Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Sterling, VA ranks #1,777 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,867 patents from 444 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Sterling, VA include Commscope Technologies, Sprint Spectrum, Hillcrest Laboratories. That works out to 61.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 444 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Khalid W. Al-Mufti Commscope Technologies 54
2 Pratik Kothari Sprint Spectrum 53
3 Charles W. K. Gritton Hillcrest Laboratories 52
#4 Ariful Hannan Commscope Technologies 46
#5 Li Yu Avigilon Fortress 41
#6 Brian Pugh Comscore 34
#6 Loren Looger Howard Hughes Medical Institute 34
#8 Mark D. Carney Verizon 33
#9 Ronald Bonica Juniper Networks 32
#10 Michael Foster Honeywell 31
#11 Warren Scott Wainner Cisco 29
#11 David Klein Dhk Storage 29
#13 Dean Ballew 28
#14 Niem Dang Time Warner Cable 24
#15 Justin Uberti Google 22
#15 Bruce H. DeWoolfson Environmental Products 22
#17 Nathan Evans Broadcom 19
#18 Mahendra Jain The Michigan Biotechnology Institute 17
#18 Patrick Harders 17
#18 Andrew Simpson Verisign 17
#21 Robert D. Pierce US Air Force 16
#21 Alexander D. Holmes Verisign 16
#21 Christian Cantrell Adobe 16
#24 Rodney Lance Joffe Neustar 15
#24 Mladen Barbic Caltech 15
#26 Patrick D. Blattner Microsoft 14
#26 Leo J. Thompson Scientific-Atlanta 14
#26 Christine N. Chang Sassy Woof 14
#26 Craig Thomas Hill Cisco 14
#30 Dalton Pont Coresyte 13
#31 Matthew Walnock Ol Security Limited Liability 12
#31 Deborah Boles Canon 12
#31 Kenneth Cunningham Stanford Telecommunications 12
#34 Alexander V. Roup Vehicle Control Technologies 11
#34 Alexander Jacob Schultz Abl Ip Holding 11
#34 Mark Taylor Bede Scientific Instruments 11
#34 Manisha Bhat Somos 11
#34 Robert James Burns Microsoft 11
#34 Khaled Azem Sprint Spectrum 11
#34 Bret Jutras Alarm.Com Incorporated 11
#34 Robert Huff Intel 11
#42 Gregory S. Keller Isolagen Technologies 10
#42 Kevin J. Arunski Emc Ip Holding Company 10
#42 Robert J. Schubert 3M 10
#42 John L. Immordino Fortinet 10
#42 Manu Shukla Omniscience 10
#42 Kyle Tailor Akers Amazon 10
#42 Christopher Armstrong Aol 10
#42 Nikhil Gagvani Check Video 10
#50 Yohanes Santoso Amazon 9

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