Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Redmond, WA ranks #30 worldwide for total patents filed in 2020, with 3,683 patents from 1,926 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Redmond, WA include Intellectual Ventures, Microsoft, Ai Incorporated. That works out to 50.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,926 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Roderick A. Hyde Intellectual Ventures 64
2 Raymond Kirk Price Microsoft 33
3 Chen Zhang Ai Incorporated 29
#4 Cliff Chiang Masco Corporation Of Indiana 24
#5 Hee Yoon Lee Meta 23
#6 Scott Charles McEldowney Meta 20
#7 Giuseppe Calafiore Meta 19
#8 Jesper Mikael Johansson Amazon 18
#8 Jian Xu Foxconn 18
#10 David R. Perek Meta 16
#11 Darren Ernest Canavor Amazon 15
#12 Dexin Kong IBM 14
#12 John R. Hull The Boeing 14
#14 Erie Lai Har Lau AT&T 13
#14 Sudhir K. Satpathy Intel 13
#14 Qi Qu Meta 13
#14 Alexandru Balan Microsoft 13
#18 Vivek Narasayya Microsoft 12
#18 James Ronald Bonar Meta 12
#18 Raymond King Meta 12
#21 Andrew Lovitt Meta 11
#21 Tie-Yan Liu Microsoft 11
#21 Qing Chao Meta 11
#24 Ruhi Sarikaya Microsoft 10
#24 Kris Ganjam Microsoft 10
#24 Ning Lu IBM 10
#24 Fenglin Peng Meta 10
#28 Gerald Dale Morrison Sigmasense, Llc. 9
#28 Kenneth Liam KIEMELE Microsoft 9
#28 Steven Bathiche Microsoft 9
#28 Sata Busayarat Home Box Office 9
#28 Stephane Taine Meta 9
#28 Yijing Fu Meta 9
#28 Shahil Soni Microsoft 9
#35 Asif Hussain Apple 8
#35 Ningfeng Huang Meta 8
#35 Yeye He Microsoft 8
#35 Aaron Schmitz Microsoft 8
#35 Ivan Nevraev Microsoft 8
#35 Hong Hue Tat The Boeing 8
#35 Sandeep Kanumuri Microsoft 8
#35 Gregg Wygonik Microsoft 8
#35 Hari R. Pulapaka Microsoft 8
#35 Shai Guday Microsoft 8
#35 Minya Liang USAA 8
#35 David Justin Ross Alitheon 8
#47 Luke St. Clair Meta 7
#47 Steven John Robbins Microsoft 7
#47 Brandon T. Hunt Microsoft 7
#47 Yang Chen Microsoft 7

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