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Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Stanford, CA ranks #452 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 295 patents from 174 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Stanford, CA include Stanford University, Caltech, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba. That works out to 13.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 174 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Karl Deisseroth Stanford University 12
2 Irving L. Weissman Stanford University 9
2 Stephen R. Quake Caltech 9
#4 Ken Takeuchi Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 6
#4 Marc-Allen Cartright Google 6
#4 Geoffrey C. Gurtner Stanford University 6
#7 Patrick O'Reilly Brown Impossible Foods 5
#7 Timothy David Kentley Zoox 5
#7 Zhenan Bao Stanford University 5
#7 Arogyaswami Paulraj Intel 5
#11 H.-S. Philip Wong Stanford University 4
#11 Richard M. Yoo Intel 4
#11 Richard N. Zare Stanford University 4
#14 John T. Gill The Toro 3
#14 Michael Snyder Made In Space 3
#14 Scott L. Delp Cala Health 3
#14 Shreyas S. Vasanawala Stanford University 3
#14 Bernd Girod Stanford University 3
#14 Matthew J. Callaghan Lxs 3
#14 Brendan Hamel-Bissell Finisar 3
#14 Anthony J. Ricci Lam Research 3
#14 Stanley N. Cohen Stanford University 3
#14 John M. Pauly Stanford University 3
#14 Samuel Strober Stanford University 3
#14 Andrei Iancu Stanford University 3
#14 John R. Adler Varian Medical Systems 3
#14 Jennifer R. Cochran Stanford University 3
#14 Lauren Aquino Shluzas Depuy Synthes Products 3
#29 Shanhui Fan Stanford University 2
#29 Aryan Hazeghi Aquifi 2
#29 Zixiao Zhang Meta 2
#29 Drew Hall Stanford University 2
#29 Bingwei Lu Stanford University 2
#29 David Miklos Pharmacyclics 2
#29 Jacob A. Marks Medos International Sarl 2
#29 Fu-Kuo Chang Acellent Technologies 2
#29 Anshul Mittal IBM 2
#29 Alan Sellinger Canon 2
#29 Michael T. Longaker Stanford University 2
#29 Andrew J. Perlman Menlo Therapeutics 2
#29 Leonore A. Herzenberg Stanford University 2
#29 Adam Backer Verily Life Sciences 2
#29 Alfred M. Spormann Stanford University 2
#29 David J. Wu Microsoft 2
#29 Robert Lowsky Stanford University 2
#29 Lei S. Qi Stanford University 2
#29 Timothy David Kentley-Klay Zoox 2
#29 Ansuman Tapan Satpathy Google 2
#29 Mark M. Davis Stanford University 2
#29 David Leigh Donoho Bigfix 2

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