Oregon ranks #14 among US states for total patents filed in 2017, with 10,606 patents from 4,319 inventors across 139 cities. On a per-capita basis that is 2.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a standard benchmark for comparing state-level R&D intensity.
Top Cities in Oregon 2017
| Rank | City | Patents | Inventors |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Portland, OR | 5,084 | 1,767 |
| #2 | Beaverton, OR | 1,422 | 539 |
| #3 | Hillsboro, OR | 1,040 | 457 |
| #4 | Corvallis, OR | 502 | 249 |
| #5 | Lake Oswego, OR | 308 | 127 |
| #6 | Tigard, OR | 246 | 96 |
| #7 | Eugene, OR | 226 | 131 |
| #8 | West Linn, OR | 211 | 81 |
| #9 | Bend, OR | 147 | 91 |
| #10 | Sherwood, OR | 144 | 56 |
| #11 | Tualatin, OR | 95 | 39 |
| #12 | Wilsonville, OR | 82 | 52 |
| #13 | Salem, OR | 76 | 40 |
| #14 | Albany, OR | 65 | 44 |
| #15 | Newberg, OR | 60 | 31 |
| #16 | Gresham, OR | 55 | 14 |
| #17 | Oregon City, OR | 48 | 29 |
| #18 | North Plains, OR | 48 | 16 |
| #19 | Milwaukie, OR | 34 | 29 |
| #20 | Ashland, OR | 34 | 24 |
| #21 | Forest Grove, OR | 34 | 23 |
| #22 | Happy Valley, OR | 33 | 21 |
| #23 | Springfield, OR | 26 | 17 |
| #24 | Klamath Falls, OR | 24 | 8 |
| #25 | Jacksonville, OR | 24 | 3 |
Top Inventors in Oregon 2017
| Rank | Inventor | City | Company | Patents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dae Won Lee | Portland | LG | 61 |
| 2 | Robert S. Chau | Beaverton | Intel | 58 |
| 3 | Ravi Pillarisetty | Portland | Intel | 39 |
| #4 | Marko Radosavljevic | Portland | Intel | 38 |
| #4 | Kai-Li Jiang | Corvallis | Foxconn | 38 |
| #4 | Jack T. Kavalieros | Portland | Intel | 38 |
| #4 | Thomas J. Kenney | Portland | Intel | 38 |
| #8 | Ned M. Smith | Beaverton | Intel | 37 |
| #8 | Robert J. Stacey | Portland | Intel | 37 |
| #10 | Carlos Cordeiro | Portland | Intel | 36 |
| #11 | Rath Vannithamby | Portland | Intel | 34 |
| #12 | Benjamin Chu-Kung | Portland | Intel | 32 |
| #13 | Xiaogang Chen | Portland | Intel | 31 |
| #14 | Jeffrey P. Gambino | Gresham | IBM | 30 |
| #14 | Puneet Jain | Hillsboro | Intel | 30 |
| #14 | Muthaiah Venkatachalam | Beaverton | Intel | 30 |
| #17 | Guillaume Bouche | Portland | Globalfoundries | 26 |
| #18 | Kohei Kanata | Portland | Nike | 25 |
| #19 | Benjamin Nethongkome | Beaverton | Nike | 24 |
| #19 | Rob Darmour | Portland | Nike | 24 |
| #21 | Han Wui Then | Portland | Intel | 23 |
| #21 | Gilbert Dewey | Beaverton | Intel | 23 |
| #23 | Matthew V. Metz | Portland | Intel | 22 |
| #23 | TaeYong Lee | Sherwood | Nike | 22 |
| #23 | Jeongwoo Lee | Portland | Nike | 22 |