Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Beaverton, OR ranks #89 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 28,657 patents from 3,140 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Beaverton, OR include Intel, Nike, Apple. That works out to 293.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 3,140 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Ned M. Smith Intel 498
2 Robert S. Chau Intel 495
3 Gilbert Dewey Intel 398
#4 Willy Rachmady Intel 361
#5 Andrew G. V. Oldknow Nike 326
#5 David M. Durham Intel 326
#7 Qian Li Apple 283
#8 Rajeev Kumar Dokania Kepler Computing 252
#9 Vivek K. De Intel 245
#10 Benjamin Nethongkome Nike 244
#11 Glen J. Anderson Intel 236
#12 Muthaiah Venkatachalam Intel 224
#13 Mohan J. Kumar Intel 196
#14 Suman Datta Intel 191
#15 Mark Bohr Intel 164
#16 Dmitri E. Nikonov Intel 149
#17 Paul E. McKenney IBM 145
#18 Carl L. Madore Nike 135
#19 Karl M. Robinson Micron 122
#20 Aaron D. Lilak Intel 118
#21 Kyle D. Schenone Nike 116
#22 Patrick Connor Intel 114
#23 Kelly A. O'Connor Nike 113
#24 Geoffrey S. Strongin AMD 108
#25 Kevin Lin Intel 104
#25 David R. Evans Sharp Laboratories Of America 104
#27 Hari Hampapuram Dexcom 100
#28 Kaan Oguz Intel 99
#28 John B. Halbert Intel 99
#30 Vincent R. Scarlata Intel 98
#31 Sujoy Sen Intel 96
#31 Barrie Gilbert Analog Devices 96
#33 Stephen H. Gunther Intel 94
#34 William D. Young Nike 90
#34 Kelin J. Kuhn Intel 90
#36 Jaejin Lee Samsung 87
#37 Manish Chandhok Intel 86
#37 David Lee Cisco 86
#37 Murugasamy K. Nachimuthu Intel 86
#40 Mikhail Galeev Isco International 85
#41 David W. Grawrock Intel 83
#42 Fiona L. Lesecq Nike 82
#42 Oleg Golonzka Intel 82
#44 Eric S. Schindler Nike 81
#45 Bryant Russell Klug Nike 80
#46 Daniel G. Knierim Tektronix 79
#46 Shekhar Y. Borkar Intel 79
#48 Andrew Winfield Nike 75
#49 Robert Greiner Intel 74
#50 Robert B. Basham IBM 73

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