Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Milpitas, CA ranks #111 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 1,038 patents from 521 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Milpitas, CA include Synaptics Incorporated, Invensas, Disney. That works out to 12.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 521 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Joseph Kurth Reynolds Synaptics Incorporated 29
2 Liang Wang Invensas 20
3 Kapil Chhabra Disney 14
#4 Sateesh Koka Sandisk Technologies 13
#5 Ajoy K. Singh Apple 11
#6 Raymond G. Beausoleil Hewlett Packard Enterprise 10
#7 Yin Qian Omnivision Technologies 9
#7 Kyoung Wook Seok Ixys 9
#9 Yukinori Ikegawa Headway Technologies 8
#9 Sudhakar Muddu Cisco 8
#9 Hironori Araki Headway Technologies 8
#9 Jovana Nazor Codexis 8
#13 Seiichiro Tomita Headway Technologies 7
#13 Eric Li Sct Technology 7
#13 Hideo Mamiya Headway Technologies 7
#13 Aliasgar Mumtaz Husain Telenav 7
#17 Yuhui Tang Headway Technologies 6
#17 Gautam Dusija Sandisk Technologies 6
#17 Gautam Bhanage Cisco 6
#17 Deepak Raghu Sandisk Technologies 6
#17 Hemant Kumar Jain Fortinet 6
#22 Sebastien X. Beysserie Apple 5
#22 Robert Zelenka Acist Medical Systems 5
#22 Kenichi Takano Headway Technologies 5
#22 Zhenlei Shen Micron 5
#22 David C. Platt Tivo 5
#22 Yang Yue BOE 5
#22 Joji Philip Netspeed Systems 5
#22 Daisuke Shimizu Applied Materials 5
#22 Mikael Mortensen Analog Devices 5
#22 Dubravko Babic Agilent Technologies 5
#22 Hao Zhong Scaleflux 5
#22 Tai-Yuan Tseng Sandisk Technologies 5
#22 Hyojun Kim LG 5
#22 Jayesh Nath Apple 5
#22 Wenguang Shi Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. 5
#37 Vishwesh Pai Ayla Networks 4
#37 Venkatarama Anilkumar Panguluri Gracenote Digital Ventures 4
#37 Ben-Heng Juang Apple 4
#37 Amit Kumar BANSAL Applied Materials 4
#37 Santosh Ramrao Patil Cisco 4
#37 Sandip Shah Juniper Networks 4
#37 Siddharth Thakur Nissan North America 4
#37 Shang-Kuan Tang Sct Technology 4
#37 Jixin Yu Sandisk Technologies 4
#37 Dejan S. Milojicic Hewlett Packard Enterprise 4
#37 Paul Horn Kla-Tencor 4
#37 Thomas A. Beavin IBM 4
#37 Kevin Siegel Visa 4
#37 Giao Minh Pham Power Integrations 4

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