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Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Mountain View, CA ranks #16 worldwide for total patents filed in 2019, with 5,938 patents from 2,719 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Mountain View, CA include Amazon, Micron, Apple. That works out to 72.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 2,719 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Mark Siminoff Amazon 42
2 Martin F. Schubert Micron 31
3 Christiaan A. Hartman Apple 27
#4 John Hayes Pure Storage 25
#5 Wei Xiong Comcast 23
#6 Albert Meixner Google 22
#7 Jason Redgrave Tabula 21
#8 Nayon Kim Google 20
#8 Mark Deem Medtronic 20
#10 Christopher Morabito Google 17
#10 Adam Feder Duelight 17
#10 Ran Xu Beijing Zhigu Rui Tuo Tech Co. 17
#10 Thomas Vogelsang Rambus 17
#10 Nian Niles Yang Sandisk Technologies 17
#10 Ashley Elizabeth Micks Ford 17
#16 Megan Knight Google 16
#17 Nathaniel Fairfield Google 15
#18 Paul Truong Google 14
#18 Kingsuk Brahma Apple 14
#18 Paul W. Mohr Intuitive Surgical 14
#18 Tao Ma BOE 14
#22 Carlos Horacio Aldana Qualcomm 13
#22 Xinrui Jiang Essential Products 13
#22 Christopher J. Petti Sandisk Technologies 13
#22 Todd Reichert Kitty Hawk 13
#22 Wayne V. Sorin Hewlett Packard Enterprise 13
#22 Djordje Tujkovic Meta 13
#22 Xin Zhou IBM 13
#22 Ankur Jain Google 13
#30 Philippe Larochelle Malta 12
#30 Elbert E. Huang IBM 12
#30 John F. Christensen Robert Bosch Gmbh 12
#30 Ronald J. Meetin 12
#30 Tim Holme Quantumscape 12
#30 Radomir Mech Adobe 12
#30 Takayuki Shimizu Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha 12
#37 Mirna Jarosz 10X Genomics 11
#37 Andrew J. Walker Spin Memory 11
#37 Jean-Philippe Fricker Cerebras Systems 11
#37 Tyler S. Bushnell Apple 11
#37 Gilwoo Choi Heartflow 11
#37 James Koh Kabam, 11
#37 Joshua P. Switkes Peloton Technology 11
#44 Peter P. Tong Vesture 10
#44 John V. Arthur IBM 10
#44 Adam Brown Google 10
#44 Carl Cepress Google 10
#44 Yogesh Prabhakar Kulkarni Dell Products 10
#44 David S. Mintz Auris Health 10
#44 David A. Fattal Leia 10

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