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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

San Ramon, CA ranks #130 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 1,010 patents from 474 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in San Ramon, CA include Disney, Intel, Verizon. That works out to 11.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 474 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Liwen Chu Disney 43
2 Qinghua Li Intel 33
3 Lalit R. Kotecha Verizon 17
#4 Huai-Yuan Tseng Sandisk Technologies 16
#5 Michael A. Leabman Energous 15
#5 Minyoung Park Intel 15
#5 Vivek Sharma Monsanto Technology 15
#8 Ye Huang Verizon 11
#8 Alicia Y. Moore Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 11
#10 Darrell L. Suen Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 9
#11 Deva-Datta Sharma AT&T 8
#11 Xidong Wu AT&T 8
#11 Bharath Kishore Reddy Aleti Cisco 8
#14 Patricia R. Chang Verizon 7
#14 Vishwanath Ramamurthi Verizon 7
#14 Michael Thomas Navitar Industries 7
#14 Russell Hudyma Navitar Industries 7
#14 Son T. Pham Samsung 7
#19 Kameran Azadet Intel 6
#19 Nikolay Ouzounov Geltor 6
#19 Hye Kyung Cho Timken Chevron 6
#19 Kelvin Chan Applied Materials 6
#19 Bishwarup Mondal Apple 6
#19 Vikram B. Yerrabommanahalli Apple 6
#19 Nalinaksh Pai Arrcus 6
#26 Mark Ish Micron 5
#26 Nagarajan Muthukrishnan Oracle 5
#26 Imran Haider Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 5
#26 Deepak Jain Devicefidelity 5
#26 Joel E. Schmidt Caltech 5
#26 Weihong Qiu Intersil Americas 5
#26 Arda Akman Netsia 5
#26 Prabhu Thukkaram Oracle 5
#26 Naohiko Kosaka Kyocera Document Solutions 5
#26 Prakash Muttineni Xad 5
#36 Behzad Dariush Honda Motor Co. 4
#36 Chuang-Chia Lin Applied Materials 4
#36 Quoc Truong Applied Materials 4
#36 Sachin Srivastava Abb Power Grids Switzerland Ag 4
#36 Gregory Kapust Breathe Technologies 4
#36 Mehdi Malboubi AT&T 4
#36 Joshua Horvath Becton, Dickinson And 4
#36 Sharookh Daruwalla Micron 4
#36 John Duc Nguyen HP 4
#36 Derek Kenneth Larson Boston Scientific Scimed 4
#36 Geoffrey Matthew Ho Enovix 4
#36 Satyapal P. Reddy Open Text 4
#36 James Fan AT&T 4
#36 Subasingha Shaminda Subasingha Zoox 4
#36 Tong Sun Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 4

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