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Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Fremont, CA ranks #22 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 3,646 patents from 1,677 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Fremont, CA include Disney, Intel, Qorvo Us. That works out to 15.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,677 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Hongyuan Zhang Disney 93
2 Chittabrata Ghosh Intel 39
3 Dirk Robert Walter Leipold Qorvo Us 27
#4 Priscilla Lau Verizon 22
#4 Stephen Lam Pdf Solutions 22
#6 Jung-Fu Cheng Ericsson 21
#7 Peiman Amini Netgear 20
#8 Manikandan Sankaranarasimhan Samsung 19
#9 Yi-Pin Eric Wang Ericsson 18
#9 Taeyoung Kim Samsung 18
#9 Guan-Ming Su Dolby Laboratories Licensing 18
#12 Jennifer Y. Sun Applied Materials 17
#12 Ajit Nimbalker Motorola Mobility 17
#14 Erwin Satrya Budiman Abbott 14
#14 Keshav G. Kamble IBM 14
#16 Nageen Himayat Intel 12
#16 Wen-Syan Li Sap Se 12
#18 Liang Pang Sandisk Technologies 11
#18 Rajiv Mordani Oracle 11
#18 Xiyun Zhang Codexis 11
#18 Nitin Gupta Google 11
#18 Xinyu BAO Applied Materials 11
#23 Kiran Pangal Intel 10
#23 Matthew P. Casebolt Apple 10
#23 Ashar Aziz Fireeye 10
#23 Renwei Li Futurewei Technologies 10
#23 Michael C. Smayling Tela Innovations 10
#28 Srinivas Katar Qualcomm 9
#28 Bal S. Sandhu NVIDIA 9
#28 Kulandaivelu Sivanandan Seeo 9
#28 Sourabh Satish Broadcom 9
#28 Deepanshu Dutta Sandisk Technologies 9
#28 Benjamin Louie Micron 9
#28 Johnson O. Sebeni Apple 9
#28 Yue Liu Headway Technologies 9
#28 Vimal Kamineni Globalfoundries 9
#28 Samuel Chen Trend Micro Incorporated 9
#28 Rui Zhang Aac Acoustic Technologies (Shenzhen) Co. 9
#39 Ilya Vladimirovich Brailovskiy Amazon 8
#39 Srinath Hosur Texas Instruments 8
#39 Puneet Gupta Tela Innovations 8
#39 Johnson Yen Lsi 8
#39 JengPing Lu Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated 8
#39 Rajesh S. Pazhyannur Cisco 8
#39 Qiang Yang Apple 8
#39 Huadong Gan Avalanche Technology 8
#39 Vijayaraghavan Thirumalai Qualcomm 8
#39 Mukesh Gupta Illumio 8
#39 Bruce L. Bateman Unity Semiconductor 8
#39 Santosh Ghanshyam Pandey Cisco 8

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