Top Inventors in Santa Clara, CA — 2021

Santa Clara, CA ranks #23 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 4,596 patents from 2,083 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Santa Clara, CA include Tencent America, IBM, Apple. That works out to 36.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 2,083 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Xin Zhao	Tencent America	75
2	Valentina Salapura	IBM	72
3	Heng Wu	IBM	37
#4	Yang Tang	Apple	33
#5	Harish Reddy Singidi	Micron	31
#6	Ming Lei	The Code	25
#6	Lin Ma	Xerox	25
#6	Vamsi Pavan Rayaprolu	Micron	25
#9	Wenguang Wang	Broadcom	20
#10	Xiang Yang	Sandisk Technologies	19
#11	Christopher J. Hughes	Intel	18
#12	Srinivas Gandikota	Applied Materials	17
#12	Yongan Xu	IBM	17
#14	Ilyas Mohammed	Tessera	16
#14	Justin E. Gottschlich	Intel	16
#14	Milan Patel	Rovi Guides	16
#17	Wei-Hao Wu	TSMC	15
#17	Gaurav Thareja	Kepler Computing	15
#17	Puneet Agarwal	Innovium	15
#20	Radhakrishnan L. Nagarajan	Inphi	14
#20	Hui Li	Rigel Pharmaceuticals	14
#22	Balasubramanian Pranatharthiharan	IBM	13
#22	Jing Jiang	Xiaomi	13
#22	Anurag Agrawal	Barefoot Networks	13
#22	Toufiqul Islam	Huawei	13
#22	Shinya Ono	Apple	13
#22	Philip R. Laws	Intel	13
#28	Bernard Mont-Reynaud	Soundhound	12
#28	Pramit Manna	Applied Materials	12
#28	Paul G. Griffiths	Intuitive Surgical	12
#28	Jacek Kwiatkowski	Intel	12
#28	Changzheng Wei	Advanced New Technologies Co.	12
#33	Christopher M. Garrido	Apple	11
#33	Evan M. Richards	Meta	11
#33	Juhan Kim	LG	11
#33	Xingqin Lin	Ericsson	11
#33	Debojyoti Dutta	Cisco	11
#33	Mohit Goenka	Yahoo Assets	11
#33	Tomohiro Kawaguchi	Hitachi	11
#33	Mark Saly	Applied Materials	11
#41	Chen Zheng	Huawei	10
#41	Hiroshi Kubo	Fujitsu Limited	10
#41	Mark K. Berner	Winview	10
#41	Rajkishore Barik	Intel	10
#41	James Kai	Sandisk Technologies	10
#41	Rodney A. Gomez Angulo	Apple	10
#41	Zhichun Li	Nec	10
#48	Avetik Harutyunyan	Honda Motor Co.	9
#48	Adarsh Rajashekhar	Sandisk Technologies	9
#48	Injae Hwang	Apple	9

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