Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Palo Alto, CA ranks #19 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 4,445 patents from 1,983 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Palo Alto, CA include Apple, Essential Products, Inphi. That works out to 64.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,983 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Stephen O. Lemay Apple 49
2 Syed Aon Mujtaba Apple 28
3 David John Evans, V Essential Products 24
3 Xiaoyu Miao Essential Products 24
#5 Masaki Kato Inphi 22
#6 Arvind Kumar IBM 19
#7 Chi Fai Ho Tp Lab 18
#7 Hon Wah Chin Intellectual Ventures 18
#7 Michael Xie Fortinet 18
#10 Yoshihisa Kishiyama Ntt Docomo 17
#11 Christopher Loew Amazon 16
#11 Sehoon Yea Tencent America 16
#11 Matthew Nicholas Papakipos Meta 16
#11 Stephen G. Perlman Rearden 16
#15 Scott C. Best Rambus 15
#15 Noah Mark Minskoff Rai Strategic Holdings 15
#17 Tang Yew Tan Apple 14
#17 Keith G. Fife Butterfly Network 14
#17 Michael John McKenzie Toksvig Meta 14
#20 Sungpack Hong Oracle 13
#20 Ozgur Oyman Intel 13
#22 Brian Douglas Cullinane Google 12
#22 Yong-Syuan Chen Thunder Power New Energy Vehicle Development Company Limited 12
#22 Su Khiong Yong Apple 12
#22 Xintian E. Lin Intel 12
#22 Mehmet Yavuz Qualcomm 12
#22 Baback Elmieh Meta 12
#22 Avi Kopelman Align Technology 12
#29 Michael Alexander Benedict Haier Us Appliance Solutions 11
#29 Elizabeth A. Holmes Theranos 11
#29 Stuart Argue 11
#29 Steven P. Jobs Apple 11
#33 Mark E. Zuckerberg Meta 10
#33 Tao Chen Dolby Laboratories Licensing 10
#33 Dwipal Desai Essential Products 10
#33 Michael C. Caldarone Kabam, 10
#33 Yoocharn Jeon Hewlett Packard Enterprise 10
#33 Sylvain J. Choisel Apple 10
#33 Jesse Dorogusker Apple 10
#33 Jerome F. Duluk, Jr. NVIDIA 10
#33 Steven D. Baker Welch Allyn 10
#33 Ju-Yong Do Qualcomm 10
#33 Bart J. van Schravendijk Novellus Systems 10
#33 Omer Gila HP 10
#33 Mara Clair Segal Essential Products 10
#33 Hong Shen Invensas 10
#47 Hayes Solos Raffle Google 9
#47 Lei Xu Nec Laboratories America 9
#47 Tsahi Daniel Disney 9
#47 Christophe J. Chevallier Micron 9

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