Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Redmond, WA ranks #35 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 3,144 patents from 1,700 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Redmond, WA include Microsoft, Sigmasense, Llc., Ai Incorporated. That works out to 42.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,700 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Raymond Kirk Price Microsoft 30
2 Gerald Dale Morrison Sigmasense, Llc. 25
3 Chen Zhang Ai Incorporated 23
#4 Babak Amirsolaimani Meta 21
#5 Cliff Chiang Masco Corporation Of Indiana 18
#6 Jian Xu Foxconn 17
#6 Dexin Kong IBM 17
#6 Scott Charles McEldowney Meta 17
#9 Hee Yoon Lee Meta 16
#10 Xing Fan BOE 15
#11 Kevin R. Tsai The Boeing 14
#12 Sudhir K. Satpathy Intel 13
#12 Eyal Ofek Microsoft 13
#12 Giuseppe Calafiore Meta 13
#15 Laura Marie Gustavson West Affum Holdings 12
#16 Weichuan Gao Meta 11
#16 Fenglin Peng Meta 11
#16 David R. Perek Meta 11
#16 Sheng Ye Maxlinear 11
#20 Jesper Mikael Johansson Amazon 10
#20 Andrew Lovitt Meta 10
#20 Song Chen Meta 10
#20 Yang Chen Microsoft 10
#24 Aaron Schmitz Microsoft 9
#24 George Petre Microsoft 9
#24 Zhaoming Zhu Meta 9
#24 Abhishek Shukla Microsoft 9
#24 Harold Anthony Martinez Molina Microsoft 9
#24 Mark Terrano Meta 9
#24 Sanjeev Tagra Adobe 9
#31 Darren Ernest Canavor Amazon 8
#31 Erie Lai Har Lau AT&T 8
#31 David Justin Ross Alitheon 8
#31 Houdong Hu Microsoft 8
#31 James Ronald Bonar Meta 8
#31 Vivek Narasayya Microsoft 8
#31 Colton Brett Marshall Microsoft 8
#38 Mohsen Sazegar Kymeta 7
#38 Elio Damaggio Microsoft 7
#38 Ishwar Agarwal Intel 7
#38 Alazel Acheson Amazon 7
#38 Sang Ho Yoon Samsung 7
#38 Stephane Taine Meta 7
#38 Yijing Fu Meta 7
#38 Charlene Mary Atlas Meta 7
#38 John R. Hull The Boeing 7
#38 Minya Liang USAA 7
#38 Shyam Krishnamoorthy Amazon 7
#38 Kris Ganjam Microsoft 7
#38 Sata Busayarat Home Box Office 7

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