Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Bothell, WA ranks #193 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 603 patents from 364 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Bothell, WA include Intellectual Ventures, Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Microsoft. That works out to 12.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 364 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Gary L. McKnight Intellectual Ventures 12
2 Rong Zhou Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated 10
2 Sridhar Srinivasan Microsoft 10
#4 Eugene A. Dan-Jumbo The Boeing 9
#5 Eamonn Gormley Spectrum Effect 8
#5 Daniel Wade Hitchcock Amazon 8
#7 David P. Finch West Affum Holdings 7
#7 Justin O. Pietsch Amazon 7
#9 Kapil Pruthi Bank of America 6
#9 Christopher J. Donley Cable Television Laboratories 6
#9 Rajiv Singh University of Florida 6
#12 Ramakoti Reddy Bhimanadhuni American Megatrends 5
#12 Charles R. Bragg Leviton Manufacturing Co. 5
#12 Billy R. Anders, JR. Microsoft 5
#12 Thomas W. Holcomb Microsoft 5
#12 Peter L. Sazani Sarepta Therapeutics 5
#12 Christopher J. Lefelhocz Amazon 5
#12 Paul Thompson Telecommunication Systems 5
#12 Neil Cueto Microsoft 5
#12 James McClellan Corey Amazon 5
#21 Mark G. Kupferschmidt IBM 4
#21 Bradley J. Mitchell The Boeing 4
#21 Chaz Immendorf Eden Rock Communications 4
#21 Patrick Burke Seattle Genetics 4
#21 Vladimir A. Kuksa Acucela 4
#21 Feng Zhu Brother Kogyo 4
#21 Eran Erez Sandisk Technologies 4
#21 Guohua Li Sony 4
#21 Nathan J. Ide Microsoft 4
#30 Ankit Vora IBM 3
#30 Parthasarathy Govindarajen Microsoft 3
#30 Nils A. Sundelin Microsoft 3
#30 Robert Reuben Buchanan West Affum Holdings 3
#30 Gennaro Castelli Alstom Technology 3
#30 James G. Cavalaris Microsoft 3
#30 Sudharsan Dhamal Gopalarathnam Dell Products 3
#30 Steve Rabin Nintendo Co. 3
#30 Bryan D. Scott Microsoft 3
#30 William J. Carpenter IBM 3
#30 Gregory Nieminen Cardiac Dimensions Pty. 3
#30 Michael Quinn Howard Alstom Technology 3
#30 Marcus K. Richardson The Boeing 3
#30 Youssef Barakat Microsoft 3
#30 Luis Eduardo Cabrera-Cordon Microsoft 3
#30 Brian E. King Microsoft 3
#30 Jeffrey Paul Harrang Opanga Networks 3
#30 Dallas Eugene Meeker West Affum Holdings 3
#30 Bhagwan Khanka Sprint Spectrum 3
#30 Olumuyiwa M. Durojaiye Microsoft 3
#50 Kevin Brown Google 2

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