Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Woodinville, WA ranks #233 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 12,778 patents from 1,504 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Woodinville, WA include Cypress Semiconductor, IBM, Merlin Technology. That works out to 977.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,504 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 David G. Wright Cypress Semiconductor 194
2 Robert A. Shearer IBM 189
3 Albert W. Chau Merlin Technology 183
#4 Hatem Zeine Ossia 176
#5 Matthew E. Colburn IBM 173
#5 Timothy Gallagher Maxlinear 173
#7 Eric C. Peterson Microsoft 148
#8 Mark Eyer Sony 139
#9 Anoop Gupta Microsoft 128
#10 Adam J. Muff IBM 115
#11 J. Samuel Batchelder Stratasys 104
#12 Leon F. Garcia-Martinez Alderbio Holdings 93
#13 Ronald R. Marquardt Sprint Communications 86
#14 Henry R. Costantino Group14 Technologies 85
#14 Robert B. Hubler Intuitive Surgical 85
#16 Joseph H. Matthews, III Bright Star Technology 77
#16 Ryen William White Microsoft 77
#18 Christopher J. Pettey Amazon 74
#19 Parag Garg T-Mobile Usa 72
#19 Jason Cahill Microsoft 72
#21 Antonio John Miller Meta 71
#22 Daniel C. Park Microsoft 70
#23 James M. Alkove Microsoft 68
#24 Eric S. Chung Microsoft 64
#25 Gregory Hitchcock Microsoft 63
#26 Nicholas Roy Corson Meta 62
#27 Dennis M. Skelton Medtronic 61
#27 Craig R. Maitlen Microsoft 61
#27 Ben Sugden Microsoft 61
#30 Matthew R. Cook Lbp Manufacturing 60
#31 Robert G. Atkinson Microsoft 59
#31 Joel R. Spiegel Amazon 59
#33 James A. Billmaier Digeo 58
#33 Richard F. Rashid Microsoft 58
#35 Joseph Daniel Tobiason Mitutoyo 57
#36 Jason David Adrian Meta 55
#37 Christopher Strickland Beall Amazon 54
#37 Weidong Song The Boeing 54
#39 Benjamin Edward Rampson Microsoft 53
#40 Vincenzo Casasanta, III Empire Technology Development 52
#41 Joshua O. Miller Microsoft 50
#41 Phillip D. Foshee, Jr. West Affum Holdings 50
#41 Daniel R. Smith The Boeing 50
#44 Igor V. Kutyavin Epoch Pharmaceuticals 49
#44 Mark Hamburg Adobe 49
#46 Christopher H. Porter American Medical Systems 47
#46 Douglas A. Martin Coinstar 47
#46 Jason Clark Meta 47
#49 David N. Roundhill Philips 46
#49 Jonathan R. Peterson Meta 46

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