Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Spokane, WA ranks #835 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 176 patents from 101 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Spokane, WA include Continuous Composites, Bowles Fluidics, Verint Americas. That works out to 0.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 101 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Ryan C. Stockett Continuous Composites 24
2 Gregory A. Russell Bowles Fluidics 8
3 Fred A. Brown Verint Americas 7
#4 Dwight H. Damon Ormco 5
#4 Damian Matthew Brandon Cronkhite Revamp Panels 5
#6 Paul L. Damon Premier Orthodontic Designs Lllp 4
#6 Marc Chapin Sterling International 4
#8 Patrick O. Tennican Hyprotek 3
#8 Michael Kosmicki Novelis 3
#8 Ian Beaver Verint Americas 3
#8 Jason Moore 3
#12 Jonathan Patrick Merriman Verint Americas 2
#12 Mark W. Holderman Mpi 2
#12 Patrick Underwood Honeywell 2
#12 Samuel Cameron Fleming Aon Risk Services, Inc. Of Maryland 2
#12 Stephen Edward Schulte Avista Edge 2
#12 Brian D. Nelson Medtronic 2
#12 Darrin Griechen Katerra 2
#12 Randy D. Sines Digideal 2
#12 Steve Dabell Alcatel Internetworking, (Pe) 2
#12 Stephane Ferrasse Honeywell 2
#12 Charlotte Squires 2
#12 Mark Wayne Gustafson Avista Edge 2
#12 Michael R. Pinter Honeywell 2
#12 Curtis Allen Kirkeby Avista Edge 2
#12 Eric Ryan Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories 2
#12 David R. Lott Relion 2
#12 Benjamin J. Boyce Hotstart 2
#29 Michael D. Payton Honeywell 1
#29 Nickolas James Alexander Unknown 1
#29 George Muriithi Avista 1
#29 Erik L. Turner Honeywell 1
#29 Steven Joseph Allard Pearson Packaging Systems 1
#29 Carlos Limon Avista 1
#29 Tim Lovell Stryker European Operations Limited 1
#29 Joshua Stumbo Dish Network L.L.C. 1
#29 Minh Button Hypersciences 1
#29 Zachary Peacemaker Sos Solutions 1
#29 Kurt Gauss Gsi Outdoors 1
#29 Alon S. Aharon University Hospitals Of Cleveland 1
#29 Jason Estes Itron 1
#29 Michael J. Johnson Pearson Packaging Systems 1
#29 Wayne Gebhardt Fishbone Packaging 1
#29 Christina Khail Nasdaq 1
#29 Brady Hansen Avista 1
#29 Bryan Joseph Kioski Telect 1
#29 Sean D. Chambers Cook Medical Technologies 1
#29 Patricia Gilfeather Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories 1
#29 Carl Reed Jessen Rowan Tels 1
#29 Igor Shirobokov 1

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