Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Sunnyvale, CA ranks #13 worldwide for total patents filed in 2022, with 6,725 patents from 3,097 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Sunnyvale, CA include Tencent America, Apple, Intuitive Surgical. That works out to 43.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 3,097 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Liang Zhao Tencent America 58
2 Kevin Will Chen Apple 46
3 Tao Zhao Intuitive Surgical 33
#4 Shashank Merchant Roku 32
#5 Arjun Bharadwaj Qualcomm 30
#6 Debashish Paul Meta 28
#7 Maj Isabelle Olsson Google 26
#8 Jiangtao Hu Baidu Usa 25
#8 Rutger Meyer Timmerman Thijssen Applied Materials 25
#10 Hui-Ling Lou Disney 23
#10 Wan Si Wan Apple 23
#10 Rui Cao Disney 23
#13 Gokul Sridharan Qualcomm 22
#14 Muthukumaran Dhanapal Apple 21
#15 Amit Kumar Avnera 20
#15 Jinghao Miao Baidu Usa 20
#15 Yu Cao Asml Netherlands B.V. 20
#18 Ilya Daniel Rosenberg Sensel 18
#18 Yueqiang Cheng Baidu Usa 18
#18 Erik Richard Stauffer Google 18
#18 Amir Aminzadeh Gohari Qualcomm 18
#18 Fangzhou Wang BOE 18
#23 Sushant Kumar Walmart Apollo 17
#23 Pranjal Kumar Dutta Nokia Solutions And Networks Oy 17
#23 Ludovic Godet Applied Materials 17
#23 Dennis Hui Ericsson 17
#27 Qi Luo Baidu Usa 16
#27 Xiaodong Zhang Huawei 16
#27 Wei Jiang Tencent America 16
#30 Chidambareswaran Raman Broadcom 15
#30 Michael W. Stowell Lyten 15
#30 John Aaron Zarraga Sensel 15
#30 Jemm Yue Liang Xmems Labs 15
#34 Shu Jiang Baidu Usa 14
#34 Runxin He Baidu Usa 14
#34 Quoc V. Le Google 14
#34 David Q. Larkin Reflexion Medical 14
#34 Alex J. Lehmann Apple 14
#34 Tony M. Chou Route 92 Medical 14
#40 Cheung Auyeung Tencent America 13
#40 Xiang Zhang Tencent America 13
#40 Kim R. Wagner Visa 13
#40 Himanshu Arora Emc Ip Holding Company 13
#40 Matthias Brantner Oracle 13
#45 Behsan Behzadi Aeva 12
#45 Brent Haukness Rambus 12
#45 Dimin Niu Samsung 12
#45 Michi E. Garrison Silk Road Medical 12
#45 Amir Farajidana Qualcomm 12
#45 Michael S. Strickland Intel 12

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