Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Woodside, CA ranks #363 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 393 patents from 116 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Woodside, CA include Apple, Health Hero Network, Invently Automotive. That works out to 74.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 116 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Christopher J. Stringer Apple 79
2 Stephen J. Brown Health Hero Network 19
3 Nicole G. Goldstein Invently Automotive 14
3 Hanson S. Gifford, III Medtronic 14
#5 Kevin Lynch Apple 13
#6 Jared L. Zerbe Rambus 11
#7 Benjamin J. Pope Apple 10
#8 Oliver Friedrichs Cisco 9
#9 Arnon Rosenthal Alector 8
#10 Rodney C. Perkins Earlens 6
#10 Roland Schemers Salesforce 6
#10 Christopher M. Green Apple 6
#10 William Parsons Newhall, Jr. NVIDIA 6
#14 Joshua H. Shaffer Apple 5
#14 Elliott Grant Yottamark 5
#14 Daniel Cook Lyten 5
#14 John B. Simpson Avinger 5
#18 Franck Chastagnol Dropbox 4
#18 Jeff Linnell X Development 4
#18 Brian R. Land Apple 4
#18 Yusuf Haque Exo Imaging 4
#18 Philip Bourgeois Tekni-Plex 4
#18 Aarif Yusuf Khakoo Amgen 4
#18 Pablo German Sole Barracuda Networks 4
#18 Samuel G. Parker Apple 4
#18 Darrin Jewell Apple 4
#18 Paul F. Chapuis Onq Solutions 4
#28 Paul Shen Tvu Networks 3
#28 Meike HERGET Avails Medical 3
#28 Jeffrey Linnell X Development 3
#28 Jacqueline Reses Block 3
#28 Peter J. Bannon Tesla 3
#28 Sinan Eren Barracuda Networks 3
#28 Jeremiah R. Sequoia Apple 3
#28 Juan R. Loaiza Oracle 3
#28 James Kennedy Wall Novonate 3
#37 Sahand Negahban Hagh 2
#37 Edward Y. Abbo C3.Ai 2
#37 Søren THERKELSEN 2
#37 Keith Sadoon Bahjat Aduro Biotech 2
#37 Pius Brzoska Thermo Fisher 2
#37 Wolfgang Lehrach Vicarious Fpc 2
#37 Jonathan B. Parmer Viveve 2
#37 Kyle Rothschild-Mancinelli Zymergen 2
#37 Denis De Ceuster Sunpower 2
#37 Jerome Bertrand AMD 2
#37 James W. Arenson Vytronus 2
#37 Willard V T Rusch, II Google 2
#37 Michael Sleator Google 2
#37 Brad Andrew Keahi Beck 2

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