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Seattle, WA 2019

9,433 patents  ·  4,728 inventors  ·  12.8/1k pop.

Ranked #8 of 44,084 cities Top 1%

Seattle, WA ranks #8 worldwide for total patents filed in 2019, with 9,433 patents from 4,728 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Seattle, WA include The Invention Science Fund I, Amazon, Magic Leap. That works out to 12.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 4,728 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Mark A. Malamud The Invention Science Fund I 56
2 Gregory Branchek Roth Amazon 55
3 Brian T. Schowengerdt Magic Leap 46
#4 Elizabeth A. Sweeney The Invention Science Fund I 41
#5 Marc John Brooker Amazon 37
#6 Pragyana K. Mishra Amazon 29
#7 Tristan Thomas Trutna Meta 27
#8 Jon Arron McClintock Amazon 25
#9 Nicholas Alexander Allen Amazon 24
#10 James Christopher Sorenson, III Amazon 21
#11 Peter Wesley Bristol Meta 20
#12 Douglas S. McNair Oracle 19
#12 Michael Bleyer Microsoft 19
#12 David R. Richardson Amazon 19
#15 Swaminathan Sivasubramanian Amazon 17
#15 Danny Wei Amazon 17
#15 Robert C. Petroski Intellectual Ventures 17
#15 Faraón Torres The Boeing 17
#15 Andrew D. Wilson Microsoft 17
#15 Hayden S. Osborn The Boeing 17
#21 Ciro J. Grijalva, III The Boeing 16
#21 Charles Shearer Dorner Amazon 16
#21 Samuel James McKelvie Amazon 16
#24 H. Sprague Ackley Intermec Ip 15
#24 Fred Bould Google 15
#24 John Latham Alderbio Holdings 15
#24 Gregory Alan Rubin Amazon 15
#24 Martin Peter Aalund Amazon 15
#24 Alexander Remley Katko Pivotal Commware 15
#30 Stefan Richter Amazon 14
#30 Marc R. Matsen The Boeing 14
#30 Hilliard Bruce Siegel Amazon 14
#33 Hrvoje Benko Microsoft 13
#33 Benjamin H. Dutzar Alderbio Holdings 13
#33 Barry James O'Brien Amazon 13
#33 Melroy Machado The Invention Science Fund I 13
#33 Ricky Dean Welsh Amazon 13
#38 Shan E. Gaw Magnolia Medical Technologies 12
#38 David Craig Yanacek Amazon 12
#38 Timothy Allen Wagner Amazon 12
#41 Marc Joliveau Amazon 11
#41 Colin Laird Lazier Amazon 11
#41 Yi-Ting Chen Honda Motor Co. 11
#41 Jesse Wheeler Moore Amazon 11
#41 Dushyant Goyal Amazon 11
#41 Jonathan I. Turow Amazon 11
#41 Dilip Kumar Amazon 11
#41 Christopher Magee Greenwood Amazon 11
#41 Elya Shechtman Adobe 11
#41 Jeffrey Ladwig Water Pik 11

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