Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Milpitas, CA ranks #101 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 1,243 patents from 626 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Milpitas, CA include Cisco, Bigfoot Biomedical, Synaptics Incorporated. That works out to 15.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 626 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Santosh Ramrao Patil Cisco 20
2 Bryan Mazlish Bigfoot Biomedical 17
3 Lane Desborough Bigfoot Biomedical 16
#4 Joseph Kurth Reynolds Synaptics Incorporated 15
#4 Xinhua Hong Nicira 15
#6 Tingjun Xie Micron 13
#7 Amit Kumar BANSAL Applied Materials 11
#7 Yan Li BOE 11
#7 Nikita Varma Yahoo Assets 11
#10 Gautam Bhanage Cisco 10
#11 Arun Kumar Ford 9
#11 Anindya Sarkar Ventana Medical Systems 9
#13 Yang Yue BOE 8
#13 Sunil Gupta Cisco 8
#13 Ajoy K. Singh Apple 8
#13 Raymond G. Beausoleil Hewlett Packard Enterprise 8
#13 Ning Zhao OPPO 8
#13 Mir Ashkan Seyedi Hewlett Packard Enterprise 8
#13 Chunming Wang Silicon Storage Technology 8
#13 Ardalan Alizadeh Cisco 8
#21 Tiancheng Lou Pony Ai 7
#21 Jovana Nazor Codexis 7
#21 Dejan S. Milojicic Hewlett Packard Enterprise 7
#21 Jayesh Nath Apple 7
#21 Catherine Graves Hewlett Packard Enterprise 7
#21 Liang Wang Invensas 7
#27 Venkatarama Anilkumar Panguluri Gracenote Digital Ventures 6
#27 Xunwei Zhou Joulwatt Technology (Hangzhou) Co. 6
#27 Lisa Scaria Ford 6
#27 Robert J. Walker Manitowoc Crane Companies 6
#27 Aditi Vutukuri Broadcom 6
#27 Rohit Sehgal Western Digital Technologies 6
#27 Dennis J. Johnson Onanon 6
#27 Jason Martineau Samsung 6
#27 Yaser Shanjani Align Technology 6
#27 Satish Kondalam Cisco 6
#27 Zhihong Huang Hewlett Packard Enterprise 6
#38 Thomas A. Beavin IBM 5
#38 Abhishek Mukherji Cisco 5
#38 Sagar Borikar Cisco 5
#38 Jiang Lu Applied Materials 5
#38 Wei Fang Asml Netherlands B.V. 5
#38 Sudhakar Muddu Cisco 5
#38 Ran Tao BOE 5
#38 Yuhui Tang Headway Technologies 5
#46 Pi-Feng Chiu Western Digital Technologies 4
#46 Wei Po Chao Zepp 4
#46 Jesmin Haq TSMC 4
#46 Jose Vigano View 4
#46 Marco Fiorentino Hewlett Packard Enterprise 4

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