Top Inventors in Los Altos, CA — 2021

Los Altos, CA ranks #56 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 1,936 patents from 775 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Los Altos, CA include Qualcomm, Pure Storage, View. That works out to 61.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 775 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Zhibin Wu	Qualcomm	39
2	Sumeeth Nagaraja	Qualcomm	37
3	John Colgrove	Pure Storage	30
#4	Dhairya Shrivastava	View	28
#5	Gary B. Mandle	Baylor University	26
#6	Pierre-Yves Droz	Google	25
#7	Donald F. Gordon	Gracenote	19
#7	Fletcher R. Rothkopf	Apple	19
#9	Scott Forstall	Apple	17
#10	Jeffrey L. Robbin	Apple	15
#11	Chris Kau	IBM	12
#11	Ahmet S. Ozcan	IBM	12
#13	Amit Aggarwal	Groupon	11
#13	Masoud Vakili	Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.	11
#13	Nathan Beckett	Sunpower	11
#13	Stephen J. Blumenkranz	Intuitive Surgical	11
#13	Peter E. Kirkpatrick	Pure Storage	11
#18	Sivapackia Ganapathiappan	HP	10
#18	Dane Glasgow	Ebay	10
#18	Matthew A. Mow	Apple	10
#21	Christopher D. Jones	Apple	9
#21	Li Li	Apple	9
#21	Dmitri A. Dolgov	Google	9
#24	Byungchul Kim	Samsung	8
#24	John Fielden	Kla-Tencor	8
#24	Ravi Ithal	Netskope	8
#24	Johan de Kleer	Xerox	8
#24	John Sjolund	Bigfoot Biomedical	8
#24	Peter A. Mehring	Zest Labs	8
#24	Yunrui Li	Oracle	8
#24	David Liu	Plusai	8
#24	Jeongkeun Lee	Barefoot Networks	8
#24	Sean Matthews	Rovi Guides	8
#34	Andreas Bibl	Apple	7
#34	Craig E. Hampel	Rambus	7
#34	Karl Ruben F. Larsson	Apple	7
#34	John Y. Chang	Acclarent	7
#34	Jindrich Dinga	Cisco	7
#34	Khashayar Mirfakhraei	Cisco	7
#34	Steven R. Hetzler	IBM	7
#34	Michael Standish Watts	Cisco	7
#34	Meichun Hsu	HP	7
#34	Kourosh Modarresi	Adobe	7
#34	Russell Norman Mirov	Verily Life Sciences	7
#34	Serguei Koulikov	Li-Cor	7
#34	Erik Toomre	Seurat Technologies	7
#47	Henry C. Jen	Apple	6
#47	Jeremy Minshull	Maxygen	6
#47	Hae-Chang Lee	Rambus	6
#47	Dan Kikinis	Elonex Ip Holdings	6

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