Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Spokane, WA ranks #910 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 140 patents from 76 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Spokane, WA include Dow Agrosciences, Zonar Systems, Amazon. That works out to 0.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 76 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 James M. Renga Dow Agrosciences 12
2 Bryan Hunt Zonar Systems 8
3 John William Eichelberg Amazon 7
#4 Marc Chapin Sterling International 6
#5 Brian D. Nelson Medtronic 4
#5 David Knaggs Telect 4
#5 Mark Webb Stardiamond, Llc. 4
#8 David S. Thompson Xtek 3
#8 Robert J. Hagarty Randl Industries 3
#8 Patrick O. Tennican Hyprotek 3
#8 James Patrick Ogle Itron 3
#8 Paul Ernsdorff Trapeze Software Ulc 3
#13 Dan C. Cummings 2
#13 Antoine G. Tohmeh Nuvasive 2
#13 Mark K. Cornwall Itron 2
#13 Ronald E. Dolar 2
#13 Douglas I. Taylor Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories 2
#13 Wade A. F. Maple Zak Designs 2
#13 Alon S. Aharon University Hospitals Of Cleveland 2
#13 Marcus Da Silva Tektronix 2
#13 Trena Larissa Repp Alk-Abelló A/S 2
#13 Michael Glavin Exxel Outdoors 2
#13 Craig T. Grass Alk-Abelló A/S 2
#13 David Rowles Alk-Abelló A/S 2
#13 Russell D. Marshall 2
#13 William G. McCoy Optiva 2
#13 Praveen Mehrotra Xr Communications 2
#13 Dylan Gray Trapeze Software Ulc 2
#29 Kim Arthur Hemphill Unknown 1
#29 Thomas Raymond Rodgers Spokane Industries 1
#29 Michael R. Pinter Honeywell 1
#29 Arun Sehgal Itron 1
#29 Ronald E. Wyrick Washington Biotech 1
#29 Fred Dunham 1
#29 Shiblihanna I. Bayuuk 1
#29 Geoffrey Franklin Gustafson Unknown 1
#29 Larry Andrews 1
#29 Steve DANZIG 1
#29 Roger C. Roen 1
#29 Scott A. Spink Relion 1
#29 David R. Lott Relion 1
#29 Johnathan R. W. Ammerman National Instruments 1
#29 Richard S. Bruski Alcan International Limited 1
#29 Brad Lee Telin Synaptics Incorporated 1
#29 John Fisher Bloom Energy 1
#29 Scott K. Parrish Platte Chemical 1
#29 Michael D. Payton Honeywell 1
#29 Rodney D. Raabe Covidien Lp 1
#29 Saeed Z. Anwar Fieldcast 1
#29 Sergey Petrovich Tsyukalo 1

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