Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Fremont, CA ranks #24 worldwide for total patents filed in 2020, with 4,520 patents from 1,978 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Fremont, CA include Disney, Applied Materials, Sandisk Technologies. That works out to 19.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,978 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Hongyuan Zhang Disney 88
2 Abhijit Basu Mallick Applied Materials 31
3 Deepanshu Dutta Sandisk Technologies 29
#4 Jung-Fu Cheng Ericsson 27
#5 Dirk Robert Walter Leipold Qorvo Us 26
#5 Jennifer Y. Sun Applied Materials 26
#5 Taeyoung Kim Samsung 26
#8 Chittabrata Ghosh Intel 23
#9 Chia-Liang Lin Realtek Semiconductor 20
#10 Nageen Himayat Intel 19
#10 Johnson O. Sebeni Apple 19
#12 Ching-Huang Lu Sandisk Technologies 18
#12 Ashutosh Malshe Micron 18
#14 Abhijeet Bhorkar Apple 17
#15 Rui Zhang Aac Acoustic Technologies (Shenzhen) Co. 16
#15 Yi-Pin Eric Wang Ericsson 16
#15 Guan-Ming Su Dolby Laboratories Licensing 16
#15 Simon Tovey Jaguar Land Rover Limited 16
#19 Priscilla Lau Verizon 14
#19 Oscar Alvizo Codexis 14
#19 Peiman Amini Netgear 14
#22 Santosh Ghanshyam Pandey Cisco 13
#22 Benjamin Louie Micron 13
#22 Weifeng Liu Flextronics Ap 13
#22 Ganesh Balasubramanian Applied Materials 13
#26 Zhigang Bai Western Digital (Fremont) 12
#26 Zhixin Cui Sandisk Technologies 12
#26 Ajit Nimbalker Motorola Mobility 12
#26 Rahul Sharangpani Sandisk Technologies 12
#26 Xiyun Zhang Codexis 12
#26 Jianming Zhang Adobe 12
#26 Suping Song Western Digital Technologies 12
#33 Vijayaraghavan Thirumalai Qualcomm 11
#33 Guozhong Shen Synaptics Incorporated 11
#33 Arindam Bhattacharjee Cisco 11
#33 Anubhav Gupta Cisco 11
#33 Chandra Nagarajan Cisco 11
#33 Kihyuk Sohn Nec 11
#33 Abhinav Duggal Emc Ip Holding Company 11
#40 Uma Meyyappan Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 10
#40 Daniel Schweigert Guardian Glass 10
#40 Henry Chin Sandisk Technologies 10
#40 Yan Zhou Furcifer 10
#40 Soo Young Choi Applied Materials 10
#40 Samuel Chen Trend Micro Incorporated 10
#40 Sridhar Karthik Kailasam View 10
#47 Uri Shaft Oracle 9
#47 Kaniyalal Shah Immersion 9
#47 Samarpan Jain Salesforce 9
#47 Xu Zhang Cisco 9

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