Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Foster City, CA ranks #132 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 823 patents from 385 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Foster City, CA include Cisco, IBM, Visa. That works out to 24.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 385 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Jonathan W. Hui Cisco 51
2 Madhusudan K. Iyengar IBM 43
3 Ayman Hammad Visa 14
#4 Orit Foord AbbVie 13
#5 Horia Simionescu Avago Technologies General Ip (Singapore) Pte. 10
#6 Somasekhar Bhamidipati Rigel Pharmaceuticals 9
#6 Xiangping Qian Cytokinetics 9
#6 Eric McCallister Bennett Gopro 9
#6 Hui Shao AbbVie 9
#10 Victor Octav Suba Miura 7
#10 Jonathan Clive Tripp Bristol-Myers Squibb 7
#10 Caleb E. Welton Emc 7
#10 Jongmin Baek Samsung 7
#10 Yeturu Aahlad Wandisco 7
#15 Andrew Buchanan Gault Sony 6
#15 Michael P. Arend Fibrogen 6
#17 Heiko Maiwand Volkswagen 5
#17 Qing Xu Global Blood Therapeutics 5
#17 Yajun Zheng Vitae Pharmaceuticals 5
#17 Aditya R. Ganjam Conviva 5
#17 Jimmy Yu Brightedge Technologies 5
#17 Katsumi Nagata Toyota 5
#17 Taeho Kgil Visa 5
#17 Fang Wang Gilead Pharmasset 5
#25 Penglie Zhang Chemocentryx 4
#25 Vadim Khmelnitsky Apple 4
#25 Shumei Wang Genentech 4
#25 Yan Wang Bio-Rad Laboratories 4
#25 Feng Tian Mks Instruments 4
#25 Krishnakumar Ramamoorthy Caterpillar 4
#25 Michael George Farley Tile 4
#25 Vikram Pavate Apple 4
#25 Rahul Kashyap Bromium 4
#25 Ryan McFadden Gilead Sciences 4
#25 Zhongxu Ren Nektar Therapeutics 4
#25 Mohamed Soliman Halliburton Energy Services 4
#25 Hongtao Liu Gilead Sciences 4
#25 Britton Kenneth Corkey Gilead Sciences 4
#25 Sanjeev Gangwar Bristol-Myers Squibb 4
#25 Barbara Gibb Neuropace 4
#25 David Kung Power Integrations 4
#25 Ish K. Dhawan Codexis 4
#25 Richard Marks Sony 4
#25 Yadunandana Yellambalase Nio Usa 4
#25 Mark A. Collins View 4
#46 Simon Hurry Visa 3
#46 Jyoti Asundi Genentech 3
#46 James B. Burr Oracle 3
#46 Rajkumar Sen Oracle 3
#46 Victor Lu TSMC 3

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