Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Beaverton, OR ranks #88 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 1,198 patents from 474 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Beaverton, OR include Intel, Nike, Apple. That works out to 12.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 474 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Ned M. Smith Intel 52
2 Glen J. Anderson Intel 33
3 Robert S. Chau Intel 22
#4 Willy Rachmady Intel 19
#5 Gilbert Dewey Intel 18
#6 Muthaiah Venkatachalam Intel 17
#7 Benjamin Nethongkome Nike 16
#7 Kelin J. Kuhn Intel 16
#9 David M. Durham Intel 14
#9 Caleb W. Dyer Nike 14
#11 Mohan J. Kumar Intel 13
#12 Lenitra M. Durham Intel 11
#12 Qian Li Apple 11
#14 Nate Durflinger Nike 10
#14 Andrew G. V. Oldknow Nike 10
#14 Hari Hampapuram Dexcom 10
#17 Lee Peng Chua Novellus Systems 9
#17 Scott Peterson Google 9
#17 Jason Martin Intel 9
#17 Vincent R. Scarlata Intel 9
#17 Guy M. Therien Intel 9
#17 John B. Halbert Intel 9
#17 Simon P. Johnson Intel 9
#17 Paul E. McKenney IBM 9
#25 Nicole Rendone Nike 8
#25 Kelly A. O'Connor Nike 8
#25 Huimin Chen Intel 8
#25 Mikhail Galeev Isco International 8
#25 Bryant Russell Klug Nike 8
#30 William D. Young Nike 7
#30 Tomas Filler Digimarc 7
#32 Yoshifumi Nishi Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 6
#32 Richmond Hicks Intel 6
#32 Murugasamy K. Nachimuthu Intel 6
#32 Vivian Mong Nike 6
#32 Matthew Julian Thompson Invensense 6
#32 Alexa Manos-Gully Nike 6
#32 Daniel T. Rowe Nike 6
#32 William C. Deleeuw Intel 6
#32 Necati Canpolat Intel 6
#41 Patrick Connor Intel 5
#41 John Mark Elliott Yakima Products 5
#41 Thomas Durand Nike 5
#41 Donald W. Nelson Intel 5
#41 Jianping Wen Avnera 5
#41 Zeshan A. Chishti Intel 5
#41 Men Long Intel 5
#41 Andrew Winfield Nike 5
#41 Thomas Berend Nike 5
#41 Vivek K. De Intel 5

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