Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Vail, AZ ranks #2,134 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,491 patents from 174 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Vail, AZ include IBM, Sony, Texas Instruments. That works out to 109.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 174 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Gregory E. McBride IBM 192
2 Joseph W. Dain IBM 119
3 Leo Pedlow Sony 106
#4 Jason L. Peipelman IBM 103
#5 Howard N. Martin IBM 60
#6 David H. F. Harper IBM 59
#7 Christopher B. Moore IBM 58
#8 George G. Zamora IBM 38
#9 Dimitar T. Trifonov Texas Instruments 37
#9 Igor P. Kovalev Sion Power 37
#11 Kyle B. Dudgeon IBM 28
#12 Timothy F. O'Brien Lear Automotive Dearborn 25
#13 Jorge D. Acuna IBM 20
#14 Michael P. Groover IBM 19
#15 Matthew S. Prucinsky Rain Bird 18
#16 Brian Jeffrey Mueller Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems Limited 16
#17 John O. Crawford RTX (Raytheon) 14
#17 Andreas Bernardus Mattias Koster IBM 14
#17 Michael G. Sisco IBM 14
#20 Errol J. Calder IBM 13
#20 Jennifer S. Shioya IBM 13
#22 Iain Jack 12
#22 Ronald F. Cormier, Jr. Texas Instruments 12
#22 Wayne Y. Lee RTX (Raytheon) 12
#25 Wade Martin Poteet Cdex 11
#25 Michael J. Millius Rain Bird 11
#25 Christopher D. Nicholas Language Technologies 11
#28 David A. Brettell IBM 10
#28 Nathan Henderson 3Com 10
#28 Matthew E. Brooks IBM 10
#28 James P. McNiven Kla-Tencor 10
#32 Eric J. Harris IBM 9
#32 Preston A. Carpenter IBM 9
#34 Emerald J. Adair RTX (Raytheon) 8
#34 Steve Patterson The Boeing 8
#34 Giles D. Jones RTX (Raytheon) 8
#34 Angel E. Delgado IBM 8
#34 Peter J. Drake RTX (Raytheon) 8
#34 Steven M. Kern IBM 8
#40 Alan Camyre Tusimple 7
#40 Michael R. Beylor RTX (Raytheon) 7
#40 Michael P. Copeland IBM 7
#40 Brett Hughes 7
#44 Kevin Button Bell & Howell Mail And Messaging Technologies 6
#44 Steven Brian Hunnicutt Rain Bird 6
#44 Khang N. Nguyen IBM 6
#44 John Joseph Christopher Kopera Sion Power 6
#44 Richard M. Forrest 6
#49 Timothy Shriver Salutaris Medical Devices 5
#49 Jacob Pinello-Benavides RTX (Raytheon) 5

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