Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Los Gatos, CA ranks #49 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 1,845 patents from 658 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Los Gatos, CA include Apple, Micron, Disney. That works out to 55.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 658 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Bartley K. Andre Apple 196
2 Alexandros Tourapis Apple 25
3 William H. Radke Micron 23
3 Sudhir Srinivasa Disney 23
#5 Ian Shaeffer Rambus 21
#5 Jin Li Microsoft 21
#7 James M. Barton Tivo 17
#8 Kohei Azumi Japan Display 16
#8 Arun G. Mathias Apple 16
#10 Peter Michael Cazalet Google 15
#11 Jeffrey J. Terlizzi Apple 14
#12 Ru-Ying Tong Headway Technologies 13
#12 Steve Porter Hotelling Apple 13
#14 Charles Abraham Broadcom 11
#14 Pantas Sutardja Disney 11
#14 Kirk J. Krauss IBM 11
#17 Tiziano Pastore Power Integrations 10
#17 John B. Morrell Apple 10
#17 Richard J. Brown Avogy 10
#17 Yury Uralsky NVIDIA 10
#17 Prasenjit Sarkar IBM 10
#17 Badri Amurthur Livanova Usa 10
#17 Jarkko L. Kneckt Apple 10
#17 Weijie Zhao Beijing Boe Optoelectronics Technology Co. 10
#25 Richard Williamson Apple 9
#25 Koichi Yamada Intel 9
#27 Samir N. Hulyalkar Dolby Laboratories Licensing 8
#27 Joseph Jun Cao Disney 8
#27 David Hoenig Lyve Minds 8
#27 Aaftab Munshi Apple 8
#27 David L. Brown Kla-Tencor 8
#27 Austin H. Lesea AMD 8
#33 Yuichi Taguchi Hitachi 7
#33 Mihnea Calin Pacurariu Apple 7
#33 Peter Vaughan Power Integrations 7
#33 Andrew P. Bright Apple 7
#33 Curtis Schwebke Wyse Technology L.L.C. 7
#33 Peter F. Holland Apple 7
#33 Timothy Canepa Seagate Technology 7
#33 Oleg Rombakh Dell Products 7
#33 Pavel Cisler Apple 7
#33 Kenneth M. Martin Immersion 7
#33 Keyvan Mohajer Soundhound 7
#33 Michael C. Stephens, Jr. Iii Holdings 12 7
#33 Levon Dolbakian Amazon 7
#33 Jeffery Theodore Lee Apple 7
#47 Erik van der Burg Atritech 6
#47 Grace Hsiu-Ling Chen Kla-Tencor 6
#47 Christopher Wilk Apple 6
#47 Virendra V. Rana Applied Materials 6

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