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Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Milpitas, CA ranks #122 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 934 patents from 477 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Milpitas, CA include Synaptics Incorporated, Nicira, Cisco. That works out to 11.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 477 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Joseph Kurth Reynolds Synaptics Incorporated 27
2 Xinhua Hong Nicira 13
3 Sudhakar Muddu Cisco 12
#4 Marco Fiorentino Hewlett Packard Enterprise 11
#4 Liang Wang Invensas 11
#6 Ajoy K. Singh Apple 10
#7 Jixin Yu Sandisk Technologies 9
#7 Raymond G. Beausoleil Hewlett Packard Enterprise 9
#7 Ran Tao BOE 9
#7 Kapil Chhabra Disney 9
#11 Yang Yue BOE 8
#11 Amit Kumar BANSAL Applied Materials 8
#13 Chunming Wang Silicon Storage Technology 7
#13 Kyoung Wook Seok Ixys 7
#13 Xunwei Zhou Joulwatt Technology (Hangzhou) Co. 7
#16 Yin Qian Omnivision Technologies 6
#16 Awais M. Hussain Apple 6
#16 Hao Zhong Scaleflux 6
#16 Arun Kumar Ford 6
#16 Sagar Borikar Cisco 6
#16 Prabhath Sajeepa Pure Storage 6
#16 Giao Minh Pham Power Integrations 6
#16 Yuhui Tang Headway Technologies 6
#24 Jesmin Haq TSMC 5
#24 Jean Tourrilhes Hewlett Packard Enterprise 5
#24 Russell Wayne Gruhlke Qualcomm 5
#24 Sandip Shah Juniper Networks 5
#24 Hemant Kumar Jain Fortinet 5
#24 Deepak Raghu Sandisk Technologies 5
#24 Hyojun Kim LG 5
#24 Tai-Yuan Tseng Sandisk Technologies 5
#24 Ambrish Niranjan Mehta Cisco 5
#24 Gautam Bhanage Cisco 5
#34 Jovana Nazor Codexis 4
#34 Dibyendu Rana onsemi 4
#34 Roman Chepulskyy Samsung 4
#34 Mudit Sunilkumar Khasgiwala Amazon 4
#34 Rajeshwaran Selvanesan NVIDIA 4
#34 Divya Shree Reddy Sandisk Technologies 4
#34 Kevin Siegel Visa 4
#34 Dejan S. Milojicic Hewlett Packard Enterprise 4
#34 Yuri Paskover Kla-Tencor 4
#34 Zhenlei Shen Micron 4
#34 Jiang Lu Applied Materials 4
#34 Chaoming Zeng Aviat U.S. 4
#34 Rajendra Kumar Thirumurthi Cisco 4
#34 Xiaojie Hao Avalanche Technology 4
#34 Ning Zhao OPPO 4
#34 Amrish Jayprakash Walke Acclarent 4
#34 Aliasgar Mumtaz Husain Telenav 4

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