Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Newark, CA ranks #464 worldwide for total patents filed in 2019, with 324 patents from 168 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Newark, CA include Meta, Medtronic, Micron. That works out to 6.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 168 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Jon Brian Ehlen Meta 14
2 Di Wu Medtronic 11
3 John Samuel Barnett Meta 9
#4 Jung Sheng Hoei Micron 8
#5 Sandeep Narla Tesla 7
#6 James Thomas O'Keeffe Sunlighten 6
#7 Tarun Kumar Tripathy Quest Software 5
#7 Jonas Korlach Pacific Biosciences Of California 5
#7 Noam Sapiens Kla-Tencor 5
#7 Jasper Jackson Neodyne Biosciences 5
#7 David Hopkins Lam Research 5
#12 Sujeet Kumar Nanogram 4
#12 Matthew L. Miller Applied Materials 4
#12 Vishal Gupta Mallinckrodt 4
#12 Parth Vijay Vaishnav Salesforce 4
#12 Barnan Das Intel 4
#12 Thomas Neff U-Systems 4
#12 Derek John Witkowicki Lam Research 4
#12 Deepak Hosadurga Starkey Laboratories 4
#12 Michael Murphy NVIDIA 4
#21 James Su Intersect Ent 3
#21 Raghu Rengarajan 8X8 3
#21 Nan Shi Dialog Semiconductor 3
#21 William P. Freeman Nanosys 3
#21 Mahesh Kumar Vasanthusomashekar Verizon 3
#21 Raj Rao Telenav 3
#21 Darryl Edward Gardner IBM 3
#21 John Serri Eyeque 3
#21 Mathieu Foquet Pacific Biosciences Of California 3
#21 Young Seen Lee Synaptics Incorporated 3
#21 Yi Peng Intel 3
#21 David Liu Protagonist Therapeutics 3
#33 Qifan Chen Qualcomm 2
#33 Kenneth Lucchesi Lam Research 2
#33 Spencer Alford Combangio 2
#33 James A. Nelson Ryko Manufacturing 2
#33 Harshit Agarwal Nutanix 2
#33 Andrew Huffmaster Benvenue Medical 2
#33 Nghi Phan Bruker Nano 2
#33 Narayanaswami Ganapathy American Megatrends 2
#33 Devon Wang Samsung 2
#33 Shweta Joshi Salesforce 2
#33 Vien-Phuong Nguyen Headwater Research 2
#33 Narayanan Gopalakrishnan Clover Network, Llc. 2
#33 Shaowei Li Xiamen University 2
#33 Shawn Munetoshi Fukami Apple 2
#33 Robert Greenhouse Syntex (U.S.A.) 2
#33 Jennifer H. Gable Optiscan Biomedical 2
#33 Danilo González Universidad Andrés Bello 2
#33 William De Meulenaere Acco Brands 2

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