Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Cupertino, CA ranks #31 worldwide for total patents filed in 2022, with 3,464 patents from 1,445 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Cupertino, CA include Apple, Nicira, Cypress Semiconductor. That works out to 57.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,445 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Hong He Apple 37
2 Haitong Sun Apple 34
3 Jayant Jain Nicira 33
#4 Paul X. Wang Apple 32
#4 Debdeep Chatterjee Apple 32
#6 Yuchul Kim Apple 29
#7 Bo Jin Cypress Semiconductor 23
#8 Srirang A. Lovlekar Apple 22
#9 Peter Rabkin Sandisk Technologies 21
#10 Yen-Kuang Chen Intel 20
#10 Hui Zang Globalfoundries 20
#10 Navindra Yadav Cisco 20
#13 Lakshmi N. Kavuri Apple 19
#14 Zhibin Yu Intel 18
#14 Dmitry Lubomirsky Applied Materials 18
#14 Meghna Agrawal Skylo Technologies 18
#17 Sunil Kumar Emc Ip Holding Company 17
#17 Guoqing Li Apple 17
#19 Han-Wen Chen Applied Materials 16
#19 Masaaki Higashitani Sandisk Technologies 16
#21 Gang He Honeywell 15
#22 Yuniarto Widjaja Zeno Semiconductor 14
#22 Jae Woo Chang Apple 14
#22 Zhu Ji Apple 14
#22 Li Su Apple 14
#22 Jiang Zhu Tencent 14
#22 Scott Cohen York University 14
#28 Michele Piccardi Micron 13
#28 Sharath Ananth Aalyria Technologies 13
#28 Jia Tang Apple 13
#28 Marcelo Lamego Masimo 13
#28 Yimin Li Innovation 13
#33 Raja Kommula Broadcom 12
#33 Tianyan Pu Apple 12
#33 Shilpa Talwar Intel 12
#36 Mohammed Golam Sarwer Alibaba 11
#36 Chunhua Li Align Technology 11
#36 Sang Soo Lee KAIST 11
#36 James R. Wilson Apple 11
#36 Jose Pio Pereira Netlogic Microsystems 11
#36 Hrishikesh Vijaykumar Panchawagh Qualcomm 11
#36 Tiffany S. Jon Apple 11
#36 Carlos Cordeiro Apple 11
#44 Xiangying Yang Apple 10
#44 Tanveer F. Syeda-Mahmood IBM 10
#44 Rama Kalyani T. Akkiraju IBM 10
#44 Victor H. Yin Apple 10
#44 Daniel R. Bloom Apple 10
#49 Nuwan Jayasena AMD 9
#49 Kyung Suk Oh Rambus 9

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