Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Virginia Beach, VA ranks #1,087 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 3,126 patents from 992 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Virginia Beach, VA include Sentry Solutions Products Group, Cephalon, Lifenet Health. That works out to 6.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 992 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Eric M. Yeates Sentry Solutions Products Group 94
2 Robert L. Hudkins Cephalon 77
3 Jingsong Chen Lifenet Health 45
#4 Johnny E. Swan S&S Precision 37
#5 Thomas A. Marx Alliant Techsystems 35
#6 Andrew C. Borland S&S Precision 33
#6 Jeremy Levin Digital Global Systems 33
#6 David A. Arias Swimways 33
#6 Stephen Francis Taylor The Taylor Group 33
#10 Stephen P. Hines Eastman Kodak 32
#10 Silvia Chen Lifenet Health 32
#12 Thomas Scott Morgan Management Services Group 30
#13 William-Joseph Basan Elizalde S&S Precision 26
#14 Kevin Larry Nelson Panduit 25
#14 Hilliary Kopp Globus Medical 25
#16 James A. Wynn, Jr. Siemens Vdo Automotive Ag 22
#16 Frederick W. Storms, Jr. Sentry Solutions Products Group 22
#16 David H. McDaniel Light Bioscience 22
#16 Guerry L. Grune Mitsubishi Chemical America 22
#20 Richard Wood NASA 21
#21 Xiaofei Qin Lifenet Health 20
#21 Billy G. Anderson Lifenet 20
#21 Mark Evans Alexion Pharmaceuticals 20
#24 Dennis Phelps Lifenet Health 18
#24 Gueorgui M. Mihaylov Apple 18
#26 James Clagett Lifenet Health 17
#26 William Mark Hogan Fmh Conveyors 17
#28 James H. Cohen Siemens Automotive 16
#28 William G. Sykes 16
#28 William H. Simon Howmedica Osteonics 16
#31 Albert C. Grippo Bg Soflex 15
#32 Gary James Humphries Homewav 14
#32 Patrick Keller East Carolina University 14
#32 Jason Jackson Open Text 14
#32 Michael M. Noell Blackhawk Industries 14
#32 Michael Francis Lifenet Health 14
#37 Blair Cole Fackler Gbrs Group 13
#38 John Vernon Droneup 12
#39 Andy Pritchard Lifenet Health 11
#39 Robert J. Galway US Air Force 11
#39 Robert A. Gaylord Agio International Company, Limited 11
#39 Elias A. Zerhouni Johnson & Johnson 11
#39 Charles Bott Hampton Roads Sanitation District 11
#39 Victor Joseph Oppleman Packet Forensics 11
#45 Anne Gresock Blackhawk Industries 10
#45 Steven C. Brown Lennox Industries 10
#45 Richard C. Dickerson Ecolochem 10
#45 Richard L. Prass Cleveland Clinic 10
#45 Russell D. Smith Kennecott Holdings 10
#45 Garth S. Jones Molex 10

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