Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

North Bend, WA ranks #1,670 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,998 patents from 228 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in North Bend, WA include Intellectual Ventures, Tessera, T-Mobile Usa. That works out to 267.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 228 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Charles Whitmer Intellectual Ventures 419
2 Joseph Fjelstad Tessera 187
3 Michael J. Mitchell T-Mobile Usa 73
#4 Kevin S. Currie Gilead Connecticut 72
#5 Matthew Whiting Taylor Gogoro 56
#6 Chad B. McBride Microsoft 52
#7 Joseph W. Grez L'Oreal 51
#8 Scott A. Green Orion Energy Systems 46
#9 Jesse Thompson K-2 40
#10 Michael Buhrmann AT&T 38
#11 Brian J. Deen Microsoft 37
#12 Donald D. Karlov Microsoft 32
#13 Remy Pieron Nike 28
#14 Dean Batten Revivermx 20
#15 Jonathan D. Garn Sonos 19
#15 Michael Anthony Faoro Microsoft 19
#15 Keith W. Ballinger Microsoft 19
#15 Paulo S. T. Chow T-Mobile Usa 19
#15 Bryan A. Woodruff Microsoft 19
#20 Derrick Ives T-Mobile Usa 17
#21 Michael Manos The Invention Science Fund I 16
#21 Hatch Graham Stanford Telecommunications 16
#23 Bjarne Steensgaard Microsoft 15
#24 Richard N. Bostwick The Boeing 14
#24 Walter Forrest Frantz The Boeing 14
#26 Yvonne Stark Morphosys Ag 13
#26 Sean L. Flynn Microsoft 13
#26 Jeffrey Alexander Microsoft 13
#29 Timothy Shelton T-Mobile Usa 12
#29 Donald J. Hacherl Microsoft 12
#29 Jonathan D. Morrison Microsoft 12
#32 John C. Simmons Microsoft 11
#32 Jeffrey B. Hamblin Microsoft 11
#32 William E. Bryant Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 11
#32 Fred L. Templin The Boeing 11
#32 Matthew David Kurjanowicz Microsoft 11
#32 Angela Moulden Microsoft 11
#32 Chris Macris 11
#39 Stephen F. Becka Honeywell 10
#39 Timothy John Craycroft Apple 10
#41 Arushan Rajasekaram Amazon 9
#41 Ian Johnson HP 9
#41 Terry A. Adams Microsoft 9
#44 Tom McCann Intel 8
#44 Carol E. Anway The Boeing 8
#44 Melanie K. Kitzan Intellectual Ventures 8
#44 James T. Farricker The Boeing 8
#48 Vladimir Shubin Microsoft 7
#48 Brad Robel-Forrest Mcafee 7
#48 David Shaw Microsoft 7

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