Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Bothell, WA ranks #174 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 709 patents from 400 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Bothell, WA include Intellectual Ventures, Amazon, West Affum Holdings. That works out to 14.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 400 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Gary L. McKnight Intellectual Ventures 14
2 Daniel Wade Hitchcock Amazon 13
3 David P. Finch West Affum Holdings 10
3 Eamonn Gormley Spectrum Effect 10
#5 Narasimha Rao Lakkakula Amazon 9
#6 Feng Zhu Brother Kogyo 8
#7 Billy R. Anders, JR. Microsoft 7
#8 William Banning Vail, III Smart Drilling And Completion 6
#8 Christopher J. Donley Cable Television Laboratories 6
#8 Patrick Burke Seattle Genetics 6
#8 Rekha Menon Spectrum Effect 6
#8 Travis J. Vaninetti Brunswick 6
#8 Ankit Vora IBM 6
#14 Jungnam Yun Spectrum Effect 5
#14 Eran Erez Sandisk Technologies 5
#14 Robert Kamil Bryll Mitutoyo 5
#14 Sridhar Srinivasan Microsoft 5
#14 Bryan D. Scott Microsoft 5
#14 Scott Michael Wilcox Amazon 5
#14 Robert H. Willie The Boeing 5
#14 Rong Zhou Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated 5
#14 Eashwar Thiagarajan Cypress Semiconductor 5
#14 James McClellan Corey Amazon 5
#24 Gregory Nieminen Cardiac Dimensions Pty. 4
#24 Eric Davis Moment 4
#24 Chaz Immendorf Eden Rock Communications 4
#24 Michael Lattanzi AT&T 4
#24 Justin O. Pietsch Amazon 4
#24 Bradley J. Mitchell The Boeing 4
#24 Kapil Pruthi Bank of America 4
#24 Leonard Thomas Tracy Oracle 4
#24 Nicholas Daniel Trail Meta 4
#24 Sovann Song Crane Electronics 4
#24 Mehmet Akcin Microsoft 4
#24 Jackson Davis Microsoft 4
#24 Katsumi Take Microsoft 4
#24 David A. Dion Microsoft 4
#24 Charles R. Bragg Leviton Manufacturing Co. 4
#39 Django Sussman Seattle Genetics 3
#39 Olumuyiwa M. Durojaiye Microsoft 3
#39 Jeffrey A. Wilkerson The Boeing 3
#39 Ramakoti Reddy Bhimanadhuni American Megatrends 3
#39 Dallas Eugene Meeker West Affum Holdings 3
#39 Jeffrey Paul Harrang Opanga Networks 3
#39 Justin Honshune Lan The Boeing 3
#39 Fadi M. Hanna Microsoft 3
#39 Radhika Tamvada Google 3
#39 David Gallup Google 3
#39 Marcus K. Richardson The Boeing 3
#39 Gerardo Castillo Pharmain 3

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