Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Newark, CA ranks #510 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 242 patents from 127 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Newark, CA include Neodyne Biosciences, Pacific Biosciences Of California, Xiamen University. That works out to 5.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 127 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Jasper Jackson Neodyne Biosciences 9
2 Jonas Korlach Pacific Biosciences Of California 8
3 Shaowei Li Xiamen University 7
3 Kevin C. Wong General Motors 7
3 Yao Li Alliance Fiber Optic Products 7
#6 Di Wu Medtronic 6
#6 David S. Kuo Seagate Technology 6
#6 Srikumar Subramanian American Megatrends 6
#9 James Thomas O'Keeffe Sunlighten 5
#10 Sachin Shrimant Sawant Tesla 4
#10 Jon Brian Ehlen Meta 4
#10 Olga Viktorovna Lapina Gilead Sciences 4
#10 Pawan Nachnani Salesforce 4
#14 Henry Povolny Lam Research 3
#14 Hao Zhang Globalfoundries 3
#14 Noam Sapiens Kla-Tencor 3
#14 Richard Titmuss British Telecommunications Public Limited 3
#14 Qifan Chen Qualcomm 3
#14 Devon Wang Samsung 3
#14 Bomy Chen Silicon Storage Technology 3
#14 Benjamin S. Bower Danisco Us 3
#14 Munetoshi Fukami Apple 3
#14 Michael Murphy NVIDIA 3
#14 Robert Garabedian Boston Scientific Scimed 3
#25 Nan Shi Dialog Semiconductor 2
#25 Sidiq Farooq Santen Pharmaceutical Co. 2
#25 Keith Chan Samsung 2
#25 Samuel E. Metobo Gilead Sciences 2
#25 William P. Freeman Nanosys 2
#25 James Su Intersect Ent 2
#25 John E. Burky AbbVie 2
#25 Jonathan Hsu Sandisk Technologies 2
#25 Mathieu Foquet Pacific Biosciences Of California 2
#25 Kuldip C. Shodhan 2
#25 Praveen Varma Penmetsa Zimeno 2
#25 Anil Samudrala Sap Se 2
#25 Adam C. Sherman Nvent Services Gmbh 2
#25 James B. Colvin Alpha Innotech 2
#25 Ken Lucchesi Lam Research 2
#25 Samantha Tan Lam Research 2
#25 Andrew Tai-Chin Kuo Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 2
#25 Vien-Phuong Nguyen Headwater Research 2
#25 Jomy Maliakal American Megatrends 2
#25 Jesse Chau A123 Systems 2
#25 Li Yang Southwest University Of Science And Technology 2
#25 Pablo Acosta Vibrynt 2
#25 Vishal Gupta Mallinckrodt 2
#25 Matthew L. Miller Applied Materials 2
#25 Sujeet Kumar Nanogram 2
#25 Sandeep Narla Tesla 2

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