Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Cupertino, CA ranks #26 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 3,637 patents from 1,468 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Cupertino, CA include Globalfoundries, Apple, Intel. That works out to 60.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,468 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Hui Zang Globalfoundries 43
2 Shih Chang Chang Apple 38
3 Shahrnaz Azizi Intel 33
#4 Hong He Apple 31
#5 Keiji Mabuchi Sony 25
#6 Yuniarto Widjaja Zeno Semiconductor 24
#7 Navid Damji Apple 23
#7 Ravi Palanki Qualcomm 23
#9 Debdeep Chatterjee Apple 20
#9 Li Su Apple 20
#9 Jiang Zhu Tencent 20
#12 Dmitry Lubomirsky Applied Materials 19
#12 Jun Zhai Apple 19
#12 Arnab Sanat Kumar Dhua Amazon 19
#15 Tiffany S. Jon Apple 18
#15 Ynjiun P. Wang Hand Held Products 18
#17 Guoqing Li Apple 17
#18 Gang He Honeywell 16
#18 Cheng-Hsiung Tsai TSMC 16
#20 Daewon Lee LG 15
#20 Tianyu Wu Apple 15
#20 Mansu Kim ExxonMobil 15
#20 Douglas J. Weber Apple 15
#20 Sang Soo Lee KAIST 15
#25 Mostafa Tofighbakhsh AT&T 14
#25 Marcelo Lamego Masimo 14
#27 Shilpa Talwar Intel 13
#27 Chunhua Li Align Technology 13
#27 Paolo Sacchetto Apple 13
#30 Yung-Ho Alex Chuang Kla-Tencor 12
#30 Carlos Cordeiro Apple 12
#30 Debargha Mukherjee Google 12
#30 Victor H. Yin Apple 12
#30 Jason Sean Gagne-Keats Essential Products 12
#30 Christoph H. Krah Apple 12
#30 Seungheon Lee Gopro 12
#30 Mohit Narang Apple 12
#38 Murali Narasimha Motorola Mobility 11
#38 Navindra Yadav Cisco 11
#38 Omar S. Leung Apple 11
#38 Parmanand Mishra Inphi 11
#38 Karthik Gopalakrishnan Inphi 11
#38 Masaaki Higashitani Sandisk Technologies 11
#44 Sunil Ramesh A9.Com 10
#44 Ashish Singhai Virident Systems 10
#44 Jayant Jain Nicira 10
#44 Kumar Gaurav Broadcom 10
#44 Zhu Ji Apple 10
#44 Mitchell D. Adler Apple 10
#44 Banit Agrawal Broadcom 10

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