Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Stanford, CA ranks #399 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 307 patents from 170 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Stanford, CA include Stanford University, Caltech, Applied Materials. That works out to 14.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 170 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Karl Deisseroth Stanford University 19
2 Stephen R. Quake Caltech 12
3 Zhenan Bao Stanford University 7
#4 Geoffrey C. Gurtner Stanford University 6
#4 Ching-Mei Hsu Applied Materials 6
#6 Ansuman Tapan Satpathy Google 5
#6 Jennifer R. Cochran Stanford University 5
#6 Alexander Shraer Google 5
#6 Arogyaswami Paulraj Intel 5
#6 Richard N. Zare Stanford University 5
#6 Olav Solgaard Stanford University 5
#12 Sami G. Tantawi Stanford University 4
#12 Eric T. Kool Stanford University 4
#12 Sam D'Amico Google 4
#15 Philip A. Beachy Johns Hopkins University School Of Medicine 3
#15 Irving L. Weissman Stanford University 3
#15 Samuel Strober Stanford University 3
#15 Joseph Wu Stanford University 3
#15 Michael D. Dake Revance Therapeutics 3
#15 Aryan Hazeghi Aquifi 3
#15 Richard M. Yoo Intel 3
#15 John R. Adler Varian Medical Systems 3
#15 Shanhui Fan Stanford University 3
#15 R. Fabian W. Pease Brion Technologies 3
#15 Timothy David Kentley Zoox 3
#15 Joshua Weinstein Stanford University 3
#15 Bernd Girod Stanford University 3
#15 Andrew J. Perlman Menlo Therapeutics 3
#15 Michael T. Longaker Stanford University 3
#30 Wing H. Wong Stanford University 2
#30 Jose P. Joseph Sri International 2
#30 Tianyi Zhang Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. Of Zhuhai 2
#30 Xiaolin Zheng Stanford University 2
#30 Robert C. Robbins Stanford University 2
#30 Marc Safran Djo 2
#30 Jason Ryan US Dept of Commerce 2
#30 Susan Knox Epicentrx 2
#30 Hailiang Wang Xiamen Tianma Micro-Electronics Co. 2
#30 Onur Can Akkaya Microsoft 2
#30 Onur Fidaner Solar Junction 2
#30 Andrew Best Cypress Semiconductor 2
#30 Paul Nuyujukian Stanford University 2
#30 Shang-Hsuan Tsai Nokia 2
#30 Bingwei Lu Stanford University 2
#30 Jacob A. Marks Medos International Sarl 2
#30 Andrei Iancu Stanford University 2
#30 James T. Link Abbott 2
#30 Mark M. Davis Stanford University 2
#30 Krishna V. Shenoy Stanford University 2
#30 Scott L. Delp Cala Health 2

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