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Seattle, WA 2020

9,054 patents  ·  4,747 inventors  ·  12.3/1k pop.

Ranked #9 of 44,574 cities Top 1%

Seattle, WA ranks #9 worldwide for total patents filed in 2020, with 9,054 patents from 4,747 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Seattle, WA include Snowflake, Berkshire Grey Operating Company, Magic Leap. That works out to 12.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 4,747 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Benoit Dageville Snowflake 37
2 Siddhartha Srinivasa Berkshire Grey Operating Company 35
3 Brian T. Schowengerdt Magic Leap 31
3 Tristan Thomas Trutna Meta 31
3 Gregory Branchek Roth Amazon 31
#6 Marc John Brooker Amazon 28
#7 Michael Bleyer Microsoft 26
#8 Douglas S. McNair Oracle 24
#8 Elizabeth A. Sweeney The Invention Science Fund I 24
#10 Pragyana K. Mishra Amazon 23
#10 Nicholas Alexander Allen Amazon 23
#10 Mark A. Malamud The Invention Science Fund I 23
#10 Swaminathan Sivasubramanian Amazon 23
#14 Ming Shan Kwok T-Mobile Usa 19
#14 Kenneth D. Ray Sophos Limited 19
#16 Colin Laird Lazier Amazon 18
#17 Timothy Allen Wagner Amazon 16
#17 H. Sprague Ackley Intermec Ip 16
#17 Philip Robinson Meta 16
#17 Christian Holz Microsoft 16
#17 Elya Shechtman Adobe 16
#17 Libin Jiang Qualcomm 16
#17 Marc R. Matsen The Boeing 16
#24 Christopher Magee Greenwood Amazon 15
#25 Gregory Alan Rubin Amazon 14
#25 John Nicholas Jitkoff Google 14
#25 Oliver Wang Adobe 14
#25 David R. Richardson Amazon 14
#25 Brian Lewis Piper Pioneer Square Brands 14
#30 Daniel Cohn Amazon 13
#30 Jon Arron McClintock Amazon 13
#30 Ravish Mehra Meta 13
#30 Timothy Andrew Rath Amazon 13
#30 Alexander Jobe Fix Meta 13
#30 Danny Wei Amazon 13
#30 Ricky Dean Welsh Amazon 13
#30 Martin Hentschel Snowflake 13
#38 Michael P. Czamara Amazon 12
#38 Gang Zhang Qualcomm 12
#38 Paul David Franklin Amazon 12
#38 Richard Andrew Newcombe Meta 12
#38 Samuel James McKelvie Amazon 12
#38 Austin Rand Porter Microsoft 12
#38 James Christopher Sorenson, III Amazon 12
#45 Gaurav D. Ghare Amazon 11
#45 Jason Thomas Faulkner Microsoft 11
#45 Timothy M. Mitchell The Boeing 11
#45 Tate Andrew Certain Amazon 11
#45 Bryan James Donlan Amazon 11
#45 Diwakar Gupta Amazon 11

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