Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Woodside, CA ranks #307 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 419 patents from 110 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Woodside, CA include Apple, Medtronic, Rambus. That works out to 78.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 110 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Christopher J. Stringer Apple 129
2 Hanson S. Gifford, III Medtronic 24
3 Jared L. Zerbe Rambus 18
#4 Christopher M. Green Apple 13
#5 Stephen J. Brown Health Hero Network 11
#6 Benjamin J. Pope Apple 10
#6 Jeffrey Linnell X Development 10
#8 Henry Packard Moreton NVIDIA 9
#9 Kevin Lynch Apple 8
#9 Valery Axelrad Kilopass Technology 8
#11 Jeff Linnell X Development 7
#12 John B. Simpson Avinger 6
#12 Brian R. Land Apple 6
#14 Amir Abolfathi Sonitus Medical 5
#14 Philip Bourgeois Tekni-Plex 5
#14 Joshua H. Shaffer Apple 5
#17 Marc T. Kaufman Adobe 4
#17 Oliver Friedrichs Cisco 4
#17 Jana van Greunen Itron Networked Solutions 4
#17 Michael Sleator Google 4
#21 Denis De Ceuster Sunpower 3
#21 James W. Arenson Vytronus 3
#21 François M. Jouaux Apple 3
#21 Rodney C. Perkins Earlens 3
#21 Friedrich B. Prinz Stanford University 3
#21 Anatoliy V. Tsyrganovich Zilog 3
#21 Paul Glendenning Micron 3
#21 Michael Dale Lampell Apple 3
#21 Nils Lonberg Bristol-Myers Squibb 3
#30 James Francis Mack Applied Materials 2
#30 Neal Margulis Digital Display Innovations 2
#30 Roland Schemers Salesforce 2
#30 Nicole G. Goldstein Invently Automotive 2
#30 Franck Chastagnol Dropbox 2
#30 Marius Wernig Whitehead Institute For Biomedical Research 2
#30 Arnon Rosenthal Alector 2
#30 Wolfgang Lehrach Vicarious Fpc 2
#30 Juston Payne Google 2
#30 Paul Shen Tvu Networks 2
#30 Jess Jan Young Lee Invisage Technologies 2
#30 Meike HERGET Avails Medical 2
#30 Theodore L. Griggs Resource Consortium Limited 2
#30 Peteris K. Augenbergs Apple 2
#30 Kevin Killeen Agilent Technologies 2
#30 Lee A. Flippin Fibrogen 2
#30 Benjamin Chien Foresee Pharmaceuticals Co. 2
#30 Juan R. Loaiza Oracle 2
#30 Ryan T. Davis Google 2
#30 Aarif Yusuf Khakoo Amgen 2
#30 Alexander Harry Little Apple 2

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