Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Beaverton, OR ranks #90 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 1,413 patents from 504 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Beaverton, OR include Intel, Nike, Apple. That works out to 14.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 504 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Ned M. Smith Intel 48
2 Gilbert Dewey Intel 40
3 Willy Rachmady Intel 33
#4 Glen J. Anderson Intel 25
#4 Nate Durflinger Nike 25
#6 Qian Li Apple 24
#7 David M. Durham Intel 22
#8 Kyle D. Schenone Nike 21
#8 Mohan J. Kumar Intel 21
#10 Kevin Lin Intel 17
#11 Fiona L. Lesecq Nike 16
#12 Aaron D. Lilak Intel 15
#13 Benjamin Nethongkome Nike 13
#13 Jaejin Lee Samsung 13
#13 Dmitri E. Nikonov Intel 13
#16 Christopher Schultz Levi Strauss & 12
#16 Richmond Hicks Intel 12
#16 Jennifer Schultz Levi Strauss & 12
#16 Murugasamy K. Nachimuthu Intel 12
#20 Bryant Russell Klug Nike 11
#20 Muthaiah Venkatachalam Intel 11
#20 Hari Hampapuram Dexcom 11
#20 Rajeev Kumar Dokania Kepler Computing 11
#20 Mark Bohr Intel 11
#25 Zachary R. Yoscovits Intel 10
#25 Chandra S. Mohapatra Intel 10
#25 Duck Young Kong Steelcase 10
#25 Leon Witherow Nike 10
#29 Tristan A. Tronic Intel 9
#29 Kelly A. O'Connor Nike 9
#29 Tomas Filler Digimarc 9
#29 Wil Sixour Nike 9
#29 Bjorn Brauer Kla-Tencor 9
#29 Xin Yin Chio Kang Medical 9
#29 Caleb W. Dyer Nike 9
#29 Jay Constantinou Nike 9
#37 Kassio Figur Nike 8
#37 Manish Chandhok Intel 8
#37 James Y. Yoo Nike 8
#40 Mikhail Galeev Isco International 7
#40 Patrick Connor Intel 7
#40 Arthur Molinari Nike 7
#40 Alex Braica Nike 7
#44 Maria Ramirez Loaiza Intel 6
#44 Robert B. Basham IBM 6
#44 Vincent R. Scarlata Intel 6
#44 Sujoy Sen Intel 6
#44 Kaan Oguz Intel 6
#44 Sean P. Mirkes Intel 6
#44 Charlotte Harris Nike 6

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