Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Fremont, CA ranks #22 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 3,817 patents from 1,686 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Fremont, CA include Disney, IBM, Ericsson. That works out to 16.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,686 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Hongyuan Zhang Disney 68
2 Keshav G. Kamble IBM 41
3 Jung-Fu Cheng Ericsson 26
#4 Chia-Liang Lin Realtek Semiconductor 20
#4 Yi-Pin Eric Wang Ericsson 20
#6 Johnson O. Sebeni Apple 19
#6 Peiman Amini Netgear 19
#8 Soo Young Choi Applied Materials 18
#9 Liang Pang Sandisk Technologies 17
#10 Micah B. Yairi Tactus Technology 16
#10 Sourabh Satish Broadcom 16
#10 Jiahui Yuan Sandisk Technologies 16
#13 Kiran Pangal Intel 15
#13 Zhigang Bai Western Digital (Fremont) 15
#13 Puneet Gupta Tela Innovations 15
#13 Yue Liu Headway Technologies 15
#13 Man Lung Mui Sandisk Technologies 15
#18 Srinivas Katar Qualcomm 14
#18 Craig Lin E Ink California 14
#20 Nitin Gupta Google 13
#20 Priscilla Lau Verizon 13
#20 Ching-Huang Lu Sandisk Technologies 13
#23 Stephane H. Maes Oracle 12
#23 Abhijit Basu Mallick Applied Materials 12
#23 Erwin Satrya Budiman Abbott 12
#23 Rahul Sharangpani Sandisk Technologies 12
#23 Weifeng Liu Flextronics Ap 12
#28 Deepanshu Dutta Sandisk Technologies 11
#28 Min Li Headway Technologies 11
#30 Lijuan Zhang IBM 10
#30 Rajendra D. Pendse Stats Chippac 10
#30 Ashar Aziz Fireeye 10
#30 David Chiang Verizon 10
#30 Sheng Tai Tsao Unknown 10
#30 Vivek Jain Robert Bosch Gmbh 10
#30 Kunliang Zhang Headway Technologies 10
#30 Phanidhar Koganti Brocade Communications Systems 10
#30 Haichun Huang Bristol-Myers Squibb 10
#30 Bruce L. Bateman Unity Semiconductor 10
#40 Kim Y. Lee Seagate Technology 9
#40 Hung Quoc Nguyen Silicon Storage Technology 9
#40 Jennifer K. Lam AT&T 9
#40 Kishor Desai IBM 9
#40 Michael C. Smayling Tela Innovations 9
#40 Tao Tong Bridgelux 9
#40 Joshua P. Davies Gopro 9
#40 William H. Sheu Purplecomm 9
#40 Daniel Schweigert Guardian Glass 9
#40 Nagaraj Bagepalli Cisco 9
#40 Matthew P. Casebolt Apple 9

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