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Seattle, WA All Time

134,987 patents  ·  21,776 inventors  ·  183.2/1k pop.

Ranked #32 of 111,555 cities Top 1%

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, Penn State, Salesforce. That works out to 183.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 12,651–12,700 of 21,776 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#10473 Jared Sharfin Amazon 2
#10473 Edward P. O'Brien Penn State 2
#10473 Jewel Loree Salesforce 2
#10473 Subhadeep Chakraborty Amazon 2
#10473 Gay L. Gilmore Microsoft 2
#10473 Kara White Moyes Seattle Children'S Hospital 2
#10473 Russell E. Baetke The Boeing 2
#10473 Julia C. Piasecki Amgen 2
#10473 David Killmon Amazon 2
#10473 Thomas A. Vaughan Google 2
#10473 Craig A. Hopperstad The Boeing 2
#10473 Nathaniel B. Guy Nintendo Co. 2
#10473 Brett Allen Taylor Salesforce 2
#10473 Jon Jacobson — 2
#10473 Evgeni V. Sokurenko University Of Washington 2
#10473 Suryanarayana Kolluri University Of Washington 2
#10473 Benjamin Cheung Amazon 2
#10473 Manan Pathak University Of Washington 2
#10473 Sean Daye Mann Salesforce 2
#10473 Michael Brian Kovner Salesforce 2
#10473 Don Buenaventura Nuscale Power 2
#10473 Nino Bice Microsoft 2
#10473 Scott A. Hembroff — 2
#10473 Steven Adam Weinrauch Trupanion 2
#10473 Stephen C. Mack Amazon 2
#10473 Joel Schlekewey Metawave Communications 2
#10473 Omer Shabtai Jakobinsky Amazon 2
#10473 Samuel J. Cowan The Boeing 2
#10473 Justin Guinney University of California 2
#10473 Marie Rose Van Schravendijk Latency 2
#10473 Timothy Mark Christman — 2
#10473 Mike Burkard Microsoft 2
#10473 Phil E. Sharpe — 2
#10473 Samih Fadli — 2
#10473 Bryan J. Halligan — 2
#10473 Dao-Fu Dai Cornell University 2
#10473 Brett Patrick Canfield Amazon 2
#10473 Allisa Jungha Song Nanodropper 2
#10473 Laurence A. Reising The Boeing 2
#10473 Elias Lee Baker Nanodropper 2
#10473 Arthur S. Rose Unknown 2
#10473 Jan-Louis van Zyl Sonos 2
#10473 Joseph L. Rumney The Boeing 2
#10473 Daniel Robert Hentzen Amazon 2
#10473 Kunal Dewan Pahwa Amazon 2
#10473 Bret Lorimore Meta 2
#10473 Mike Andrew Hritzo The Boeing 2
#10473 Robert W. Burnham The Boeing 2
#10473 Sarah L. Joers Microsoft 2
#10473 Gitesh Tyagi Amazon 2

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