Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Newark, CA ranks #351 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 402 patents from 186 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Newark, CA include Medtronic, IBM, Micron. That works out to 8.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 186 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Di Wu Medtronic 54
2 Lan Yu IBM 15
3 Jung Sheng Hoei Micron 10
#4 Barnan Das Intel 7
#5 Peter Ta Productive Application Solutions 6
#5 Lifeng Zhao Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co. 6
#5 Hisashi Masui Lumileds 6
#5 Jerry Chiao Trinity International Industries, L.L.C. 6
#5 Haowei Yu Snowflake 6
#10 Praveen Varma Penmetsa Zimeno 5
#10 Jonas Korlach Pacific Biosciences Of California 5
#10 Sandeep Narla Tesla 5
#10 Edison Tam King Miguel Google 5
#14 Raghu Rengarajan 8X8 4
#14 John Samuel Barnett Meta 4
#14 Deepak Hosadurga Starkey Laboratories 4
#14 Adam C. Sherman Nvent Services Gmbh 4
#14 Amber Volmering Google 4
#14 Parth Vijay Vaishnav Salesforce 4
#14 James Thomas O'Keeffe Sunlighten 4
#21 Hitesh Patel Broadcom 3
#21 David Liu Protagonist Therapeutics 3
#21 Michael Ou Micron 3
#21 Spencer Alford Combangio 3
#21 Yuvaraj Chandrasekaran Oracle 3
#21 Kirk Erik Burgess Meta 3
#21 Edmar Soriano Visa 3
#21 Robert Garabedian Boston Scientific Scimed 3
#21 Shawn Munetoshi Fukami Apple 3
#21 Sitaram Asur Salesforce 3
#21 Mark Chen Kyocera Document Solutions 3
#21 Vishal Gupta Mallinckrodt 3
#21 Yao Li Alliance Fiber Optic Products 3
#21 Chenxi Lin Asml Netherlands B.V. 3
#21 Henry Povolny Lam Research 3
#21 Arturo Ramos Dell Products 3
#37 Sree Nandan Atur Robin Systems 2
#37 Chia-Kai Chou Sandisk Technologies 2
#37 Emmanuel Munguia Tapia Accenture Global Solutions Limited 2
#37 Noam Sapiens Kla-Tencor 2
#37 Russell PONG Sentreheart 2
#37 Mansour Saleki Tusker Medical 2
#37 Mathieu Foquet Pacific Biosciences Of California 2
#37 Zoheb Shivani Pure Storage 2
#37 Priyadarshi Panda Applied Materials 2
#37 Yao Wang Amazon 2
#37 Hao Zhang Globalfoundries 2
#37 Deborah S. Hoo A9.Com 2
#37 Rohit Singh 123Iv 2
#37 William De Meulenaere Acco Brands 2

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