Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Folsom, CA ranks #144 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 933 patents from 277 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Folsom, CA include Intel, Micron, Google. That works out to 11.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 277 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Joydeep Ray Intel 85
2 Balaji Vembu Intel 43
3 Prasoonkumar Surti Intel 36
#4 Michael Apodaca Intel 23
#5 Amit Kumar Srivastava Intel 22
#6 Ankur N. Shah Intel 19
#7 Murali Ramadoss Intel 18
#7 Prasoonkumar Surti 18
#9 Nikos Kaburlasos Intel 17
#10 Jason Tanner Intel 15
#11 Sanjeev Jahagirdar Intel 14
#11 John H. Feit Intel 14
#13 Poorna Kale Micron 13
#14 Narayan Biswal Intel 12
#14 James M. Holland Intel 12
#14 Renato C. Padilla Micron 12
#17 Ashutosh Garg Google 10
#18 Nausheen Ansari Intel 9
#18 Jeffery S. Boles Intel 9
#18 Varghese George Intel 9
#21 Mingdong Cui Micron 8
#21 Ben J. Ashbaugh Intel 8
#21 Wenyin Fu Intel 8
#21 Supratim Pal Intel 8
#21 Chia-Hung S. Kuo Intel 8
#21 Atthar H. Mohammed Intel 8
#21 Qian Xu Thomson Licensing 8
#21 David M. Cimini Intel 8
#29 Phanindra Kumar Mannava NVIDIA 7
#29 Robert J. Mowris 7
#29 Archie Sharma Intel 7
#29 Steve Anderson Boston Scientific Scimed 7
#33 Aditya Navale Intel 6
#33 Chandra Gurram Intel 6
#33 Christopher Joseph Bueb Micron 6
#33 Vivek Garg Intel 6
#33 Arthur J. Runyan Intel 6
#33 Aswin Thiruvengadam Micron 6
#33 Aliasgar S. Madraswala Intel 6
#33 Aravindh Anantaraman Intel 6
#41 Mayuresh M. Varerkar Intel 5
#41 Shankar Natarajan Intel 5
#41 Niranjan L. Cooray Intel 5
#41 SungYe Kim Intel 5
#41 Vikranth Vemulapalli Intel 5
#41 Nilesh V. Shah Intel 5
#47 Satyaki Koneru Blaize 4
#47 Hari Giduturi Micron 4
#47 Eric J. Hoekstra Intel 4
#47 Lakshminarayanan Striramassarma Intel 4

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