Top Inventors in Sunnyvale, CA — 2016

Sunnyvale, CA ranks #15 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 5,733 patents from 2,581 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Sunnyvale, CA include Intel, Apple, Google. That works out to 36.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 2,581 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Jong-Kae Fwu	Intel	58
2	Mo-Han Fong	Apple	53
3	Robertus Christianus Elisabeth Mariet	Google	32
#4	Hui-Ling Lou	Disney	29
#5	Ludovic Godet	Applied Materials	28
#6	Raja Banerjea	Disney	26
#7	Rohit U. Nabar	Disney	24
#8	Madhur Bobde	Alpha And Omega Semiconductor	23
#9	Maj Isabelle Olsson	Google	21
#10	Shankar Somasundaram	Interdigital Patent Holdings	20
#10	Liwei Guo	Qualcomm	20
#10	Grant M. Erickson	Google	20
#13	Vage Oganesian	Tessera	19
#13	Wan Si Wan	Apple	19
#15	Tao Zhao	Intuitive Surgical	18
#16	Sung Hyun Jo	Crossbar	16
#16	David Q. Larkin	Reflexion Medical	16
#18	Amit Kumar	Avnera	15
#19	Yoshimichi Matsuoka	Google	14
#19	Brian F. Saunders	Igt	14
#19	Junlan Zhou	Google	14
#22	John To	Atheromed	13
#22	Hidenori Tanaka	Canon	13
#22	Shigeki Tanemura	Headway Technologies	13
#22	Amir Amirkhany	Rambus	13
#22	Balineedu Chowdary Adsumilli	Gopro	13
#22	Hariharan Kolam	Instart Logic	13
#22	Thomas W. Myers	Roche Molecular Systems	13
#22	Yueh-Se Ho	Alpha And Omega Semiconductor	13
#22	Xikun Wang	Applied Materials	13
#22	Mayank Jain	Kumu Networks	13
#32	Daniel W. Jarvis	Apple	12
#32	Dhananjaya Rao	Cisco	12
#32	David W. Mendel	Intel	12
#32	Zheng Gao	Apple	12
#32	Richard C. Gossweiler, III	Google	12
#32	Zhi-Wen Sun	Intermolecular	12
#38	Arjang M. Hourtash	Intuitive Surgical	11
#38	Frank Shum	Soraa	11
#38	Vijayshankar Raman	IBM	11
#38	Kenneth L. Wright	IBM	11
#38	Andrew Frazier	Aerin Medical	11
#38	James J. Kuffner, Jr.	Google	11
#38	Nate Chizgi	Qualcomm	11
#38	Philipp Herget	IBM	11
#46	Linda Romano	Avogy	10
#46	Yuheng Kuang	Google	10
#46	Daniel J. Quinlan	Juniper Networks	10
#46	Anna-Katrina Shedletsky	Apple	10
#46	Sik Lui	Alpha And Omega Semiconductor	10

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