Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Reston, VA ranks #736 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 4,585 patents from 864 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Reston, VA include Abl Ip Holding, Prime Research Alliance E, Dish Wireless L.L.C.. That works out to 72.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 864 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 David P. Ramer Abl Ip Holding 186
2 Charles A. Eldering Prime Research Alliance E 185
3 Mehdi Alasti Dish Wireless L.L.C. 104
#4 Don Gunasekara Time Warner Cable 71
#5 Jason Ji Capital One Services 70
#6 Mariam Sorond Dish Wireless L.L.C. 63
#7 Howard Pfeffer Time Warner Cable 59
#8 Jeffrey A. Brown Directv 58
#9 Liming Zhang GE 57
#10 Kenneth Gould Time Warner Cable 53
#11 Matthew Cannon Intuit 52
#12 Timothy L. Robinson Open Invention Network Llc Nc 42
#12 Niels Haering Objectvideo 42
#12 Hui Zhu IBM 42
#15 S. Derek Turner Theravance 40
#15 Paul A. Kline Current Technologies 40
#17 Siamak Ziraknejad Microstrategy Incorporated 37
#18 Zviad Aznaurashvili Capital One Services 35
#19 Jeremy Rephlo Capital One Services 34
#19 Allan M. Weinstein Harrington Arthritis Research Center 34
#21 Andrew Fregly Verisign 31
#22 Ben Feldman Prototype Productions Incorporated Ventures Two 30
#22 Michael P. Hammer Cisco 30
#24 Kenneth Gould Time Warner Cable, A Division Of Time Warner Entertainment Company 29
#24 David Brian Lennon Amazon 29
#26 Daniel J. Rope IBM 28
#27 Chih-Hao Ho Mpi 27
#28 Gerald E. Battist Fuisz Technologies 26
#28 David Arsenault Autodesk 26
#30 Sounil Yu Bank of America 25
#30 Robert D. Varrin, Jr. Dominion Engineering 25
#32 John Shelly Bowling, II Halliburton Energy Services 24
#33 Mark Welton ExxonMobil 23
#34 David W. Raymond National Technology & Engineering Solutions Of Sandia 22
#34 Robert Lawson-Shanks Lifefuels 22
#34 Gregory S. Pass Aol 22
#34 John Seaman Bemis Manufacturing 22
#38 Walter Y. Chen Texas Instruments 21
#38 Theodore Markson Capital One Services 21
#40 Francine J. Prokoski Mikos 20
#40 Mehmet Ozgur Corporation For National Research Initiatives 20
#42 Guan-Bo Lin Abl Ip Holding 19
#42 Robert Moffatt Etherdyne Technologies 19
#42 Paul-André Raymond Dish Wireless L.L.C. 19
#42 Erick O. Schonstedt Schonstedt Instrument 19
#46 Jing Qu Sprint Spectrum 18
#46 Marc Mansour Immunovaccine Technologies 18
#46 Akos Vertes George Washington University 18
#49 Benjamin F. Feldman T-Worx Holdings 17
#49 Thu Rein Kyaw Aol 17

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