Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Seattle, WA ranks #9 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 8,315 patents from 4,505 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Seattle, WA include Snowflake, Amazon, Microsoft. That works out to 11.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 4,505 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Benoit Dageville Snowflake 95
2 Istvan Cseri Snowflake 30
3 Marc John Brooker Amazon 29
#4 Michael Bleyer Microsoft 27
#5 Brian T. Schowengerdt Magic Leap 24
#6 Jeremy Chritz Micron 23
#7 Katherine Marie Smyth Meta 21
#8 Douglas S. McNair Oracle 20
#9 Siddhartha Srinivasa Berkshire Grey Operating Company 19
#9 Ming Shan Kwok T-Mobile Usa 19
#9 Kenneth D. Ray Sophos Limited 19
#12 Brian Lewis Piper Pioneer Square Brands 18
#12 Pragyana K. Mishra Amazon 18
#12 Martin Hentschel Snowflake 18
#12 Diwakar Gupta Amazon 18
#16 Gregory Branchek Roth Amazon 17
#16 Jason Thomas Faulkner Microsoft 17
#18 Libin Jiang Qualcomm 16
#18 Yuri Pekelny Microsoft 16
#20 Jeffrey Ladwig Water Pik 15
#20 Christopher Yuan Ting Liao Meta 15
#22 Kenneth E. Miller Eagle Harbor Technologies 14
#23 Philip Robinson Meta 13
#23 Yoshua Gombo Jeld-Wen 13
#23 Danny Wei Amazon 13
#23 Jue Wang Adobe 13
#23 Alexander Jobe Fix Meta 13
#23 David R. Richardson Amazon 13
#29 Yu Jiang Tham Snap 12
#29 Tristan Thomas Trutna Meta 12
#29 Timothy Allen Wagner Amazon 12
#29 Fred Bould Google 12
#29 Ryan Eugene Whitaker Microsoft 12
#29 Christopher Magee Greenwood Amazon 12
#29 Elya Shechtman Adobe 12
#36 Hitesh Shah Bank of America 11
#36 Drew Stone Briggs New Audio 11
#36 John Latham Alderbio Holdings 11
#36 John G. Carscadden Eagle Harbor Technologies 11
#36 Yi-Ting Chen Honda Motor Co. 11
#36 Louis LeRoi LeGrand, III Amazon 11
#42 James Prager Eagle Harbor Technologies 10
#42 Zane Bowman Allen Miller L'Oreal 10
#42 Rebecca Anita Dias Servicenow 10
#42 Carlos Augusto Otero Microsoft 10
#42 Isaac Kunen Snowflake 10
#42 Peter Wesley Bristol Meta 10
#42 James Christopher Sorenson, III Amazon 10
#42 Arnab Roy Fujitsu Limited 10
#42 Ilia Slobodov Eagle Harbor Technologies 10

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