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Wenatchee, WA All Time

1,465 patents  ·  245 inventors  ·  41.3/1k pop.

Ranked #2,171 of 112,640 cities Top 2%

Wenatchee, WA ranks #2,171 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,465 patents from 245 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Wenatchee, WA include Hitachi, Nippon Paint Holdings Co., Insta-Foam Products. That works out to 41.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 245 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Isamu Asano Hitachi 86
2 Noriyuki Kumasaka Hitachi 59
3 Mitsuo Yamada Nippon Paint Holdings Co. 58
#4 Daniel P. Brown Insta-Foam Products 48
#5 Nobuo Owada Hitachi 47
#6 Mitsuru Nakagawa Denso 40
#7 Atsushi Nozoe Hitachi 36
#7 Hidetoshi Iwai Hitachi 36
#9 Toshihiro Sekiguchi Hitachi 32
#10 Mark S. Thompson Otis Elevator 31
#11 Toshitsugu Takekuma Hitachi 29
#12 Kinya Mitsumoto Hitachi 26
#13 Kenichi Kikushima Hitachi 24
#14 Yosuke Yukawa Renesas Technology 22
#15 Hiroshi Otori Hitachi 21
#16 Mitsugu Kusunoki Hitachi 20
#17 Mitsuhiro Takano Hitachi 19
#18 Noriyuki Sakudo Hitachi 18
#19 Yuji Ohki Casio Keisanki 17
#19 Sinichi Miyatake Hitachi 17
#19 Nobuo Tamba Hitachi 17
#22 Sadayuki Ohkuma Hitachi 16
#22 Ken Shirai Yamabiko 16
#22 Masatoshi Tsuneoka Hitachi 16
#22 Satoshi Imasu Hitachi 16
#26 Keisuke Funatsu Hitachi 15
#26 Shigeo Kuroda Hitachi 15
#28 Katumaru Sasaki Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 14
#28 Toshiharu Sawada Komatsu Zenoah 14
#28 Anne Elisabeth Carvalho Jensen Vitaeris 14
#31 Susumu Okikawa Hitachi 13
#31 Shuuichi Miyaoka Hitachi 13
#31 Takayuki Uda Hitachi 13
#31 Hiroyuki Akimori Hitachi 13
#35 Atsushi Wakahara Hitachi 12
#35 Masaki Matsushima Tdk 12
#35 Sinichi Suzuki Hitachi 12
#38 Ken Tsugane Hitachi 11
#38 Michiaki Nakayama Hitachi 11
#38 Nobuo Tanba Hitachi 11
#41 Hiroshi Akasaki Hitachi 10
#41 Akihiro Isomura Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 10
#41 Minoru Kojima Bridgestone Tire Company Limited 10
#44 Douglas G. Kelley Nalco Chemical 9
#45 Robert Gray Fasteners For Retail 8
#45 Joshua M. Silver AMD 8
#45 Masami Usami Hitachi 8
#45 Shiro Yamaguchi Kioritz 8
#49 Kyle Johan Hendrickson Ho Sports Company 7
#49 Takashi Takusagawa Bridgestone Tire Company Limited 7

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