Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Fremont, CA ranks #26 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 4,209 patents from 1,880 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Fremont, CA include Disney, Ericsson, Micron. That works out to 18.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,880 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Hongyuan Zhang Disney 66
2 Jung-Fu Cheng Ericsson 39
3 Ashutosh Malshe Micron 33
#4 Taeyoung Kim Samsung 26
#5 Abhijit Basu Mallick Applied Materials 24
#6 Dirk Robert Walter Leipold Qorvo Us 23
#7 Yi-Pin Eric Wang Ericsson 22
#7 Ajit Nimbalker Motorola Mobility 22
#9 Peiman Amini Netgear 20
#10 Yi He Shenzhen Goodix Technology Co. 19
#11 Chia-Liang Lin Realtek Semiconductor 18
#12 Deepanshu Dutta Sandisk Technologies 17
#12 Johnson O. Sebeni Apple 17
#14 Suping Song Western Digital Technologies 16
#15 Abhijeet Bhorkar Apple 15
#15 Rui Zhang Aac Acoustic Technologies (Shenzhen) Co. 15
#17 Arindam Bhattacharjee Cisco 14
#17 Uri Shaft Oracle 14
#17 Weifeng Liu Flextronics Ap 14
#17 Xiyun Zhang Codexis 14
#17 Sourabh Satish Broadcom 14
#22 Jianming Zhang Adobe 13
#22 Xi Chen Neurogen 13
#22 Yi Yang TSMC 13
#25 Robert Joseph Gallegos Wagic 12
#25 Amarnath Palavalli Broadcom 12
#25 Soo Young Choi Applied Materials 12
#25 Glenn Powell Visa 12
#25 Chittabrata Ghosh Intel 12
#25 Atif Mahadik Cisco 12
#25 Gilad Almogy Ultima Genomics 12
#25 Tarun Khurana Illumina 12
#25 Zhigang Bai Western Digital (Fremont) 12
#25 Ganesh Balasubramanian Applied Materials 12
#35 Chao Weng Tencent America 11
#35 Santosh Ghanshyam Pandey Cisco 11
#35 Xinliang Lu Applied Materials 11
#35 Debdulal Mahanty Levi Strauss & 11
#35 Xiangang Luo Micron 11
#35 Mukesh Gupta Illumio 11
#41 Erwin Satrya Budiman Abbott 10
#41 Nitin Gupta Google 10
#41 Anubhav Gupta Cisco 10
#41 Jennifer Y. Sun Applied Materials 10
#41 Uma Meyyappan Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 10
#41 Oscar Alvizo Codexis 10
#41 Pradeep Srinivasan Aeva 10
#48 Yan Zhou Furcifer 9
#48 Sudhir Kumar Jain Cisco 9
#48 Yuankai Zheng Seagate Technology 9

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