Top Inventors in Kennewick, WA | Patent Leaderboard

Kennewick, WA ranks #1,912 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,697 patents from 425 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Kennewick, WA include Inentec, GE, Baker Hughes Holdings. That works out to 20.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 425 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Jeffrey E. Surma	Inentec	50
2	John Patrick Lemmon	GE	49
3	Kenneth R. Evans	Baker Hughes Holdings	38
#4	Peter M. Martin	Battelle Memorial Institute	34
#5	Thomas E. Hall	Battelle Memorial Institute	31
#6	Wei Wang	Battelle Memorial Institute	26
#6	Ward E. TeGrotenhuis	Battelle Memorial Institute	26
#8	Chunshe Cao	ExxonMobil	25
#9	Kevin L. Simmons	Battelle Memorial Institute	23
#10	David W. Christiansen	US Dept of Energy	22
#10	Timothy M. Green	Code 3	22
#12	Glen E. Fryxell	Battelle Memorial Institute	21
#13	Dominic A. Cataldo	Battelle Memorial Institute	20
#13	James A. Batdorf	Inentec	20
#15	Michael Earle Rainey	Snowflake	19
#15	Robert G. Pratt	Battelle Memorial Institute	19
#17	James A. Horton	US Dept of Energy	18
#18	James R. Skorpik	Battelle Memorial Institute	17
#19	Trent Robert Wetherbee	Illumagear	16
#19	Paul H. Humble	Battelle Memorial Institute	16
#21	Dean W. Matson	Battelle Memorial Institute	15
#21	Bruce E. Bernacki	Battelle Memorial Institute	15
#23	James Bruce	Battelle Memorial Institute	14
#23	Todd R. Hart	Battelle Memorial Institute	14
#25	Mark Fow	—	13
#25	Wendy D. Bennett	Battelle Memorial Institute	13
#25	Jamelyn D. Holladay	Battelle Memorial Institute	13
#28	Alexander G. Fassbender	Battelle Memorial Institute	12
#28	Suresh Baskaran	Battelle Memorial Institute	12
#28	David Lee Jepsen	Cadwell Laboratories	12
#28	Larry C. Olsen	City Labs	12
#32	Thomas Metz	Battelle Memorial Institute	11
#32	Vanessa M. Kenning	Mesosystems Technology	11
#32	Michel J. Gray	Battelle Memorial Institute	11
#32	Darrell R. Herling	Battelle Memorial Institute	11
#36	Matthew K. Donnelly	Battelle Memorial Institute	10
#36	Joel Micka	Jmc Enterprises	10
#36	Eileen Durfee	Creatrix Solutions	10
#36	Abhinav Vishnu	AMD	10
#36	Paul Kelly	Nucor	10
#36	Tayler Wonders	—	10
#36	Robert Terry	The Boc Group Limited	10
#43	William C. Forsythe	Cisco	9
#43	Nancy E. Miller	Battelle Memorial Institute	9
#43	Larry D. Dickinson	Texas Instruments	9
#43	Alan R. Cooper	Battelle Memorial Institute	9
#43	Owen R. Moss	Battelle Memorial Institute	9
#48	Donald E. Freepons	Melamine Chemicals	8
#48	David Schneider	Jds Uniphase	8
#48	Elizabeth G. Hetzler	Battelle Memorial Institute	8

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