Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Issaquah, WA ranks #249 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 12,116 patents from 1,767 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Issaquah, WA include Intel, Rovi Guides, Amazon. That works out to 302.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,767 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Vincent J. Zimmer Intel 489
2 Reda Harb Rovi Guides 225
3 Stefano Stefani Amazon 145
#4 James J. Troy The Boeing 135
#5 Matthew R. Tubbs IBM 124
#6 William S. Wong Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated 112
#7 Ahmad Arash Obaidi T-Mobile Usa 108
#8 Daniel J. Powers Heartstream 97
#9 David L. Detlefs Oracle 83
#10 Yi-Min Huang Cyntec Co. 73
#11 Charles Michael McQuade Zonar Systems 70
#12 Gary Phillips Berlex Laboratories 68
#13 William Alexander Strand Amazon 67
#13 William J. Bolosky Microsoft 67
#15 Joshua Mark Hudman Valve 66
#16 Brandon C. Furtwangler Home Box Office 62
#17 Yung Shirley Choi-Grogan AT&T 60
#18 David Moy Hyperion Catalysis International 56
#19 Justin Bagley Progressive International 55
#20 Brandon Rubenstein HP 54
#21 Lewis M. Fraas Jx Crystals 53
#21 Jianhua Fan Amazon 53
#21 Peter A. Blomgren Gilead Sciences 53
#24 Monte Mar Cypress Semiconductor 52
#25 Bongshin Lee Microsoft 50
#26 Kevin Lau T-Mobile Usa 49
#26 Kay Y. Blohowiak The Boeing 49
#28 Michael R. Foster Delphi Technologies 48
#28 Abhishek Agarwal Microsoft 48
#28 Kishore K. Chakravorty Intel 48
#31 David K. Smith AT&T 47
#32 Afsoon Jamali Meta 46
#32 Anirudh Badam Microsoft 46
#34 Jeffrey E. Kropf Gilead Sciences 45
#35 Brian R. Meyers Microsoft 44
#35 Brian Mark Deutsch Pivotal Commware 44
#37 Marc Dubois Lockheed Martin 42
#37 Xianhong Zhang Bank of America 42
#37 Marius Dumitru Microsoft 42
#40 Michael D. Ward New York University 41
#40 Feng Wan Empire Technology Development 41
#42 Ramanathan Palaniappan Amazon 39
#43 Rohit Agarwal Intel 37
#44 John A. Zebala Syntrix Biosystems 36
#44 Mark J. Oblack Canine Hardware 36
#46 Brian Byrne Nutanix 35
#47 Guijun Wang The Boeing 34
#47 Gregory L. Clark The Boeing 34
#47 William Chen Microsoft 34
#47 Gopal Parupudi Microsoft 34

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