Oregon — Patent Inventors 2021

Oregon ranks #14 among US states for total patents filed in 2021, with 10,932 patents from 4,388 inventors across 127 cities. On a per-capita basis that is 2.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a standard benchmark for comparing state-level R&D intensity.

Top Cities in Oregon 2021

Rank	City	Patents	Inventors
#1	Portland, OR	5,317	1,855
#2	Beaverton, OR	1,413	504
#3	Hillsboro, OR	1,256	519
#4	Corvallis, OR	672	253
#5	Lake Oswego, OR	261	128
#6	Eugene, OR	208	133
#7	Bend, OR	196	108
#8	West Linn, OR	140	71
#9	Tigard, OR	136	86
#10	Salem, OR	100	35
#11	Sherwood, OR	99	43
#12	Tualatin, OR	86	49
#13	Albany, OR	70	39
#14	Klamath Falls, OR	68	7
#15	North Plains, OR	68	28
#16	Wilsonville, OR	63	37
#17	Newberg, OR	57	37
#18	Oregon City, OR	49	28
#19	Gresham, OR	41	26
#20	Happy Valley, OR	37	25
#21	Forest Grove, OR	34	24
#22	Ashland, OR	26	19
#23	Milwaukie, OR	24	15
#24	Silverton, OR	19	7
#25	Sandy, OR	18	6

Top Inventors in Oregon 2021

Rank	Inventor	City	Company	Patents
1	Gang Xiong	Portland	Apple	101
2	Tahir Ghani	Portland	Intel	58
3	Jack T. Kavalieros	Portland	Intel	48
3	Ned M. Smith	Beaverton	Intel	48
#5	Abhishek A. Sharma	Hillsboro	Intel	46
#6	Ravi Pillarisetty	Portland	Intel	42
#6	Van H. Le	Portland	Intel	42
#8	Gilbert Dewey	Beaverton	Intel	40
#9	Dae Won Lee	Portland	LG	38
#9	Brian Cronquist	Klamath Falls	Monolithic 3D	38
#11	Anand S. Murthy	Portland	Intel	37
#12	Robert J. Stacey	Portland	Intel	34
#13	Willy Rachmady	Beaverton	Intel	33
#14	Scott T. Christensen	Salem	State Farm	32
#14	Joonyoung Cho	Portland	Samsung	32
#14	Sasikanth Manipatruni	Portland	Kepler Computing	32
#17	Michael W. Cumbie	Corvallis	HP	31
#18	Chien-Hua Chen	Corvallis	HP	29
#18	Candy Yiu	Portland	Apple	29
#20	Marko Radosavljevic	Portland	Intel	28
#20	Nikhil Gupta	Portland	Magna Electronics	28
#20	Carlos Cordeiro	Portland	Intel	28
#23	James Michael Gardner	Corvallis	HP	27
#23	Lu Lu	Hillsboro	Meta	27
#25	Daryl E. Anderson	Corvallis	HP	26

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