Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Mountain View, CA ranks #17 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 4,843 patents from 2,209 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Mountain View, CA include Comcast, Pure Storage, Essential Products. That works out to 58.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 2,209 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Wei Xiong Comcast 36
2 John Hayes Pure Storage 28
3 Xinrui Jiang Essential Products 23
#4 Mark Deem Medtronic 19
#4 Nathaniel Fairfield Google 19
#6 Martin F. Schubert Micron 17
#7 Prabha N. Ibrahim Plexxikon 15
#7 Jonathan Siegel Google 15
#7 Nian Niles Yang Sandisk Technologies 15
#7 Shahram Izadi Microsoft 15
#11 Tao Ma BOE 14
#11 Carlos Horacio Aldana Qualcomm 14
#13 James Etzkorn Verily Life Sciences 13
#13 George Xie Lunera Lighting 13
#13 Michael R. Krames Philips Lumileds Lighting Company 13
#16 Vinay R. Majjigi Apple 12
#16 Thad Eugene Starner Google 12
#16 Alexander Faaborg Google 12
#19 Gabriel Harley Sunpower 11
#19 James Koh Kabam, 11
#19 Ashok N. Srivastava Verizon 11
#19 Pengtao Yu Anhui Huami Information Technology Co. 11
#19 Christopher J. Petti Sandisk Technologies 11
#19 Donald James Lindsay Blackberry Limited 11
#19 Nihar Jindal Broadcom 11
#19 David Harrison Free Stream Media 11
#19 John Benjamin Filson Apple 11
#19 Timothy J. Millet Apple 11
#29 Richard Wayne DeVaul Google 10
#29 Thomas Vogelsang Rambus 10
#29 Micah Thomas Collins Google 10
#29 Liron Shapira Samsung 10
#29 Paul W. Mohr Intuitive Surgical 10
#29 Pradeep G. Jain Alcatel Lucent 10
#29 Ankur Jain Google 10
#29 Zihui Wang Avalanche Technology 10
#29 Roman Lewkow Google 10
#29 Brian D. Hoffman Intuitive Surgical 10
#29 Ankit Jain Cisco 10
#40 Abhijit Ogale Google 9
#40 Ilya Bezel Kla-Tencor 9
#40 Vikram Singh Bajaj Verily Life Sciences 9
#40 Paul J. Thompson Apple 9
#40 Brian Patrick Williams Google 9
#40 Ethan Rublee X Development 9
#40 Elbert E. Huang IBM 9
#40 Jonathan Diorio Google 9
#48 Xiaoxi Shi Anhui Huami Information Technology Co. 8
#48 Gilwoo Choi Heartflow 8
#48 Jianting Cao Pure Storage 8

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