Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Mountain View, CA ranks #16 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 4,817 patents from 2,331 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Mountain View, CA include Qualcomm, Pure Storage, Comcast. That works out to 58.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 2,331 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Carlos Horacio Aldana Qualcomm 24
2 John Hayes Pure Storage 21
3 Wei Xiong Comcast 20
3 Xinrui Jiang Essential Products 20
#5 Martin F. Schubert Micron 18
#5 Mark Siminoff Amazon 18
#5 Kalyan Desineni Samsung 18
#8 Nathaniel Fairfield Google 17
#9 Adam Feder Duelight 16
#9 Nian Niles Yang Sandisk Technologies 16
#11 Tao Ma BOE 15
#11 Christiaan A. Hartman Apple 15
#11 Paul W. Mohr Intuitive Surgical 15
#14 Wayne V. Sorin Hewlett Packard Enterprise 14
#14 Shahram Izadi Microsoft 14
#16 Caitlin Chrisman Bullock Bank of America 13
#17 Tyler S. Bushnell Apple 12
#17 Jerrod Joseph Schwartz Verily Life Sciences 12
#17 John Benjamin Filson Apple 12
#17 Michael R. Krames Philips Lumileds Lighting Company 12
#21 Armin R. Volkel Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated 11
#21 Takayuki Shimizu Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha 11
#21 Ethan Rublee X Development 11
#21 Thad Eugene Starner Google 11
#25 Alexander Faaborg Google 10
#25 Rajesh Sundaram Intel 10
#25 Mark Deem Medtronic 10
#25 David A. Fattal Leia 10
#25 Vikram Singh Bajaj Verily Life Sciences 10
#25 John F. Christensen Robert Bosch Gmbh 10
#25 Pravir Kumar Gupta Google 10
#25 Ashley Elizabeth Micks Ford 10
#25 Jason Donald Thompson Verily Life Sciences 10
#25 Marc B. Taub Abbott 10
#25 Thomas Vogelsang Rambus 10
#25 Richard Wayne DeVaul Google 10
#37 Johnny Lee Microsoft 9
#37 Tim Holme Quantumscape 9
#37 Amish Babu Inc Square, Co. 9
#37 Kirk Hargreaves Synaptics Incorporated 9
#37 Ankur Jain Google 9
#37 Christopher Daryl Soli Apple 9
#37 Liron Shapira Samsung 9
#37 James Etzkorn Verily Life Sciences 9
#37 Christopher J. Petti Sandisk Technologies 9
#37 Jonathan A. Logan Rovi Guides 9
#37 Gurudeep Kamat A10 Networks, Incorporated 9
#37 Christopher Gates Broadcom 9
#37 Samuel William Lenius Google 9
#37 Matthew D. Hill 9

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