Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Cupertino, CA ranks #23 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 3,741 patents from 1,508 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Cupertino, CA include Hand Held Products, Apple, Qualcomm. That works out to 62.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,508 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Ynjiun P. Wang Hand Held Products 41
2 Shih Chang Chang Apple 35
3 Ravi Palanki Qualcomm 33
#4 Hui Zang Globalfoundries 32
#5 Li Su Apple 28
#6 Yunxiang Wu Seagate Technology 27
#7 Hong He Apple 26
#8 Pankaj Thakkar Nicira 24
#9 Keiji Mabuchi Sony 22
#10 Yung-Ho Alex Chuang Kla-Tencor 21
#10 Masaaki Higashitani Sandisk Technologies 21
#12 Navid Damji Apple 20
#12 Daewon Lee LG 20
#12 Yuniarto Widjaja Zeno Semiconductor 20
#15 Gengsheng Zhang Qualcomm 19
#16 Peter Rabkin Sandisk Technologies 18
#16 Christoph H. Krah Apple 18
#18 Murali Narasimha Motorola Mobility 17
#19 Tiffany S. Jon Apple 16
#19 Jiang Zhu Tencent 16
#19 Sang Soo Lee KAIST 16
#19 Pradeep Iyer Aruba Networks 16
#19 Gang He Honeywell 16
#19 Ayman Fawzy Naguib Qualcomm 16
#25 Qingxiang Li Apple 14
#25 Henry Allan Rowley Google 14
#25 Jizhang Shan Omnivision Technologies 14
#28 Joe S. Abuan Apple 13
#28 Zhu Ji Apple 13
#28 Nuwan Jayasena AMD 13
#28 Cheng-Hsiung Tsai TSMC 13
#28 Mostafa Tofighbakhsh AT&T 13
#33 Shahrnaz Azizi Intel 12
#33 Debdeep Chatterjee Apple 12
#33 Richard K. Williams Advanced Analogic Technologies Incorporated 12
#33 Kyung Suk Oh Rambus 12
#37 Harish Ramamurthy Disney 11
#37 Pradeep Jnana Madhavarapu Amazon 11
#37 Navindra Yadav Cisco 11
#37 Hui Nie Avogy 11
#37 Seungheon Lee Gopro 11
#37 Benyamin Buller Velo3D 11
#37 Carlos Cordeiro Apple 11
#37 Jose Pio Pereira Netlogic Microsystems 11
#37 Abhijit Choudhury Juniper Networks 11
#37 Dmitry Lubomirsky Applied Materials 11
#47 Todd K. Whitehurst Boston Scientific 10
#47 Xiangying Yang Apple 10
#47 Ralph Brunner Apple 10
#47 David P. Bour Xerox 10

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