Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Newark, CA ranks #471 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 271 patents from 138 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Newark, CA include Medtronic, Alliance Fiber Optic Products, Nanogram. That works out to 5.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 138 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Di Wu Medtronic 7
2 Yao Li Alliance Fiber Optic Products 6
2 Sujeet Kumar Nanogram 6
2 Jonas Korlach Pacific Biosciences Of California 6
2 Srikumar Subramanian American Megatrends 6
2 Jon Brian Ehlen Meta 6
2 Derek John Witkowicki Lam Research 6
#8 Nan Shi Dialog Semiconductor 5
#8 Robert Garabedian Boston Scientific Scimed 5
#8 Jerry Chiao Trinity International Industries, L.L.C. 5
#8 Noam Sapiens Kla-Tencor 5
#8 Praveen Varma Penmetsa Zimeno 5
#8 Henry Povolny Lam Research 5
#14 David S. Kuo Seagate Technology 4
#14 Matthew L. Miller Applied Materials 4
#14 Srinivasa Kakkera Alertenterprise 4
#14 Barnan Das Intel 4
#14 Narayanaswami Ganapathy American Megatrends 4
#19 James Thomas O'Keeffe Sunlighten 3
#19 Oliver Hoheisel Logitech Europe S.A. 3
#19 Tarun Kumar Tripathy Quest Software 3
#19 Sandeep Narla Tesla 3
#19 David Liu Protagonist Therapeutics 3
#19 Kenneth Lucchesi Lam Research 3
#19 Andrew Huffmaster Benvenue Medical 3
#19 Yao Wang Amazon 3
#19 Phillip R. Sommer Applied Materials 3
#19 William P. Freeman Nanosys 3
#19 Raghu Rengarajan 8X8 3
#19 Teck Hua Lee Oracle 3
#19 Li Yang Southwest University Of Science And Technology 3
#19 Jennifer H. Gable Optiscan Biomedical 3
#19 Alok Ojha Box 3
#34 John Craig Robert DeGruchy Logitech Europe S.A. 2
#34 Olga Viktorovna Lapina Gilead Sciences 2
#34 Gareth Selfe Dolby Laboratories Licensing 2
#34 Kevin C. Wong General Motors 2
#34 Robert Greenhouse Syntex (U.S.A.) 2
#34 Timothy Scott Lowe Google 2
#34 Pawan Nachnani Salesforce 2
#34 Russell PONG Sentreheart 2
#34 Jonathan Hsu Sandisk Technologies 2
#34 Subrat Narendra Singh Alertenterprise 2
#34 Pu Yang Linkplay Technology 2
#34 Ankit Agarwal Schlumberger Technology 2
#34 Young Seen Lee Synaptics Incorporated 2
#34 Chung Daniel Song 2
#34 Matthew Dickinson Connector Set Limited Partnership 2
#34 Yogesh Kumar Anguchamy Zenlabs Energy 2
#34 Arun K. Kashyap Affymax Technologies N.V. 2

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