Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Mountain View, CA ranks #17 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 4,621 patents from 2,129 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Mountain View, CA include Medtronic, Comcast, Pure Storage. That works out to 56.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 2,129 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Mark Deem Medtronic 29
2 Wei Xiong Comcast 28
3 John Hayes Pure Storage 23
#4 Richard Wayne DeVaul Google 22
#5 Martin F. Schubert Micron 20
#6 Tao Ma BOE 17
#6 Thomas Vogelsang Rambus 17
#6 Frances B. Haugen Google 17
#6 David A. Fattal Leia 17
#10 Thad Eugene Starner Google 16
#11 Ankur Jain Google 14
#11 Yelena Nabutovsky Pacesetter 14
#11 Craig Ciesla Tactus Technology 14
#14 John Benjamin Filson Apple 13
#14 Rajesh Sundaram Intel 13
#14 Ethan Rublee X Development 13
#14 Ryan Hickman Google 13
#14 Amish Babu Inc Square, Co. 13
#19 Kurt Konolige X Development 12
#19 Nihar Jindal Broadcom 12
#19 Abhijit Ogale Google 12
#19 Vinay R. Majjigi Apple 12
#19 Johnny Lee National Semiconductor 12
#19 Christopher Daryl Soli Apple 12
#19 YooJung Ahn Google 12
#19 Volodymyr V. Ivanchenko Amazon 12
#27 Ranjith Jayaram Qualcomm 11
#27 Johan Land Google 11
#27 Victor Hokkiu Chan Qualcomm 11
#27 Michael D. Hutton Intel 11
#27 Nathaniel Fairfield Google 11
#27 Jonathan Terleski Google 11
#27 Dan Fredinburg Google 11
#34 Gary Yama Robert Bosch Gmbh 10
#34 Brian Patrick Williams Google 10
#34 George Rudenko Solazyme 10
#34 James Koh Kabam, 10
#34 Shahram Izadi Microsoft 10
#34 Djordje Tujkovic Meta 10
#34 Anastasios Kementsietsidis IBM 10
#34 Christopher J. Petti Sandisk Technologies 10
#34 Christopher Paul Urmson Google 10
#34 Rajat Raina Meta 10
#34 Ilya Bezel Kla-Tencor 10
#34 Adam Feder Duelight 10
#34 Badri N. Varadarajan Texas Instruments 10
#47 Michael R. Krames Philips Lumileds Lighting Company 9
#47 Jason Redgrave Tabula 9
#47 Radomir Mech Adobe 9
#47 Matthew Lewis Delphi Technologies 9

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