Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Cupertino, CA ranks #28 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 3,768 patents from 1,477 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Cupertino, CA include Apple, Molex, Nicira. That works out to 62.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,477 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Hong He Apple 60
2 Debdeep Chatterjee Apple 52
3 Pierre Perez Molex 39
#4 Haitong Sun Apple 31
#5 Jayant Jain Nicira 29
#6 Guoqing Li Apple 27
#7 Paul X. Wang Apple 25
#8 Hui Zang Globalfoundries 23
#8 Tanveer F. Syeda-Mahmood IBM 23
#10 Chunhua Li Align Technology 20
#10 Raja Kommula Broadcom 20
#12 Yuchul Kim Apple 19
#12 Navindra Yadav Cisco 19
#12 Charles Chew-Yuen Young TSMC 19
#15 Masaaki Higashitani Sandisk Technologies 18
#16 Yuniarto Widjaja Zeno Semiconductor 16
#16 Tiffany S. Jon Apple 16
#16 Hyewon Lee Samsung 16
#19 Jiang Zhu Tencent 15
#19 Mostafa Tofighbakhsh AT&T 15
#19 Gang He Honeywell 15
#19 Dmitry Lubomirsky Applied Materials 15
#23 Pankaj Thakkar Nicira 14
#23 Zhu Ji Apple 14
#23 Jose Pio Pereira Netlogic Microsystems 14
#23 Michele Piccardi Micron 14
#27 Li Su Apple 13
#27 Ali Tabatabai Sony 13
#27 Shih Chang Chang Apple 13
#27 Christoph H. Krah Apple 13
#27 Marcelo Lamego Masimo 13
#27 Zhi Xu Palo Alto Networks 13
#27 Peter Rabkin Sandisk Technologies 13
#27 Sang Soo Lee KAIST 13
#35 James R. Wilson Apple 12
#35 Tianyan Pu Apple 12
#35 Hrishikesh Vijaykumar Panchawagh Qualcomm 12
#35 Geeng-Chuan Chern Hefechip Corporation Limited 12
#35 Shahrnaz Azizi Intel 12
#40 Paolo Sacchetto Apple 11
#40 Nuwan Jayasena AMD 11
#40 Balaram Sinharoy IBM 11
#40 Yan Wu Headway Technologies 11
#44 Junichi Kobayashi Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha 10
#44 Sunil Kumar Emc Ip Holding Company 10
#44 Yen-Kuang Chen Intel 10
#44 Jyoti Kiron Bhardwaj Lumileds 10
#44 Vusthla Sunil Reddy Apple 10
#44 Xiangying Yang Apple 10
#44 Daewon Lee LG 10

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