Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Sunnyvale, CA ranks #14 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 6,650 patents from 3,062 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Sunnyvale, CA include Meta, Disney, Tencent America. That works out to 42.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 3,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Debashish Paul Meta 45
2 Hui-Ling Lou Disney 37
3 Liang Zhao Tencent America 34
#4 Jiangtao Hu Baidu Usa 31
#4 Kevin Will Chen Apple 31
#6 Dennis Hui Ericsson 27
#6 Shashank Merchant Roku 27
#6 Wan Si Wan Apple 27
#9 Gaurav Bhaya Google 25
#10 Tao Zhao Intuitive Surgical 24
#10 Jong-Kae Fwu Intel 24
#10 Ivan Poupyrev Google 24
#13 Yu Cao Asml Netherlands B.V. 23
#14 Zhen Wang BOE 22
#15 Mo-Han Fong Apple 21
#16 Amit Kumar Avnera 19
#17 Quoc V. Le Google 18
#17 Amir Farajidana Qualcomm 18
#19 Ludovic Godet Applied Materials 17
#20 Andrew Schoneweis Google 16
#20 Rui Cao Disney 16
#22 Amir Aminzadeh Gohari Qualcomm 15
#22 Dimin Niu Samsung 15
#22 Daniel W. Jarvis Apple 15
#25 Colin M. Ely Apple 14
#25 Andre Prager Wing Aviation 14
#25 Ilya Daniel Rosenberg Sensel 14
#25 Guillaume P. Barlier Apple 14
#25 Shun Jiang IBM 14
#30 Rutger Meyer Timmerman Thijssen Applied Materials 13
#30 Gokul Sridharan Qualcomm 13
#30 Govind Salinas Cisco 13
#30 Jonathan Segev Intel 13
#30 Yue Zhou Huawei 13
#35 Yun Qiao BOE 12
#35 Nitish Swarup Intuitive Surgical 12
#35 Zhe Zhang Trifo 12
#35 Sagi Varghese Mathai Hewlett Packard Enterprise 12
#35 Michael W. Stowell Lyten 12
#35 Arjun Bharadwaj Qualcomm 12
#35 Jingwan Lu Adobe 12
#42 Abhishek Kar Fyusion 11
#42 Thayumanavan Sridhar Broadcom 11
#42 Barak Gafni NVIDIA 11
#42 Jinghao Miao Baidu Usa 11
#42 Maj Isabelle Olsson Google 11
#42 Zhifeng Chen Google 11
#42 Stefan Rusu TSMC 11
#42 Ashish Khushal Dharamshi Yahoo Assets 11
#50 Chandrasekaran Sakthivel Intel 10

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