Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Sept 30, 2025

Seattle, WA ranks #32 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 134,987 patents from 21,776 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Seattle, WA include Google, The Boeing, Microsoft. That works out to 183.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 11,501–11,550 of 21,776 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#10473 Tim Hesterberg Google 2
#10473 Nader N. I. Nakhla The Boeing 2
#10473 Paul S. Dewar The Boeing 2
#10473 Shane McRoberts Microsoft 2
#10473 George Chris Kosmos 2
#10473 Jeffrey C. Abraham Microsoft 2
#10473 Benjamin E. Tunberg Rogoza Meta 2
#10473 Victoria A. Griffith Amazon 2
#10473 Kevin T. Burkhart Amazon 2
#10473 Paul Theodore Beck Lyft 2
#10473 April Allderdice 2
#10473 Rick Roller Amazon 2
#10473 Daniela Grabs Arzeda 2
#10473 Yoshikazu Imanishi University Of Washington 2
#10473 Annie Ya Xin Deng 2
#10473 Sara Nopwan Siritaratiwat Microsoft 2
#10473 Grant Lee Crilly Elwha 2
#10473 Del Cross 2
#10473 Jeremy Douglas Fehr Amazon 2
#10473 Marc Alan Szeto-Millstone IBM 2
#10473 Douglas Frederick Aley Amazon 2
#10473 Dany Miguel Yannick Houde Amazon 2
#10473 Kenneth John Railey Amazon 2
#10473 Patrick C. Fahey The Boeing 2
#10473 Suzanne Elise Meador The Boeing 2
#10473 Jennifer Jean CHOI Microsoft 2
#10473 Alan W. Crawshaw 2
#10473 Annie Lenore Smith Microsoft 2
#10473 Jon N. Sorensen Amazon 2
#10473 Scott Fontaine 2
#10473 Joseph Edward Tucker Peach University Of Washington 2
#10473 Claire Watts University Of Washington 2
#10473 Theodore Roberts Sherwood Services Ag 2
#10473 David S. Barlin Microsoft 2
#10473 Sandamali Devadithya University Of Washington 2
#10473 Narayan Gangadhar Amazon 2
#10473 Michael Palotas Microsoft 2
#10473 V. Kenneth Stuhr The Boeing 2
#10473 Lee Higgins University Of Pittsburgh 2
#10473 Andrew Luke Chronister Apple 2
#10473 Mark Fricker Unknown 2
#10473 Victoria Kruse Microsoft 2
#10473 Alexander Twaites Blue Origin 2
#10473 Krishna Sai Veera Reddy Oracle 2
#10473 Qiang Kong Unknown 2
#10473 Pratap Chandar Joseph Microsoft 2
#10473 Joseph Pfeiffer University Of Washington 2
#10473 Roy Ikegami The Boeing 2
#10473 Felix Simonovsky University Of Washington 2
#10473 Tanvir Singh Mundra Oracle 2

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