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 Amazon, Microsoft, Snowflake. That works out to 183.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 11,951–12,000 of 21,776 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#10473 Damien Renaud Leake Amazon 2
#10473 Ankit Masrani Amazon 2
#10473 Clay Satterfield Microsoft 2
#10473 Wenhao Song Snowflake 2
#10473 Mahalakshmi Chandra Sekaran Bank of America 2
#10473 Silvana P. Moncayo Torres Microsoft 2
#10473 Amog Rajenderan Microsoft 2
#10473 Alexander J. Pearse Modern Electron 2
#10473 Ashwyn SHARMA 2
#10473 Peter J. Scherpelz Modern Electron 2
#10473 Melissa S. Kersh Axon Enterprise 2
#10473 Tamas Agoston Weisz Axon Enterprise 2
#10473 Howard M. Bing 2
#10473 Varun A Samtani Coupang 2
#10473 Peter A. Connelly Poarch Band Of Creek Indians 2
#10473 Joel David Niemeyer Zipwhip 2
#10473 Darvin Vida Amazon 2
#10473 Brian Weitzner Lyell Immunopharma 2
#10473 Alison Billings Zipwhip 2
#10473 Weijia Mao Qualtrics 2
#10473 Kathryn E. Knowles University Of Washington Through Its Center For Commercialization 2
#10473 Emily Jane McLaurin University Of Washington Through Its Center For Commercialization 2
#10473 Alden Hopkins Promethean Limited 2
#10473 Katherine H. Sprugel Zymogenetics 2
#10473 Liam Bradshaw University Of Washington Through Its Center For Commercialization 2
#10473 Stewart W. Roach Marco Seattle 2
#10473 Daniel McHale 2
#10473 Mark John Herzberg The Boeing 2
#10473 Elizabeth Scoble Microsoft 2
#10473 John Giaever Physio-Control Manufacturing 2
#10473 Sara Meghan Beery John Deere 2
#10473 Michael J. Reberg The Boeing 2
#10473 Steven Stroop Zymogenetics 2
#10473 Haley Hill University Of Texas System 2
#10473 Thomas William Pryor The Boeing 2
#10473 Cao Xiao IBM 2
#10473 James M. LaGasse Zymogenetics 2
#10473 Jeffrey C. Bower The Boeing 2
#10473 Brent Kauffman The Boeing 2
#10473 Lloyd H. Dietz The Boeing 2
#10473 Mary E. Lidstrom University Of Washington Through Its Center For Commercialization 2
#10473 Ira B. Rushwald The Boeing 2
#10473 Daniel Dos Santos Marques Microsoft 2
#10473 Shunfu Mao Microsoft 2
#10473 Prathyusha Reddy Cheruku Amazon 2
#10473 Kenneth L. Cox 2
#10473 Kedar Himanshu DAVE Juno Therapeutics 2
#10473 John T. O'Keefe 2
#10473 Steve Wainright Info Space 2
#10473 Charles A. Fontaine Info Space 2

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