Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Cupertino, CA ranks #27 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 3,436 patents from 1,457 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Cupertino, CA include Globalfoundries, Intel, Apple. That works out to 56.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,457 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Hui Zang Globalfoundries 54
2 Shahrnaz Azizi Intel 30
3 Hong He Apple 28
#4 Yuniarto Widjaja Zeno Semiconductor 27
#5 Murali Narasimha Motorola Mobility 26
#5 Keiji Mabuchi Sony 26
#7 Shih Chang Chang Apple 25
#8 Li Su Apple 22
#9 Guoqing Li Apple 21
#10 Dmitry Lubomirsky Applied Materials 20
#11 Mostafa Tofighbakhsh AT&T 19
#11 Debdeep Chatterjee Apple 19
#13 Arnab Sanat Kumar Dhua Amazon 18
#13 Pankaj Thakkar Nicira 18
#15 Jayant Jain Nicira 17
#15 Ynjiun P. Wang Hand Held Products 17
#15 Ali Tabatabai Sony 17
#15 Jason Sean Gagne-Keats Essential Products 17
#19 Christoph H. Krah Apple 15
#19 Jiang Zhu Tencent 15
#19 Navindra Yadav Cisco 15
#22 Tianyu Wu Apple 14
#22 Tiffany S. Jon Apple 14
#22 Craig C. Leong Apple 14
#25 Yunxiang Wu Seagate Technology 13
#25 Paolo Sacchetto Apple 13
#27 Xiangying Yang Apple 12
#27 Debargha Mukherjee Google 12
#29 Nuwan Jayasena AMD 11
#29 Gang He Honeywell 11
#29 Benyamin Buller Velo3D 11
#29 Daewon Lee LG 11
#29 Yung-Ho Alex Chuang Kla-Tencor 11
#29 Samuel G. Smith Apple 11
#35 Carlos Cordeiro Apple 10
#35 Paul X. Wang Apple 10
#35 Shilpa Talwar Intel 10
#35 Jun Tao Western Digital Technologies 10
#35 Marcelo Lamego Masimo 10
#40 Daniel B. Pollack Apple 9
#40 Arkalgud R. Sitaram Invensas 9
#40 John C. DiFonzo Apple 9
#40 Douglas J. Weber Apple 9
#40 Richard K. Williams Advanced Analogic Technologies Incorporated 9
#40 Charles Chew-Yuen Young TSMC 9
#40 Guilherme de Barros Chapiewski Tile 9
#40 Todd K. Whitehurst Boston Scientific 9
#40 Sang Soo Lee KAIST 9
#49 Yi Jiang Apple 8
#49 Henry Allan Rowley Google 8

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