Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Mountain View, CA ranks #17 worldwide for total patents filed in 2020, with 5,869 patents from 2,745 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Mountain View, CA include Amazon, Comcast, Micron. That works out to 71.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 2,745 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Mark Siminoff Amazon 44
2 Wei Xiong Comcast 29
3 Martin F. Schubert Micron 26
#4 John Hayes Pure Storage 24
#5 David A. Fattal Leia 23
#6 Christiaan A. Hartman Apple 20
#7 Nayon Kim Google 19
#8 Tao Ma BOE 18
#8 Christopher Daryl Soli Apple 18
#10 Robert Stets Google 17
#10 Harshit Naresh Chitalia Juniper Networks 17
#10 Albert Meixner Google 17
#10 Takayuki Shimizu Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha 17
#14 Jason Redgrave Tabula 16
#14 Ran Xu Beijing Zhigu Rui Tuo Tech Co. 16
#16 Gaurav Bansal Bank of America 15
#17 Scott Carter 14
#17 Michael Cap Koval Berkshire Grey Operating Company 14
#19 Djordje Tujkovic Meta 13
#19 Adam Brown Google 13
#19 Robert Lee 13
#19 Nathaniel Fairfield Google 13
#23 Josselin de la Broise Tile 12
#23 Niles Yang Sandisk Technologies 12
#23 Paul W. Mohr Intuitive Surgical 12
#23 Wayne V. Sorin Hewlett Packard Enterprise 12
#23 Kingsuk Brahma Apple 12
#23 Mark Deem Medtronic 12
#23 Jaime Lien Google 12
#30 John D. Perreault Google 11
#30 Alok Anant Bhide Cisco 11
#30 Tyler S. Bushnell Apple 11
#30 Kentaro Oguchi Toyota 11
#30 Alex Daniel Jacobson Google 11
#30 Tuna Toksoz Google 11
#30 Thomas Vogelsang Rambus 11
#37 Megan Knight Google 10
#37 Ying Yu Tai Micron 10
#37 Alexander Tessmer Nicira 10
#37 Carl Cepress Google 10
#37 John V. Arthur IBM 10
#37 David S. Mintz Auris Health 10
#37 Radomir Mech Adobe 10
#37 Jimei Yang Adobe 10
#37 YooJung Ahn Google 10
#37 Gabriel Harley Sunpower 10
#47 Phillip Gooding Amo Development 9
#47 Xin Zhou IBM 9
#47 Shauli Gal Salesforce 9
#47 Karthik Jayaraman Raghuram Apple 9

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