Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Menlo Park, CA ranks #67 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 1,761 patents from 805 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Menlo Park, CA include Snowflake, Apple, Cadence Design Systems. That works out to 52.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 805 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Jiaqi Yan Snowflake 25
2 Jean-Marc Gady Apple 22
3 Steven Teig Cadence Design Systems 20
#4 Douglas B. Satzger Apple 17
#5 Sunhwan Lee IBM 16
#6 Caiming Xiong Salesforce 15
#6 Thomas G. Cooper Intuitive Surgical 15
#6 Jingyuan Zhang Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co. 15
#6 Vincent Voron Dolby Laboratories Licensing 15
#10 Ming Ma Leia 14
#10 Pablo Garcia Kilroy Sri International 14
#10 John H. Shadduck Dfine 14
#13 Bruce M. Schena Intuitive Surgical 12
#14 Robert Jan Visser Applied Materials 11
#14 Richard Socher Salesforce 11
#16 Francine Chen 10
#17 Jean De Lavarene Oracle 9
#17 Jennifer Martin Block Bigfoot Biomedical 9
#19 Arthur van Hoff Verizon 8
#19 Kenan Christopher Garcia Stanford University 8
#19 Cyrus Daniel IRANI Apple 8
#19 Kathryn P. Crews Apple 8
#19 Xuejian Li Leia 8
#19 William Guie Rivard Duelight 8
#19 Michael Renne Ty Tan Agilent Technologies 8
#19 Brett W. Degner Apple 8
#27 Jagadish Venkataraman Verb Surgical 7
#27 James Young Samsung 7
#27 Tianlin Shi Cresta Intelligence 7
#27 Ali Parandehgheibi Cisco 7
#27 Tatiana Shpeisman Intel 7
#27 Michael Gertner Oraya Therapeutics 7
#27 Simon Holm Jensen Snowflake 7
#27 Dan Andersen Optimedica 7
#35 Robert D. Watson Apple 6
#35 Reza Raji Icontrol Networks 6
#35 Anthony Joonkyoo Yun Palo Alto Investors Lp 6
#35 Hongliang Liu Great Wall Motor Company Limited 6
#35 Tihomir Tsankov Georgiev Groupon 6
#35 Ahmad Byagowi Meta 6
#35 David Merriwether Seven Networks 6
#35 Sigurd Schelstraete Quantenna Communications 6
#35 Sam Kavusi Robert Bosch Gmbh 6
#35 Cyrus Behroozi Tropos Networks 6
#35 Neil Vachharajani Pure Storage 6
#35 Scott J. Baron Spirox 6
#35 Jens-Peter Volkmer Stanford University 6
#35 John Raff Apple 6
#35 Mark T. Winkler Apple 6
#35 Satwik Kamtekar Pacific Biosciences Of California 6

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