Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Santa Clara, CA ranks #23 worldwide for total patents filed in 2022, with 4,650 patents from 2,128 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Santa Clara, CA include Tencent America, Broadcom, Xerox. That works out to 36.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 2,128 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Xin Zhao Tencent America 99
2 Wenguang Wang Broadcom 51
3 Lin Ma Xerox 40
#4 Vamsi Pavan Rayaprolu Micron 37
#5 Harish Reddy Singidi Micron 30
#6 Xingqin Lin Ericsson 25
#7 Justin E. Gottschlich Intel 23
#8 Yang Tang Apple 21
#8 Vitor Guizilini Toyota 21
#8 Gaurav Thareja Kepler Computing 21
#11 Shiyu Song Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co. 19
#11 Mark Saly Applied Materials 19
#13 Srinivas Gandikota Applied Materials 18
#13 Heng Wu IBM 18
#15 Changzheng Wei Advanced New Technologies Co. 17
#16 Christopher J. Hughes Intel 16
#16 Kumar Bhargav Viswanatha Aeva 16
#18 Tomohiro Kawaguchi Hitachi 15
#18 Hilmi Enes Egilmez Qualcomm 15
#18 Juhan Kim LG 15
#21 Radhakrishnan L. Nagarajan Inphi 14
#21 Nathan Craig Robert Bosch Gmbh 14
#21 Adarsh Rajashekhar Sandisk Technologies 14
#21 Manmohan Chandraker Nec 14
#21 Kyuil Cho Applied Materials 14
#26 Won Ho Choi Sandisk Technologies 13
#26 Xiang Yang Sandisk Technologies 13
#26 Krishnakumar Narayanan Nair Meta 13
#26 Hui Li Rigel Pharmaceuticals 13
#26 Jing Jiang Xiaomi 13
#31 Toufiqul Islam Huawei 12
#31 Anurag Agrawal Barefoot Networks 12
#33 Rajesh Semwal Arista Networks 11
#33 Ilyas Mohammed Tessera 11
#33 Avetik Harutyunyan Honda Motor Co. 11
#33 Valentina Salapura IBM 11
#33 Pramit Manna Applied Materials 11
#33 Rafael L. Rivera-Barreto Apple 11
#33 Liangxiao Xin Sony 11
#33 Michael Albert Asker Equal1.Labs 11
#33 Chen Zheng Huawei 11
#42 Shinya Ono Apple 10
#42 Binh Tran Dango Products 10
#42 Keith Gagne Aeva 10
#45 Kulachet Tanpairoj Micron 9
#45 Rajkishore Barik Intel 9
#45 Gamal Refai-Ahmed AMD 9
#45 Puneet Agarwal Innovium 9
#45 Arash Farhoodfar Inphi 9
#45 Anuraag Mittal Arista Networks 9

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