Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Oregon ranks #16 among US states for total patents filed all time, with 213,362 patents from 28,073 inventors across 307 cities. On a per-capita basis that is 50.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a standard benchmark for comparing state-level R&D intensity.

Top Cities in Oregon All Time

Rank City Patents Inventors
#1 Portland, OR 88,572 9,213
#2 Beaverton, OR 28,657 3,140
#3 Hillsboro, OR 19,235 2,365
#4 Corvallis, OR 16,150 1,763
#5 Lake Oswego, OR 6,288 769
#6 Eugene, OR 5,632 1,137
#7 Tigard, OR 4,145 696
#8 West Linn, OR 4,006 419
#9 Bend, OR 3,916 663
#10 Tualatin, OR 2,388 324
#11 Sherwood, OR 2,226 276
#12 Salem, OR 2,105 493
#13 Wilsonville, OR 1,925 283
#14 Albany, OR 1,887 372
#15 Newberg, OR 1,507 252
#16 Gresham, OR 1,309 243
#17 Oregon City, OR 1,197 258
#18 Forest Grove, OR 1,161 174
#19 Milwaukie, OR 955 244
#20 North Plains, OR 927 81
#21 Ashland, OR 785 149
#22 Klamath Falls, OR 744 142
#23 Springfield, OR 735 222
#24 Medford, OR 681 225
#25 Philomath, OR 540 87

Top Inventors in Oregon All Time

Rank Inventor City Company Patents
1 Leonard Forbes Corvallis Micron 1,109
2 Kai-Li Jiang Corvallis Foxconn 637
3 Jack T. Kavalieros Portland Intel 627
#4 Geoffrey B. Rhoads West Linn Digimarc 608
#5 Jeffrey P. Gambino Gresham IBM 584
#6 Dae Won Lee Portland LG 573
#7 Gang Xiong Portland Apple 511
#8 Tahir Ghani Portland Intel 504
#9 Ned M. Smith Beaverton Intel 498
#10 Robert S. Chau Beaverton Intel 495
#11 Sasikanth Manipatruni Portland Kepler Computing 411
#12 Gilbert Dewey Beaverton Intel 398
#13 Ravi Pillarisetty Portland Intel 395
#14 Marko Radosavljevic Portland Intel 380
#15 Brian S. Doyle Portland Intel 378
#16 Willy Rachmady Beaverton Intel 361
#17 Anand S. Murthy Portland Intel 348
#18 Robert J. Stacey Portland Intel 342
#19 Chien-Hua Chen Corvallis HP 336
#20 David M. Durham Beaverton Intel 326
#20 Andrew G. V. Oldknow Beaverton Nike 326
#22 Tinker L. Hatfield Portland Nike 324
#23 Matthew V. Metz Portland Intel 308
#24 Patrick S. Dolan Portland Dolan Designs Incorporated 298
#25 Tony F. Rodriguez Portland Digimarc 286

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