Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Bothell, WA ranks #179 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 664 patents from 385 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Bothell, WA include Meta, Amazon, Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated. That works out to 13.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 385 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Nicholas Daniel Trail Meta 11
2 Scott Michael Wilcox Amazon 10
2 Rong Zhou Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated 10
2 Gary L. McKnight Intellectual Ventures 10
#5 Daniel Wade Hitchcock Amazon 9
#5 David P. Finch West Affum Holdings 9
#7 Sridhar Srinivasan Microsoft 8
#8 Bradley J. Mitchell The Boeing 7
#8 Travis J. Vaninetti Brunswick 7
#8 Robert H. Willie The Boeing 7
#11 Samir Hodroj T-Mobile Usa 6
#11 Dale Mayes Ossia 6
#11 Ankit Vora IBM 6
#11 Eashwar Thiagarajan Cypress Semiconductor 6
#15 Krishnan Ananthanarayanan Microsoft 5
#15 Robert Reuben Buchanan West Affum Holdings 5
#15 Feng Zhu Brother Kogyo 5
#15 Samuel F. Harrison The Boeing 5
#15 Bryan D. Scott Microsoft 5
#15 Sudharsan Dhamal Gopalarathnam Dell Products 5
#15 Eamonn Gormley Spectrum Effect 5
#22 Michael Lattanzi AT&T 4
#22 Sander Lam Carnival 4
#22 Kyle Kurtis Hagberg The Boeing 4
#22 Jeffrey Paul Harrang Opanga Networks 4
#22 Rajiv Singh University of Florida 4
#22 Thomas W. Holcomb Microsoft 4
#22 Manivannan Sundaram Amazon 4
#22 Neeraj Chawla Cognitive Scale 4
#22 Eran Erez Sandisk Technologies 4
#22 Huyen Van Nguyen Amazon 4
#22 Gregory M. Santini The Boeing 4
#22 Eric James Black Pivotal Commware 4
#34 Nathan J. Ide Microsoft 3
#34 Paul T. Bridgeman The Boeing 3
#34 Ryan W. Apperson Physio-Control 3
#34 David C. Steinmetz IBM 3
#34 Alex Hay Ekos 3
#34 Jungnam Yun Spectrum Effect 3
#34 Erik Haldi Figpin Collect Awesome 3
#34 Gregory Nieminen Cardiac Dimensions Pty. 3
#34 Hui-Rong Shen A.P. Pharma 3
#34 Parthasarathy Sundararajan Microsoft 3
#34 Ray Bittner Microsoft 3
#34 James W. White Dow Corning 3
#34 Gary M. Buckus The Boeing 3
#34 Marc Mercuri Microsoft 3
#34 Edward A. Kesicki Icos 3
#34 Daniel Williams Figpin Collect Awesome 3
#34 David J. Mifsud General Motors 3

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