Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Silver Spring, MD ranks #447 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 7,295 patents from 1,812 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Silver Spring, MD include Capital One Services, Kofax, The Nielsen Company (Us). That works out to 90.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,812 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Bryant Yee Capital One Services 91
2 Jan W. Amtrup Kofax 78
2 Alan Neuhauser The Nielsen Company (Us) 78
#4 Eric C. Haseltine Disney 72
#5 Kenneth A. Jacobson US Dept of Health & Human Services 62
#6 Jeffrey M. Sieracki Medtronic 53
#7 Ronald D. Stouffer Bowles Fluidics 49
#7 James D. Lilly Cpg Technologies 49
#7 Richard C. Levy Rose America 49
#10 Timur Sherif Capital One Services 44
#11 Nathan Bluzer Westinghouse Electric 43
#12 Barry M. Graham IBM 41
#13 Beth A. Burnside Shire Laboratories 39
#14 Alan Sloma Novo Nordisk Biotech 38
#15 James Mond Biosynexus Incorporated 37
#15 David Berman IBM 37
#17 Irah H. Donner 35
#17 Horst G. Adolph US Air Force 35
#19 Shahid N. Shah Netspective Communications 34
#20 Nicholas Lagakos US Air Force 33
#21 Robert S. Howell 32
#21 Michael Ball Micron 32
#21 David Goldschlag Mcafee 32
#24 Robert S. Ledley National Biomedical Research Foundation 31
#24 Andrew Lees Henry M. Jackson Foundation For The Advancement Of Military Medicine 31
#24 Ursula Buchholz The United States Of America, As Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health And Human Services 31
#27 Robert E. Morris Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories 30
#27 Ming Li 30
#29 Martin C. Peckerar US Air Force 29
#29 George Mon US Army 29
#31 Tadeusz M. Drzewiecki US Army 28
#31 William J. Siegel Pace 28
#33 Peter C. Chaconas Black & Decker 26
#33 Koichiro Takamizawa Smartsky Networks 26
#33 Sudersan M. Tuladhar United Therapeutics 26
#33 Richard D. Murphy RTX (Raytheon) 26
#37 Christopher C. Broder Henry M. Jackson Foundation For The Advancement Of Military Medicine 25
#37 Carl Stevens Meso Scale Technologies, Llc. 25
#37 Ryan Mark Speers Ionic Security 25
#40 Stephen R. Schmidt W.R. Grace & Co.-Conn. 24
#40 Scott A. Piper IBM 24
#40 Andrew W. Jacobs Microsoft 24
#40 Murat V. Kalayoglu Topokine Therapeutics 24
#40 Andrew D'Souza Openet Telecom 24
#45 Derek A. Tidman Gt-Devices 23
#45 Harold A. Gell, Jr. Sea Fathoms Industries 23
#45 Lawrence Blas Perez Novartis Ag 23
#45 Samir N. Khleif Augusta University Research Institute 23
#45 Theodore A. Litovitz Catholic University Of America 23
#50 Bryan A. Cook Idhl Holdings 22

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