Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Newcastle, WA ranks #1,533 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 2,194 patents from 254 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Newcastle, WA include The Boeing, Amazon, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.. That works out to 168.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 254 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Morteza Safai The Boeing 193
2 Brian C. Beckman Amazon 187
3 Joon Maeng Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 138
#4 Fred W. Chapman Physio-Control 86
#5 Mark F. Novak Microsoft 66
#6 Gary W. Jones Fed 64
#7 Amjad Hussain Amazon 56
#8 Isabelle Banville Physio-Control 52
#9 Wei-Ming Lan T-Mobile Usa 50
#10 Paul Anthony Crook Meta 44
#11 Brian Burdick Microsoft 40
#12 Patrick J. Eames The Boeing 38
#13 Dennis Schober Lumicor 33
#14 Aliakbar Darabi Adobe 30
#15 John C. Gordon Microsoft 28
#16 R. Aaron Falk The Boeing 27
#17 Karen Scott Microsoft 26
#17 Pamela F. Breske West Affum Holdings Dac 26
#19 Kimberly D. Meredith The Boeing 24
#20 Varun Verma Amazon 22
#20 Jeffrey A. Jouper Astronics Advanced Electronic Systems 22
#22 Gary M. Lindahl The Boeing 21
#23 Beryl Tomay Amazon 20
#24 George M. Macdonald Pitney Bowes 18
#25 Cynthia Cech Roche Sequencing Solutions 17
#26 Myron Clifford Thomas Microsoft 16
#26 Yuanxin Charles Hu The Boeing 16
#28 Kirk B. Kajita The Boeing 15
#29 Harshavardhana Narayana Kikkeri Microsoft 14
#29 Nicholas R. Waggoner Microsoft 14
#31 Michael Tholfsen Microsoft 13
#31 Erik Kosar Metropcs Wireless 13
#31 Kenneth Grey Richards Amazon 13
#34 David M. Shemwell Respironics 12
#34 Jim L. Dantzler Amazon 12
#34 Mahmoud S. Elhaddad Microsoft 12
#37 Anuj KALIA Microsoft 11
#37 Ruchir Sinha T-Mobile Usa 11
#37 Rick Fadler Zonar Systems 11
#40 King-Hwa Lee Sap Ag 10
#40 Thomas Leo Marquardt Microsoft 10
#40 Charles Y. Hu The Boeing 10
#40 Mina Lim Physio-Control 10
#44 Bryan W. Tuttle Microsoft 9
#44 Stephen Konig Google 9
#44 David L. Rabbers Siebel Systems 9
#44 Scott Norin Microsoft 9
#44 Eric E. Adamson The Boeing 9
#44 Yu-Shan Fung Amazon 9
#44 Sameer Tejani Microsoft 9

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