Top Inventors in Des Moines, WA | Patent Leaderboard

Des Moines, WA ranks #4,745 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 572 patents from 180 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Des Moines, WA include Paccar, Intermec Ip, Omax. That works out to 17.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 180 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Wayne K. Simons	Paccar	59
2	Alan F. Jovanovich	Intermec Ip	24
3	Roy L. Meryman	Paccar	20
#4	Kevin Hay	Omax	19
#5	Thomas E. Speer	The Boeing	18
#6	Harry C. Ralph	The Boeing	13
#6	Stephen K. Wilcken	The Boeing	13
#8	Miles Julian Ward	Amazon	12
#9	Jeffrey N. Fitzner	Neorx	9
#9	Douglas W. Glenn	Fatigue Technology	9
#9	Alexander Martinez	Hope Global Division Of Nfa	9
#9	Alan G. Burg	The Boeing	9
#13	Bernard A. Pearson	Unknown	8
#13	Donald B. Snow	Applied Precision	8
#13	Charles W. Clark	Atom Sciences	8
#16	James S. Tomlin	Frigoscandia Food Process Systems Ab	7
#17	Terence Duncan	Mahindra Tractor Assembly	6
#17	James F. Chumbley	—	6
#17	Arun A. Nadkarni	The Boeing	6
#17	Larry W. Orr	Paccar	6
#17	Dennis Watkins	Airsensors	6
#17	Joseph B. Cashman	—	6
#17	Scott William Dunlop	Cisco	6
#24	Allan R. Northrup	Amaray International	5
#24	Anton Kirillov	Microsoft	5
#24	Jaime Radcliff	—	5
#24	Josef Larsson	Microsoft	5
#24	Henry L. Kotkins, Jr.	Skyway Luggage	5
#24	David S. Yotsuuye	The Boeing	5
#30	Ethmer W. King	The Boeing	4
#30	James C. Axtell	The Boeing	4
#30	Brandon Bowers	Cascade Designs	4
#30	Kristy Ann Caster	Walmart Apollo	4
#30	John Gilbert	The Boeing	4
#30	Richard K. Sommercorn	Quintron Instrument Company	4
#30	Scott D. Billings	The Boeing	4
#30	Douglas W. Sherman	The Boeing	4
#30	Fred Fakkema	Zonar Systems	4
#30	Robert J. Lenaburg	The Boeing	4
#40	Ramsey Gill	Amazon	3
#40	Rodney D. Cameron	The Boeing	3
#40	Michael F. Maikowski	Excel/Quantronix	3
#40	William R. Archibald	Flow Industries	3
#40	Usha Kiran	IBM	3
#40	George E. Tubbs	—	3
#40	Donald L. Grande	The Boeing	3
#40	Doug Glenn	Fatigue Technology	3
#40	Raymond L. Cherry	The Boeing	3
#40	Thomas M. Hartman	—	3
#40	Robert J. C. Feldsted	—	3

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