Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Vancouver, WA ranks #264 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 11,559 patents from 1,812 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Vancouver, WA include Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Interdigital Technology, Soraa. That works out to 60.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,812 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Sachin G. Deshpande Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha 324
2 Christopher A. Segall Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha 268
3 Atsushi Ishii Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha 185
#4 John Michael Kowalski Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha 170
#5 Zhanping Yin Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha 157
#6 Kamel M. Shaheen Interdigital Technology 145
#7 Kiran Misra Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha 140
#8 Mark P. D'Evelyn Soraa 123
#9 Jefferson P. Ward HP 122
#10 Jonatan Samuelsson Ericsson 120
#11 Frederick J. Dojan Nike 105
#12 Frank Bossen Ntt Docomo 100
#13 William Ho Chang Flexiworld Technologies 99
#14 Liuyang Yang Intel 96
#15 Christopher Reynolds Ip Holding Company 91
#16 Wesley R. Schalk HP 90
#17 Steve O. Rasmussen 89
#18 Robert Yraceburu HP 82
#19 John Stanley Ip Holding Company 79
#20 Christina Ying Liu Flexiworld Technologies 77
#21 Matthew A. Shepherd HP 75
#22 Peter G. Hwang HP 72
#23 Kevin Lo HP 71
#24 Denis Schiller Nike 66
#25 Konrad K. Lai Intel 60
#26 Yaojian Leng Microchip Technology Incorporated 58
#26 Paul Coffin HP 58
#28 Kurt Ulmer Elux 56
#28 Bahareh Sadeghi Intel 56
#30 Daniel Kim Applied Ft Composite Solutions 55
#31 James G. Hermerding, II Intel 54
#32 Eric Hale Karl Storz Imaging 51
#33 Bruce G. Johnson HP 49
#34 William S. Osborne 48
#35 Roger L. Farrow Nlight 47
#35 Arthur H. Barnes HP 47
#37 Sunil Kapoor Lam Research 46
#37 Roland Jasmin Sunmodo 46
#39 Duane A Koehler HP 45
#39 Craig Hargreaves Ip Holding Company 45
#41 David A. Fanning Sd3 44
#42 Erik D. Ness HP 43
#42 Kai Ying Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha 43
#44 Paul A. Tervo Cascade Microtech 42
#45 Kenneth Williams HP 41
#45 Timothy P. Sheehan Sheehan Genetics 41
#45 Jeffrey G. Bingham HP 41
#48 David Charles Fleck Wacom Co. 39
#49 Bryan Severt Hallberg Sharp Laboratories Of America 37
#50 Steven K. Reinhardt AMD 36

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