Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Newark, CA ranks #427 worldwide for total patents filed in 2020, with 351 patents from 187 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Newark, CA include Medtronic, Meta, Seagate Technology. That works out to 7.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 187 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Di Wu Medtronic 13
2 John Samuel Barnett Meta 9
2 David S. Kuo Seagate Technology 9
#4 Robert Garabedian Boston Scientific Scimed 7
#4 James Thomas O'Keeffe Sunlighten 7
#6 Noam Sapiens Kla-Tencor 6
#6 Amber Volmering Google 6
#8 Jonas Korlach Pacific Biosciences Of California 5
#8 Lan Yu IBM 5
#10 Barnan Das Intel 4
#10 Arturo Ramos Dell Products 4
#10 Jung Sheng Hoei Micron 4
#10 Yuri Lapin Pacific Biosciences Of California 4
#10 Priyadarshini Jaishankar University of California 4
#10 Nan Shi Dialog Semiconductor 4
#10 Vishal Gupta Mallinckrodt 4
#10 Matthew L. Miller Applied Materials 4
#18 Gareth Selfe Dolby Laboratories Licensing 3
#18 Sujeet Kumar Nanogram 3
#18 Prateek Kakirwar Intuit 3
#18 Kong CHAN Applied Materials 3
#18 Hisashi Masui Lumileds 3
#18 Pawan Gilhotra onsemi 3
#18 Phillip R. Sommer Applied Materials 3
#18 Ashay Narsale Micron 3
#18 Paul Peluso Pacific Biosciences Of California 3
#18 Parth Vijay Vaishnav Salesforce 3
#18 Sandeep Narla Tesla 3
#18 David Liu Protagonist Therapeutics 3
#18 Bomy Chen Silicon Storage Technology 3
#18 Emmanuel Munguia Tapia Accenture Global Solutions Limited 3
#18 Priyadarshi Panda Applied Materials 3
#18 Yao Li Alliance Fiber Optic Products 3
#18 Liang Wang Aerohive Networks 3
#18 Steve Woodard Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha 3
#18 Mathieu Foquet Pacific Biosciences Of California 3
#18 Ankit Agarwal Schlumberger Technology 3
#38 Adam C. Sherman Nvent Services Gmbh 2
#38 Russell PONG Sentreheart 2
#38 Lifeng Zhao Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co. 2
#38 Young Seen Lee Synaptics Incorporated 2
#38 Praveen Varma Penmetsa Zimeno 2
#38 Henry Povolny Lam Research 2
#38 Hao Zhang Globalfoundries 2
#38 Pawan Nachnani Salesforce 2
#38 Peter Ta Productive Application Solutions 2
#38 Kenneth Lucchesi Lam Research 2
#38 Devon Wang Samsung 2
#38 Jinfu Leng Meta 2
#38 Yogesh Kumar Anguchamy Zenlabs Energy 2

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