Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Mountain View, CA ranks #19 worldwide for total patents filed in 2022, with 5,225 patents from 2,575 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Mountain View, CA include Apple, Google, Amazon. That works out to 63.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 2,575 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Murtaza A. Shikari Apple 23
1 YooJung Ahn Google 23
1 Mark Siminoff Amazon 23
#4 Wei Xiong Comcast 21
#4 David A. Fattal Leia 21
#6 Kentaro Oguchi Toyota 20
#6 Jason Holland Meta 20
#8 Takayuki Shimizu Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha 19
#9 Seyhan Ucar Toyota 18
#9 Martin F. Schubert Micron 18
#11 Takamasa Higuchi Toyota 17
#11 Tao Ma BOE 17
#13 Robert Lee 16
#13 Ying Yu Tai Micron 16
#13 Gaurav Sharma Xerox 16
#13 John Hayes Pure Storage 16
#17 Peter P. Tong Vesture 15
#18 Naveen Neelakantam Pure Storage 14
#18 Onur Altintas Toyota 14
#18 BaekGyu Kim Toyota 14
#21 Christopher Daryl Soli Apple 13
#22 Hui Fang Alipay Labs (Singapore) Pte. 12
#22 Andrew Nuttall Skylo Technologies 12
#22 Andrew R. Bernat Pure Storage 12
#22 Jose Krause Perin 12
#22 Yue Lu Beijing Voyager Technology Co. 12
#22 Harshit Naresh Chitalia Juniper Networks 12
#28 Apeksha Kumavat Gatik Ai 11
#28 Rajendra Tushar Moorti Broadcom 11
#28 Madhu Peringassery Krishnan Fastvdo 11
#28 Lingkai Kong Beijing Voyager Technology Co. 11
#28 Saigopal Nelaturi Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated 11
#28 Paul W. Mohr Intuitive Surgical 11
#28 Hui Tang Tencent America 11
#28 Tyler S. Bushnell Apple 11
#28 Joëlle K. Barral Verily Life Sciences 11
#28 Arjun Narang Gatik Ai 11
#28 Gautam Narang Gatik Ai 11
#39 Manuel Ludwig Kuehner Toyota 10
#39 Gaurav Bansal Bank of America 10
#39 Prashant Tiwari Toyota 10
#39 Mayank Agarwal Cisco 10
#43 Thomas Mark Ulrich Meta 9
#43 Jimei Yang Adobe 9
#43 Michael Cap Koval Berkshire Grey Operating Company 9
#43 Xin Zhou IBM 9
#43 Ojas Gupta Broadcom 9
#43 Ryan McMichael Zoox 9
#43 Jessie Cindy Maikim Resmed Pty 9
#43 Josselin de la Broise Tile 9

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