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Seattle, WA All Time

136,259 patents  ·  21,776 inventors  ·  184.9/1k pop.

Ranked #11 of 112,640 cities Top 1%

Seattle, WA ranks #11 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 136,259 patents from 21,776 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Seattle, WA include The Invention Science Fund I, Snowflake, Amazon. That works out to 184.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 21,776 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Mark A. Malamud The Invention Science Fund I 885
2 Benoit Dageville Snowflake 445
3 Elizabeth A. Sweeney The Invention Science Fund I 379
#4 Gregory Branchek Roth Amazon 343
#5 Swaminathan Sivasubramanian Amazon 254
#6 Jue Wang Adobe 238
#7 Peter Wesley Bristol Meta 224
#8 Nicholas Alexander Allen Amazon 209
#8 Brian T. Schowengerdt Magic Leap 209
#10 Jeffrey D. Carnevali National Products 208
#11 Marc John Brooker Amazon 203
#12 David R. Richardson Amazon 202
#13 Eric C. Anderson Flashpoint Technology 201
#14 Yuchen Zhou Avalanche Technology 200
#15 Douglas S. McNair Oracle 189
#16 Michael Bleyer Microsoft 183
#17 Pragyana K. Mishra Amazon 179
#18 Kenneth D. Ray Sophos Limited 175
#18 Marc R. Matsen The Boeing 175
#20 John Nicholas Jitkoff Google 174
#20 Andrew D. Wilson Microsoft 174
#22 Siddhartha Srinivasa Berkshire Grey Operating Company 168
#23 Elya Shechtman Adobe 164
#24 Fred Bould Google 160
#25 Diwakar Gupta Amazon 156
#26 James Christopher Sorenson, III Amazon 151
#27 Amitava Gupta Acucela 149
#28 Robert C. Petroski Intellectual Ventures 146
#29 Istvan Cseri Snowflake 145
#29 Jeffrey P. Bezos Amazon 145
#31 Tate Andrew Certain Amazon 140
#32 Stephen Latta Microsoft 135
#33 Thomas Scholl Bayer Healthcare 134
#34 Kieran Phelan Microsoft 130
#35 Ming Shan Kwok T-Mobile Usa 129
#36 H. Sprague Ackley Intermec Ip 127
#37 Monique Chatterjee Microsoft 125
#38 John Latham Alderbio Holdings 124
#39 Joseph D. Ratterman IBM 118
#40 Jesse Clay Satterfield Microsoft 117
#40 Jeffrey C. Fong Microsoft 117
#42 John Ikeda Microsoft 116
#43 Oliver Wang Adobe 115
#43 Sing Bing Kang Microsoft 115
#45 Christopher Kujawski Microsoft 114
#45 June A. Angus Amphipod 114
#45 Jon Arron McClintock Amazon 114
#45 Aditha May Adams Microsoft 114
#49 Daniel Cohn Amazon 112
#49 Samuel James McKelvie Amazon 112

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