Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Beaverton, OR ranks #84 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 1,181 patents from 468 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Beaverton, OR include Intel, Nike, IBM. That works out to 12.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 468 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Robert S. Chau Intel 25
2 Mohan J. Kumar Intel 21
3 Andrew G. V. Oldknow Nike 20
#4 Ned M. Smith Intel 19
#5 Gilbert Dewey Intel 17
#5 Muthaiah Venkatachalam Intel 17
#5 Mark Rawlins Nike 17
#8 Glen J. Anderson Intel 16
#9 Paul E. McKenney IBM 14
#9 Willy Rachmady Intel 14
#11 David M. Durham Intel 13
#11 Bruce Huffa Nike 13
#11 Vincent R. Scarlata Intel 13
#14 Kelin J. Kuhn Intel 11
#14 Dmitri E. Nikonov Intel 11
#16 Victor B. Lortz Intel 10
#17 Paul Shead Daimler Ag 9
#17 Arthur Molinari Nike 9
#19 Mark Bohr Intel 8
#19 Murugasamy K. Nachimuthu Intel 8
#19 Kent C. Lusted Intel 8
#19 John B. Halbert Intel 8
#19 Nicholas A. Leech Nike 8
#19 Kevin Lin Intel 8
#19 David L. Kencke Intel 8
#26 Scott Peterson Google 7
#26 Simon P. Johnson Intel 7
#26 Vincent F. White Nike 7
#26 Stephen H. Gunther Intel 7
#26 Benjamin Nethongkome Nike 7
#26 Necati Canpolat Intel 7
#32 Oliver McLachlan Nike 6
#32 Alan Robert MacDougall 6
#32 David P. Jones Nike 6
#32 Mark MacDonald Intel 6
#32 Cory J. Booth Intel 6
#32 James Y. Yoo Nike 6
#32 Jaejin Lee Samsung 6
#32 Jason Martin Intel 6
#32 Jeff Ingram Nike 6
#32 Duck Young Kong Steelcase 6
#32 Purushottam Goel Intel 6
#32 Suman Datta Intel 6
#32 Hari Hampapuram Dexcom 6
#32 Men Long Intel 6
#32 Vivek K. De Intel 6
#32 Thomas Berend Nike 6
#48 Douglas A. Beye Nike 5
#48 Matthew Julian Thompson Invensense 5
#48 Harish Krishnamurthy Intel 5

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