fisher 31
3 James O. Watkins 24
#4 David S. Yaney Current Technologies 18
#5 Laurie Brewer Human Genome Sciences 16
#6 Michael D. Hall Samsung 13
#6 Walter Allensworth Adaptive Methods 13
#8 Zhong Wu Qiagen Sciences 10
#8 Greg McFall Pearson Education 10
#10 Robert Timothy Edwards Efabless 8
#10 Anders Eklof Motorola 8
#12 Peter Pappano X-Energy 7
#13 Thomas Jagodits Hughes Network Systems 5
#13 Gregory Dean McFall Pearson Education 5
#15 Adam Frazin Airspace Technologies 4
#15 Larry A. Hess Codeon 4
#15 James Haldeman Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission 4
#18 Joseph Buczek Chargepoint 3
#18 Brenda L. Boulter The Nasdaq Stock Market 3
#18 Walter U. Stottlemyer, Jr. 3
#18 Alexey Titovich US Air Force 3
#18 Christin Holt Aquilla Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#18 John A. Craft Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#24 Theodore Pierson The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health And Human Services 2
#24 Matthew S. Hoehler US Dept of Commerce 2
#24 David Onyabe Aeras Global Tb Vaccine Foundation 2
#24 Andrew B. Singleton The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health And Human Services 2
#28 Kathy Sheraw 1
#28 Jack F. Douglas 1
#28 Stuart F. J. LeGrice The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health And Human Services 1
#28 Alan Charles Louis Briacon Interdigital Technology 1
#28 Alyce Zeoli-Jones 1
#28 Maxim Didenko 1
#28 Martin P. Byrne 1
#28 Lauretta Zerelda White 1
#28 Gilbert R. Peake 1
#28 Scott Rafe 1
#28 Keith A. Wozny 1
#28 William E. Garber, Jr. Fusion Lighting 1
#28 Linda Insalaco 1
#28 Joseph P. Slattery Digene 1
#28 Bernard W. Chlop System Development 1
#28 Timothy W. Shorts 1
#28 Stephen J. Treado Illumitech 1
#28 Thomas F. Hoddinott 1
#28 Jeffery Eck Gxs 1
#28 Naveena B. Janakiram University Of Oklahoma 1
#28 Elizabeth Wroth 1
#28 Kurt D. Benkstein George Washington University 1
#28 Colin Park 1

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