Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Olympia, WA ranks #1,455 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 2,314 patents from 379 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Olympia, WA include Intel, Amazon, Microsoft. That works out to 41.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 379 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Ian A. Young Intel 265
2 Kuljit S. Bains Intel 205
3 Peter George Ross Amazon 120
#4 Sean M. James Microsoft 55
#5 Leslie Young Harvill Zazzle 48
#6 Craig S. Ranta Microsoft 43
#7 Jeffory L. Smalley Intel 38
#8 Andrew J. Fish Intel 37
#8 Keith D. Rosema Intellectual Ventures 37
#10 Mark Doran Intel 36
#11 John C. Pavlich Terra Nova Nurseries 32
#12 Viktor D. Vogman Intel 31
#13 Ketan R. Shah Intel 29
#14 Tomm Aldridge Intel 28
#14 Justin J. Song Intel 28
#16 Daniel P. Carter Intel 27
#16 Bradley Arthur Crittenden Rcm Enterprise L.L.C. 27
#18 Jon Bengtsson Rcm Enterprise L.L.C. 25
#18 Robert Thompson, Jr. Rcm Enterprise L.L.C. 25
#20 Terry L. Setina J.R. Setina Manufacturing 24
#21 Thomas J. Davis Saudi Arabian Oil 22
#21 James G. Robinson Amazon 22
#23 Charles Colin Macduff Rcm Enterprise L.L.C. 21
#24 Mark B. Trobough Intel 20
#25 Dennis A. Burke Western Environmental Engineering 19
#25 Henry W. Koertzen Intel 19
#27 Michael Kinney Intel 18
#27 Mark D. Winsor Winsor 18
#29 John Underbrink Spang 17
#30 Andy Hoffman Intel 15
#30 Michael Jon Moen Amazon 15
#30 Robin A. Steinbrecher Intel 15
#30 Kersi H. Vakil Intel 15
#30 Thomas Matthew Ryle Amazon 15
#35 James D. Fletcher Rca 14
#36 Thomas Allen Vecna Technologies 13
#37 Gong Ouyang Intel 12
#37 Carl E. Iverson Ch2O Incorporated 12
#37 Sandip K. Nandy Unigen 12
#40 Keith A. Drescher Diebold 11
#40 Timothy D. Aquino The Boeing 11
#40 Derek Paul Vetter The Boeing 11
#43 Joe A. Harrison Intel 10
#43 Susan F. Smith Intel 10
#43 Roeland Collet Microvision 10
#46 Alexandre Mikhailovitch Nesterov Unigen 9
#46 Gundrala D. Goud Intel 9
#46 Patrick S. Johnson Intel 9
#46 Kevin Ceurter Intel 9
#46 Michael Roy Callaway Golf 9

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