Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Fremont, CA ranks #23 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 3,894 patents from 1,740 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Fremont, CA include Disney, Pdf Solutions, IBM. That works out to 16.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,740 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Hongyuan Zhang Disney 64
2 Stephen Lam Pdf Solutions 37
3 Keshav G. Kamble IBM 35
#4 Jung-Fu Cheng Ericsson 31
#5 Dirk Robert Walter Leipold Qorvo Us 25
#6 Chittabrata Ghosh Intel 24
#7 Johnson O. Sebeni Apple 19
#8 Yi-Pin Eric Wang Ericsson 18
#8 Kiran Pangal Intel 18
#10 Liang Pang Sandisk Technologies 17
#10 Jennifer Y. Sun Applied Materials 17
#10 Rahul Sharangpani Sandisk Technologies 17
#13 Deepanshu Dutta Sandisk Technologies 16
#14 Weifeng Liu Flextronics Ap 15
#14 Srinivas Katar Qualcomm 15
#14 Vinay Damodar Shet Google 15
#17 Erwin Satrya Budiman Abbott 14
#17 Ratnesh Sharma HP 14
#17 Taeyoung Kim Samsung 14
#17 Priscilla Lau Verizon 14
#21 Ajit Nimbalker Motorola Mobility 13
#21 Samuel Chen Trend Micro Incorporated 13
#21 Phanidhar Koganti Brocade Communications Systems 13
#21 Bruce L. Bateman Unity Semiconductor 13
#25 Katrina Chan Intel 12
#25 Soo Young Choi Applied Materials 12
#27 Kim Y. Lee Seagate Technology 11
#27 Ashar Aziz Fireeye 11
#27 Zhike Jia Disney 11
#27 Huadong Gan Avalanche Technology 11
#27 Michael C. Smayling Tela Innovations 11
#27 Vinay Sawal Dell Products 11
#27 Xiyun Zhang Codexis 11
#27 Shirish Gadre NVIDIA 11
#27 Fei Mao Abbott 11
#27 Nageen Himayat Intel 11
#37 Sourabh Satish Broadcom 10
#37 Santosh Ghanshyam Pandey Cisco 10
#37 Peiman Amini Netgear 10
#37 Ching-Huang Lu Sandisk Technologies 10
#37 Zhigang Bai Western Digital (Fremont) 10
#37 Guozhong Shen Synaptics Incorporated 10
#43 Wen-Syan Li Sap Se 9
#43 Shicong Meng IBM 9
#43 Ravi H. Motwani Intel 9
#43 Jin Liu Sandisk Technologies 9
#43 Anwesha Samanta Salesforce 9
#43 Matthew P. Casebolt Apple 9
#43 Oscar Alvizo Codexis 9
#43 Feng Pan Micron 9

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