Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Mountain View, CA ranks #17 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 5,361 patents from 2,642 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Mountain View, CA include Leia, Amazon, Micron. That works out to 65.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 2,642 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 David A. Fattal Leia 27
2 Mark Siminoff Amazon 24
3 Martin F. Schubert Micron 23
#4 John Hayes Pure Storage 22
#5 Andrew R. Bernat Pure Storage 21
#6 Christiaan A. Hartman Apple 20
#7 Takayuki Shimizu Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha 19
#8 Christopher Daryl Soli Apple 18
#9 Tao Ma BOE 17
#10 Robert Lee 16
#10 Carl Cepress Google 16
#10 Wei Han Huawei 16
#13 Wei Xiong Comcast 15
#13 Robert Stets Google 15
#15 Jason Holland Meta 14
#15 Nathaniel Fairfield Google 14
#15 Ojas Gupta Broadcom 14
#15 Naveen Neelakantam Pure Storage 14
#19 Ying Yu Tai Micron 13
#19 Yue Lu Beijing Voyager Technology Co. 13
#21 YooJung Ahn Google 12
#22 Paul W. Mohr Intuitive Surgical 11
#22 Tyler S. Bushnell Apple 11
#22 Prashant Ramanathan Gracenote 11
#22 Xin Zhou IBM 11
#22 Gary Bradski Magic Leap 11
#22 Gaurav Bansal Bank of America 11
#22 Albert Meixner Google 11
#22 Regina Madigan Allstate Insurance 11
#22 Nayon Kim Google 11
#22 Maria Moon Google 11
#32 Mark Deem Medtronic 10
#32 Tim Holme Quantumscape 10
#32 Radomir Mech Adobe 10
#32 David S. Mintz Auris Health 10
#32 Roberto Garcia Apple 10
#32 Wayne V. Sorin Hewlett Packard Enterprise 10
#32 Michael Cap Koval Berkshire Grey Operating Company 10
#32 Hui Tang Tencent America 10
#32 Rajesh Sundaram Intel 10
#32 Thomas Vogelsang Rambus 10
#32 Marc B. Taub Abbott 10
#32 Lingkai Kong Beijing Voyager Technology Co. 10
#32 Arthur Y. Zhang Apple 10
#32 Tarun Jain Google 10
#46 Daniel Cervelli Palantir Technologies 9
#46 Josselin de la Broise Tile 9
#46 Kentaro Oguchi Toyota 9
#46 Samuel William Lenius Google 9
#46 Ryan D. Shelby Apple 9

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