Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Foster City, CA ranks #129 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 1,022 patents from 505 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Foster City, CA include Electronic Arts, Visa, Samsung. That works out to 30.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 505 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Kazi Atif-Uz Zaman Electronic Arts 15
2 Ayman Hammad Visa 13
3 John Kolen Electronic Arts 11
#4 Jongmin Baek Samsung 10
#5 Varun Sharma Asm Ip Holding B.V. 9
#5 Theodore Harris Visa 9
#5 Ashish Motivala Snowflake 9
#5 Penglie Zhang Chemocentryx 9
#5 Yan Wang Bio-Rad Laboratories 9
#5 Katsumi Nagata Toyota 9
#11 Sanjeev Gangwar Bristol-Myers Squibb 8
#11 Linjun Zhang Ford 8
#11 Richard Marks Sony 8
#14 Kiushan Pirzadeh Visa 7
#14 Yuval Frandzel Pure Storage 7
#14 Cheng Yong Yang Jc Medical 7
#14 Warren Cornelius Welch, III Avegant 7
#14 Snahel Patel Genentech 7
#14 Yuexi Chen Visa 7
#14 Yue Li Visa 7
#14 Venkat R. Thalladi Theravance Biopharma R&D Ip 7
#14 Mirza Mohsin Beg Broadcom 7
#23 Jeff Tillack Credence Medsystems 6
#23 Yi Zou Intel 6
#23 Daqing Sun Amgen 6
#23 Yue Liu Prothena Biosciences Limited 6
#23 Edwin Sapugay Servicenow 6
#23 Jeremy Lackey Quantum-Si Incorporated 6
#23 Madhusudan K. Iyengar IBM 6
#23 Barret Lippey Dolby Laboratories Licensing 6
#23 Michael George Farley Tile 6
#32 Marc Kekicheff Visa 5
#32 Prashant Chopra Intuitive Surgical 5
#32 Oleg Mishin Howmedica Osteonics 5
#32 Fred Koelling Lockdowel 5
#32 Liusheng Zhu Amgen 5
#32 Javier de Vicente Fidalgo Denali Therapeutics 5
#32 Somasekhar Bhamidipati Rigel Pharmaceuticals 5
#32 Boris ANDREYEV Visby Medical 5
#32 Igor Borovikov Electronic Arts 5
#32 Yong Wang Ancestry.Com Dna 5
#32 James F. Kramer Groupon 5
#32 Randall L. Halcomb Gilead Sciences 5
#32 Craig O'Connell Visa 5
#32 Yosup Rew Amgen 5
#32 David Lowe Winview 5
#32 Zeng Wang Zoox 5
#48 Sangita Ghosh Adamas Pharma 4
#48 Junfa Fan Chemocentryx 4
#48 Jason Liu Thermo Fisher 4

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