Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Seattle, WA ranks #10 worldwide for total patents filed in 2023, with 7,414 patents from 4,250 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Seattle, WA include Snowflake, Microsoft, Oracle. That works out to 10.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 4,250 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Benoit Dageville Snowflake 71
2 Michael Bleyer Microsoft 37
3 Douglas S. McNair Oracle 31
#4 Siddhartha Srinivasa Berkshire Grey Operating Company 24
#5 Jeffrey Roh Ix Innovation 21
#5 Yu Jiang Tham Snap 21
#5 Ming Shan Kwok T-Mobile Usa 21
#5 Jue Wang Adobe 21
#5 Brian T. Schowengerdt Magic Leap 21
#10 Kenneth D. Ray Sophos Limited 20
#11 Istvan Cseri Snowflake 19
#11 Diwakar Gupta Amazon 19
#13 Franck Dernoncourt Adobe 18
#13 Peter Wesley Bristol Meta 18
#15 Brian Lewis Piper Pioneer Square Brands 17
#16 Jeremy Chritz Micron 16
#17 Ryo Kubota Acucela 15
#17 Emelie Elna Victoria Troedson Pioneer Square Brands 15
#19 Kenneth E. Miller Eagle Harbor Technologies 14
#20 Amitava Gupta Acucela 13
#20 Elya Shechtman Adobe 13
#20 Pragyana K. Mishra Amazon 13
#20 Katherine Marie Smyth Meta 13
#24 Manoj Aggarwal Amazon 12
#24 Benjamin Ralph Hollis Snap 12
#24 Aviral Joshi Commscope Technologies 12
#27 Daniel T. Chiu University Of Washington 11
#27 Shan E. Gaw Magnolia Medical Technologies 11
#27 Yuchen Zhou Avalanche Technology 11
#27 Muhammad Raffay Hamid Amazon 11
#27 Miranda C. Hill Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 11
#27 Yi-Ting Chen Honda Motor Co. 11
#33 Gregory J. Bullington Magnolia Medical Technologies 10
#33 Lucas Michael Kreger-Stickles Oracle 10
#33 James Christopher Sorenson, III Amazon 10
#33 Philip Robinson Meta 10
#33 Ilia Slobodov Eagle Harbor Technologies 10
#33 James Prager Eagle Harbor Technologies 10
#33 Stefan Richter Amazon 10
#33 Marc John Brooker Amazon 10
#33 Christopher Yuan Ting Liao Meta 10
#33 Bryce Eugene Bockman Oracle 10
#33 Phillip Bosua Know Labs 10
#44 Bichlien Hoang NGUYEN Microsoft 9
#44 John G. Carscadden Eagle Harbor Technologies 9
#44 Sharad Agarwal Microsoft 9
#44 Vi Dinh Chau Zoom Video Communications 9
#44 Bradley Baron Snap 9
#44 Joe Gray Rad Power Bikes 9
#50 Ivaylo Boyadzhiev Mftb Holdco 8

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