Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Stanford, CA ranks #309 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 450 patents from 239 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Stanford, CA include Zoox, Stanford University, Made In Space. That works out to 21.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 239 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Timothy David Kentley-Klay Zoox 30
2 Irving L. Weissman Stanford University 17
3 Nahuel Elias Battaglia Zoox 15
#4 Michael Snyder Made In Space 10
#5 Samuel Strober Stanford University 7
#5 Onur Can Akkaya Microsoft 7
#5 Zhenan Bao Stanford University 7
#8 Jennifer R. Cochran Stanford University 6
#8 Stephen R. Quake Caltech 6
#8 Robert Lowsky Stanford University 6
#11 Shreyas S. Vasanawala Stanford University 5
#11 Karl Deisseroth Stanford University 5
#11 Risto Miikkulainen Cognizant Technology Solutions U.S. 5
#11 Cheng-en Guo X Development 5
#11 Jerry Talton Salesforce 5
#16 Tianyi Zhang Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. Of Zhuhai 4
#16 Geoffrey C. Gurtner Stanford University 4
#16 Hannah Valantine Stanford University 4
#16 John M. Pauly Stanford University 4
#16 Ken Takeuchi Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 4
#16 Tudor Giurgica-Tiron Meta 4
#16 Ayesha Mudassir Khwaja Samsung 4
#16 Scott L. Delp Cala Health 4
#16 Yury Goltsev Stanford University 4
#16 Shanhui Fan Stanford University 4
#16 Roland Bammer Stanford University 4
#27 Sudipto Guha AT&T 3
#27 Tracey L. McLaughlin Stanford University 3
#27 Hon-Sum Philip Wong IBM 3
#27 Arun Majumdar Kyndi 3
#27 Dimitri Petrov Natera 3
#27 Wei Liang Stanford University 3
#27 Patrick O'Reilly Brown Impossible Foods 3
#27 Eric Mitchell Samsung 3
#27 Oleksiy Khomenko 23Andme 3
#27 Xiao Wang Arizona Board Of Regents For And On Behalf Of Arizona State University 3
#27 Anthony J. Ricci Lam Research 3
#27 Stanley N. Cohen Stanford University 3
#27 Utkan Demirci Brigham and Women's Hospital 3
#27 Colleen M. Craig Stanford University 3
#27 Olav Solgaard Stanford University 3
#42 Nicholas Cizek Malta 2
#42 Irene Li Acellent Technologies 2
#42 Xingze Wang Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. 2
#42 Harris Fienberg Stanford University 2
#42 Allen Lu Echonous 2
#42 Hyunghoon Cho Palantir Technologies 2
#42 Sangmoo Jeong Stanford University 2
#42 Ehsan Adeli-Mosabbeb 2
#42 Mark M. Davis Stanford University 2

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