Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Tempe, AZ ranks #234 worldwide for total patents filed in 2020, with 618 patents from 343 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Tempe, AZ include Intel, Arizona Board Of Regents For And On Behalf Of Arizona State University, Zip Top. That works out to 3.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 343 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Kshitij A. Doshi Intel 26
2 Jian Li Arizona Board Of Regents For And On Behalf Of Arizona State University 13
3 Rebecca M. Finell Zip Top 12
#4 Mrittika Ganguli Intel 11
#5 Kemal Aygun Intel 10
#5 David Puffer Intel 10
#7 Michael Fong Ppip 8
#7 Derek Michael Underhill The Noco 8
#7 Jordan Cluster Edge 3 Technologies 8
#10 Mihir Mudholkar onsemi 7
#10 Neric Hsin-wu Fong Ppip 7
#10 Timothy L. Youtsey Pct International 7
#13 Joseph Del Rossi Vomaris Innovations 6
#13 Jeffrey Spencer Roberts Nxp Usa 6
#13 Michael Harris, Jr. State Farm 6
#16 Balaji Padmanabhan onsemi 5
#16 Nyles Wynn Cody Atomera Incorporated 5
#16 Jae-sun Seo IBM 5
#16 Richard R. King The Boeing 5
#20 Seth Abraham Intel 4
#20 Zia Hossain onsemi 4
#20 James Fox American Airlines 4
#20 Xinjian Lei Versum Materials Us 4
#20 Kevin L. Mitchell State Farm 4
#20 William J. Tyler Thync Global 4
#20 Sonu Daryanani Microchip Technology Incorporated 4
#20 Julianne Bowles American Airlines 4
#20 Jia-Wei Ding Thunder Power New Energy Vehicle Development Company Limited 4
#20 Jacob L. Swett Lockheed Martin 4
#20 Fanyu Meng Dicastal North America 4
#20 Seth Suppappola Cirrus Logic 4
#20 Amruthavalli Pallavi Alur Intel 4
#33 Madan Mohan Reddy Vemula Nxp B.V. 3
#33 Narayan Kovvali Cirrus Logic 3
#33 Yung-Fu Chang Epistar 3
#33 Neal Woodbury Arizona Board Of Regents For And On Behalf Of Arizona State University 3
#33 Robert E. Lee Amazon 3
#33 Chia-Pin Chiu Intel 3
#33 Minya Gavrilovic Galtronics Usa 3
#33 Brian Paul Brock Endurance International Group 3
#33 Geoffrey Tucker Nxp Usa 3
#33 William Birgen Smart And Armor Protected 3
#33 Audel A. Sanchez Nxp Usa 3
#33 Grant A. MacLennan Ctm Magnetics ,Inc 3
#33 Nicholas R. Van De Veire Hamilton Sundstrand 3
#33 Edward Kavazanjian Arizona Board Of Regents For And On Behalf Of Arizona State University 3
#33 Zhaohui Zhu Intel 3
#33 Zongwei Zhou Arizona Board Of Regents For And On Behalf Of Arizona State University 3
#33 Jason Swanson Evolve Technologies 3
#33 Sadegh Farzaneh Galtronics Usa 3

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