Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Milpitas, CA ranks #115 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 922 patents from 448 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Milpitas, CA include Synaptics Incorporated, Invensas, Hewlett Packard Enterprise. That works out to 11.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 448 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Joseph Kurth Reynolds Synaptics Incorporated 21
2 Liang Wang Invensas 14
3 Marco Fiorentino Hewlett Packard Enterprise 13
#4 Hironori Araki Headway Technologies 12
#5 Kapil Chhabra Disney 11
#5 Sateesh Koka Sandisk Technologies 11
#5 Gautam Bhanage Cisco 11
#8 Sagar Magia Sandisk Technologies 10
#8 Lingxing Yuan Google 10
#8 Raymond G. Beausoleil Hewlett Packard Enterprise 10
#11 Yin Qian Omnivision Technologies 9
#11 Khanh Nguyen Sandisk Technologies 9
#13 Cheng-Ho Yu Apple 8
#13 Ben-Heng Juang Apple 8
#15 Shivank Nayak Qualcomm 7
#15 Mandar B. Pandit Applied Materials 7
#15 Philip R. Graham Cisco 7
#15 Jayesh Nath Apple 7
#15 Yuhui Tang Headway Technologies 7
#20 Trent K. Do Apple 6
#20 Yukinori Ikegawa Headway Technologies 6
#20 Arun Kumar Ford 6
#20 Eric Li Sct Technology 6
#20 Zhenlei Shen Micron 6
#20 Irfan Rahim Intel 6
#20 Liang Yan Dialog Semiconductor 6
#20 Ajoy K. Singh Apple 6
#20 Yasuhiro Matsui Finisar 6
#20 Gautam Dusija Sandisk Technologies 6
#30 Jovana Nazor Codexis 5
#30 Hai Sun Western Digital (Fremont) 5
#30 Roman Chepulskyy Samsung 5
#30 Daisuke Shimizu Applied Materials 5
#30 Hyojun Kim LG 5
#30 Ravi Iyengar Samsung 5
#30 Young-Jin Yoon Samsung 5
#37 XIAO-ZHENG LI Foxconn 4
#37 Sebastien X. Beysserie Apple 4
#37 Siu-Kei Tin Canon 4
#37 Hideo Mamiya Headway Technologies 4
#37 Srinivas Vadrevu Yahoo Holdings 4
#37 Chaoming Zeng Aviat U.S. 4
#37 Timothy Michaelson Applied Materials 4
#37 Kevin Siegel Visa 4
#37 Giao Minh Pham Power Integrations 4
#37 Richard Sinn Adobe 4
#37 Shang-Kuan Tang Sct Technology 4
#37 Seiichiro Tomita Headway Technologies 4
#37 Premal Parekh Blackberry Limited 4
#37 Mathias Samuel Fleck X Development 4

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