Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Cupertino, CA ranks #30 worldwide for total patents filed in 2023, with 3,592 patents from 1,427 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Cupertino, CA include Apple, Nicira, Innovation. That works out to 59.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,427 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Yuchul Kim Apple 60
2 Hong He Apple 56
3 Haitong Sun Apple 54
#4 Debdeep Chatterjee Apple 31
#5 Jayant Jain Nicira 30
#6 Paul X. Wang Apple 27
#6 Yimin Li Innovation 27
#8 Srirang A. Lovlekar Apple 24
#9 Chunhua Li Align Technology 22
#10 Carlos Cordeiro Apple 20
#11 Jae Woo Chang Apple 18
#12 Volkmar Uhlig Ghost Autonomy 17
#13 Lakshmi N. Kavuri Apple 16
#14 Hui Zang Globalfoundries 15
#14 Yuniarto Widjaja Zeno Semiconductor 15
#16 Marcelo Lamego Masimo 14
#16 Siying Yang Netskope 14
#16 Li Su Apple 14
#19 Guoqing Li Apple 13
#19 Meghna Agrawal Skylo Technologies 13
#19 Pankaj Thakkar Nicira 13
#19 Robert Dingli Pony Ai 13
#19 Zhu Ji Apple 13
#19 Gang He Honeywell 13
#19 Sunil Kumar Emc Ip Holding Company 13
#19 Yen-Kuang Chen Intel 13
#19 Shahrnaz Azizi Intel 13
#28 Jun Zhai Apple 12
#28 Navindra Yadav Cisco 12
#28 Ning LUO Qualcomm 12
#28 Xiangying Yang Apple 12
#28 Tianyu Wu Apple 12
#28 Nuwan Jayasena AMD 12
#28 Christoph H. Krah Apple 12
#28 Dmitry Lubomirsky Applied Materials 12
#36 Scott Cohen York University 11
#36 Tiffany S. Jon Apple 11
#36 Tanveer F. Syeda-Mahmood IBM 11
#36 Hyewon Lee Samsung 11
#36 Jun Tao Western Digital Technologies 11
#36 Srikanth Devarajan Zscaler 11
#36 Zhibin Yu Intel 11
#43 Michele Piccardi Micron 10
#43 Masaaki Higashitani Sandisk Technologies 10
#43 Kin Hing Leung Sambanova Systems 10
#43 Charles Chew-Yuen Young TSMC 10
#43 Aaron Partridge Sitime 10
#43 Badrinath Nagarajan Apple 10
#43 Yijou Chen Lacework 10
#43 Kunzhong Hu Apple 10

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