Bellevue, Washington lab is an inventor’s real dream. Intellectual Ventures

Some retirees set up a shop to tinker in the garage.

After Nathan Myhrvold left Microsoft in 2000, he created something that would make the British Royal Society drool — a vast laboratory and intellectual salon where some of the smartest and richest people in the world get together and invent stuff.

Since Intellectual Ventures http://www.intellectualventures.com/ was started in 2000, it has become one of the top 25 research institutions in the country and the top 50 in the world, based on its annual output of 500 to 600 patents, Myhrvold said.

By Brier Dudley

Seattle Times senior technology reporter

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