Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Redmond, WA ranks #29 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 3,134 patents from 1,560 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Redmond, WA include Intellectual Ventures, Microsoft, Amazon. That works out to 42.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,560 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Roderick A. Hyde Intellectual Ventures 244
2 David Hose Microsoft 24
3 Steven Bathiche Microsoft 23
#4 Alex Malkiewicz Microsoft 21
#4 Mike Lajoie Microsoft 21
#6 Oscar E. Murillo Microsoft 20
#6 Matthew Hartman Microsoft 20
#8 Jesper Mikael Johansson Amazon 19
#9 Sriram Sankar Meta 16
#10 Cyrus Kanga Microsoft 13
#10 MacBeth Watson Microsoft 13
#10 Darren Ernest Canavor Amazon 13
#10 Atul Puri AT&T 13
#14 DeWayne Allan Sennett AT&T 12
#14 Robert Ward Massa Microsoft 12
#14 Uday Savagaonkar Intel 12
#14 Jaclyn Carley Knapp Microsoft 12
#14 Brandon T. Hunt Microsoft 12
#19 Brian Ralphs Microsoft 11
#19 Rod G. Fleck Microsoft 11
#21 Shai Guday Microsoft 10
#22 Spring Pumphrey Microsoft 9
#22 Cameron Brown Microsoft 9
#22 Abdul Kabbani Google 9
#22 Paul Henry Dietz Microsoft 9
#26 Rita Yu Microsoft 8
#26 Laura K. Massey Microsoft 8
#26 Sudhir K. Satpathy Intel 8
#26 Raman K. Sarin Microsoft 8
#26 Albert Greenberg Microsoft 8
#26 Andrew Moroney Microsoft 8
#32 Stephen L. Malaska Intellectual Ventures 7
#32 Ruhi Sarikaya Microsoft 7
#32 Laura Marie Gustavson West Affum Holdings 7
#32 Silvana Patricia Moncayo Microsoft 7
#32 Leonardo E. Blanco Microsoft 7
#32 Weifeng Chen Tencent 7
#32 Sandeep Kanumuri Microsoft 7
#32 Michael C. Fanning Microsoft 7
#32 Andrew G. Kegel AMD 7
#32 Peter Oehler Microsoft 7
#32 Benjamin Perry Microsoft 7
#32 Jan-Kristian Markiewicz Microsoft 7
#44 Kristie Joy Fisher Microsoft 6
#44 Jason Nelson Microsoft 6
#44 Luke St. Clair Meta 6
#44 Jonathan Steed Microsoft 6
#44 Thomas H. Taylor Google 6
#44 Ning Lu IBM 6
#44 Hayley Lynn Steplyk Microsoft 6

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