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Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Tempe, AZ ranks #276 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 470 patents from 267 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Tempe, AZ include Thunder Power New Energy Vehicle Development Company Limited, onsemi, Arizona Board Of Regents For And On Behalf Of Arizona State University. That works out to 2.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 267 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Jia-Wei Ding Thunder Power New Energy Vehicle Development Company Limited 15
2 Balaji Padmanabhan onsemi 14
3 Jian Li Arizona Board Of Regents For And On Behalf Of Arizona State University 11
#4 Firas Kittaneh Oclu Limited 9
#5 Kemal Aygun Intel 8
#5 Xinjian Lei Versum Materials Us 8
#7 Kshitij A. Doshi Intel 7
#7 Manchao Xiao Versum Materials Us 7
#7 Qinghua Yin Sdcmaterials 7
#10 Timothy L. Youtsey Pct International 6
#10 Zia Hossain onsemi 6
#12 Mihir Mudholkar onsemi 5
#12 Chia-Pin Chiu Intel 5
#14 Madan Mohan Reddy Vemula Nxp B.V. 4
#14 Edouard D. de Frésart Freeescale Semiconductor 4
#14 Stephen Johnston Arizona Board Of Regents For And On Behalf Of Arizona State University 4
#14 Rajiv Rana Honeywell 4
#14 Derek Michael Underhill The Noco 4
#14 Gregg A. Hollingsworth Spl Industries Usa 4
#14 Gary H. Loechelt onsemi 4
#14 Malak Fouad Malak Honeywell 4
#14 Kevin Yi Cheng Chang Dialog Semiconductor (Uk) Limited 4
#14 David A. Hoffman IBM 4
#14 Richard Alexander Erhart Synaptics Incorporated 4
#14 Ian Kobe Bbk Tobacco & Foods, Llp 4
#26 Emmett Howard Motorola 3
#26 Randall C. Gray Motorola 3
#26 Sin Lin Wu Intel 3
#26 Steven D. Veatch 3
#26 Robert A. Spinneweber Allstate Insurance 3
#26 David C. Burdeaux Freeescale Semiconductor 3
#26 Yasser Salah Printed Energy Pty 3
#26 Qiang Shen Qualcomm 3
#26 Daniel A. Buttry Arizona Board Of Regents For And On Behalf Of Arizona State University 3
#26 Srivatsan Chellappa IBM 3
#26 Jordan Cluster Edge 3 Technologies 3
#26 Chris Matthieu Citrix Systems 3
#26 Roger D. St. Amand Amkor Technology 3
#39 Amandine Miner Honeywell 2
#39 Henry Wong Motorola 2
#39 Nathan Cahill Eastman Kodak 2
#39 Audel A. Sanchez Nxp Usa 2
#39 David L. Bogert C.R. Bard 2
#39 Clarence J. Tracy Motorola 2
#39 Sonu Daryanani Microchip Technology Incorporated 2
#39 Pat Brouillette Roku 2
#39 Joseph T. Smith Arizona Board Of Regents For And On Behalf Of Arizona State University 2
#39 Richard R. King The Boeing 2
#39 Grant A. MacLennan Ctm Magnetics ,Inc 2
#39 Mark A. Maass Medtronic 2

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