Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Seattle, WA ranks #8 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 7,597 patents from 3,993 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Seattle, WA include Amazon, The Invention Science Fund I, Intellectual Ventures. That works out to 10.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 3,993 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Gregory Branchek Roth Amazon 61
2 Mark A. Malamud The Invention Science Fund I 54
3 Elizabeth A. Sweeney The Invention Science Fund I 38
#4 Jon Arron McClintock Amazon 30
#5 Robert C. Petroski Intellectual Ventures 29
#6 Peter Wesley Bristol Meta 24
#7 Gregory Alan Rubin Amazon 21
#8 Colin Laird Lazier Amazon 20
#8 James Christopher Sorenson, III Amazon 20
#10 Bryan James Donlan Amazon 19
#10 David R. Richardson Amazon 19
#12 Daniel Buchmueller Amazon 18
#12 Jesse R. Cheatham, III Intellectual Ventures 18
#14 Marc John Brooker Amazon 17
#14 John Nicholas Jitkoff Google 17
#14 Swaminathan Sivasubramanian Amazon 17
#17 Fred Bould Google 16
#17 Paul David Franklin Amazon 16
#19 Consuelo M. Blosch Shire-Nps Pharmaceuticals 15
#19 Nicholas Alexander Allen Amazon 15
#19 Jeffrey Ladwig Water Pik 15
#19 Marc R. Matsen The Boeing 15
#19 Charles Shearer Dorner Amazon 15
#24 John Latham Alderbio Holdings 14
#25 Timothy Allen Wagner Amazon 13
#25 Joseph Patrick Sullivan Meta 13
#25 Wesley Scott Lauka Amazon 13
#25 Jue Wang Adobe 13
#25 Jinwon Lee LG 13
#25 Jacob D. Silsby Pacific Market International 13
#25 Elya Shechtman Adobe 13
#25 Richard G. Patton Magnolia Medical Technologies 13
#33 Brock Robert Gardner Amazon 12
#33 Andrew D. Wilson Microsoft 12
#33 James R. Hamilton Amazon 12
#33 Colm MacCarthaigh Amazon 12
#33 Tristan Thomas Trutna Meta 12
#33 Yi-yaun Chen Meta 12
#33 Barry James O'Brien Amazon 12
#40 Louis LeRoi LeGrand, III Amazon 11
#40 Kenneth D. Ray Sophos Limited 11
#40 Zane Bowman Allen Miller L'Oreal 11
#40 Brian T. Schowengerdt Magic Leap 11
#40 Leo Baldwin Amazon 11
#40 Jonathan A. Jenkins Amazon 11
#40 Andrew Stubbs Amazon 11
#40 Michael P. Czamara Amazon 11
#48 Aaron Michael Donsbach Google 10
#48 Jeffrey D. Carnevali National Products 10
#48 Christopher Charles Young Intellectual Ventures 10

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