Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Sept 30, 2025

Portland, OR ranks #60 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 87,517 patents from 9,213 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Portland, OR include Weyerhaeuser Nr, Willamette Industries. That works out to 134.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 9,201–9,213 of 9,213 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#6022 Louis J. Whispell 1
#6022 Norman R. Drulard 1
#6022 Adolf Buchholz 1
#6022 Ava Vossoughi 1
#6022 Leon R. Leadon Weyerhaeuser Nr 1
#6022 Steven C. Heitzman 1
#6022 Dalby L. Price 1
#6022 Jens R. Hansen 1
#6022 Billie J. Wilson 1
#6022 Donald Cray 1
#6022 Charles L. Carl Willamette Industries 1
#6022 Robert C. Oeck 1
#6022 Leo P. Reeves 1

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