Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Dublin, CA ranks #249 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 468 patents from 226 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Dublin, CA include Qualcomm, Apple, Western Digital (Fremont). That works out to 6.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 226 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Dipanjan Sen Qualcomm 15
2 Sreevalsan Vallath Apple 12
3 Ming Mao Western Digital (Fremont) 11
3 Kyoungsoo Moon LG 11
#5 Shoichiro Sengoku Qualcomm 9
#5 Ravindra V. Shenoy Qualcomm 9
#7 Manish Arora AMD 8
#7 Seon Ki Kim Samsung 8
#9 Artur Kolics Lam Research 7
#9 Zhijian Lin Cellco Partnership 7
#9 Sunil Hadap Adobe 7
#12 Mahesh Ramachandran Qualcomm 6
#12 Rongfu Xiao Western Digital (Fremont) 6
#12 Sandeep Kumar Goel Tsmc Nanjing Company, Limited 6
#12 Michael Newman Invensas 6
#12 Xiaoyu Liu Samsung 6
#12 Raul E. Silvera IBM 6
#12 John Dinh Adesto Technologies 6
#12 Sam Padinjaremannil Alex Broadcom 6
#20 Michael P. O'Neil Nellcor Puritan Bennett 5
#20 Yuwen Liu Coopervision International Limited 5
#22 Kartheek Chandu Ricoh Production Print Solutions 4
#22 Ashwin Swaminathan Qualcomm 4
#22 Shreekanth Ankala Broadcom 4
#22 Naeem Akhtar Wandisco 4
#22 Dmitry Limonov Emc 4
#22 Babak Hodjat Cognizant Technology Solutions U.S. 4
#22 Glenn K. Fu Becton, Dickinson And 4
#22 Hormoz Shahrzad Cognizant Technology Solutions U.S. 4
#22 Angela C. Tooker Lawrence Livermore National Security 4
#31 Chaitanya Arekar Avago Technologies General Ip (Singapore) Pte. 3
#31 Devendra Rajkumar Jaisinghani PayPal 3
#31 James L. Lester Adobe 3
#31 Daniel Merrick Neotract 3
#31 Patrick H. Ruane Cook Medical Technologies 3
#31 Fredrik Erik Linder Satori Worldwide 3
#31 Yongwang Ding Qualcomm 3
#31 Christopher D. Wanha Molex 3
#31 Mark A. Mitchell Lawrence Livermore National Security 3
#31 Adetokunbo Bamidele Nokia 3
#31 Ji Yan Microsoft 3
#31 Albert Alec Talin Motorola 3
#31 Lie Lu Dolby Laboratories Licensing 3
#31 Parag R. Maharana Micron 3
#31 Wei Wang Phillips 66 3
#31 Kuo-Chiang Chen Schlumberger Technology 3
#31 Swaroop Venkatesh Disney 3
#31 Wenhui Jia Dolby Laboratories Licensing 3
#49 Humera A. Rafique Lummus Technology 2
#49 Danu Tjahjono 2

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