Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Tigard, OR ranks #814 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 4,145 patents from 696 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Tigard, OR include Nike, Intel, Xerox. That works out to 76.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 696 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Lee D. Peyton Nike 156
2 Muhammad M. Khellah Intel 132
3 Christopher Ryan Gold Xerox 104
#4 Gary D. McCormack Keyssa 100
#5 Po-Cheng Chen Au Optronics 74
#6 Perry W. Auger Nike 73
#7 Saurabh Dadu Intel 70
#8 Adnan M. Alattar Digimarc 57
#9 Willard M. Wiseman Intel 51
#10 John Dunklee Cascade Microtech 48
#11 Howard L. Heck Intel 47
#11 Mark E. Sprenger Intel 47
#13 Frank L. Pasquale Lam Research 45
#14 John Earle Deckers Outdoor 42
#15 Shantinath Ghongadi Novellus Systems 41
#16 Robert R. Kreitzer Tektronix 38
#17 Mario A. Lafortune Nike 34
#18 Oliver Heravi Warn Industries 31
#18 Patrick G. Kutch Intel 31
#20 Joe Walczyk Intel 30
#21 Iosif Gasparakis Intel 29
#22 Timothy L. Crawford Xerox 28
#23 John Benson Abbott 27
#23 Daniel R. Higgins Anthony-Ross 27
#25 Hal Hardinge Fiskars Brands 26
#25 James E. Brown Control Solutions 26
#25 Howard V. Goetz Snap 26
#25 Jutao Jiang Sionyx 26
#29 Jeremy Leigh Cattone Ebay 25
#29 Quang A. Nguyen Abengoa Bioenergy New Technologies 25
#29 Osama M. Alattar Digimarc 25
#29 Timothy Timmins Grape Technology Group 25
#33 Jeremy Schroeder Navico Holding As 24
#34 Craig K. Sills Nike 23
#34 James S. Sims Novellus Systems 23
#36 Rebecca P. Hurd Nike 22
#36 David W. Johnson Xerox 22
#36 Corbin L. Champion HP 22
#36 Patrick Breiling Lam Research 22
#36 Jay P. White Symbol Technologies 22
#36 Chen Wang Mentor Graphics 22
#42 Keith Fox Novellus Systems 20
#42 Tawfik M. Rahal-Arabi Intel 20
#42 Keshavan Tiruvallur Intel 20
#42 Robert H. Niemeyer, III Am International 20
#42 Yaswanth Rangineni Lam Research 20
#42 Malahal R. Naineni IBM 20
#48 Gary Odom 19
#49 Risha Dupre Nike 18
#49 Edward P. Osburn Intel 18

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