Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Los Altos, CA ranks #59 worldwide for total patents filed in 2023, with 1,912 patents from 741 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Los Altos, CA include Pure Storage, View, Qualcomm. That works out to 60.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 741 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 John Colgrove Pure Storage 41
2 Dhairya Shrivastava View 29
2 Zhibin Wu Qualcomm 29
#4 Pierre-Yves Droz Google 28
#5 Junwei Bao Tokyo Electron Limited 22
#6 Fletcher R. Rothkopf Apple 17
#7 Travis Michael Schuh Auris Health 16
#8 Gary B. Mandle Baylor University 15
#8 Li Li Apple 15
#8 Sumeeth Nagaraja Qualcomm 15
#11 Lin Han Zoom Video Communications 14
#12 Nathan Beckett Sunpower 13
#12 Jeffrey L. Robbin Apple 13
#14 Suryaprakash Ganti Frore Systems 12
#14 David Liu Plusai 12
#14 Sivapackia Ganapathiappan HP 12
#17 Dane Glasgow Ebay 11
#17 Dmitri A. Dolgov Google 11
#17 Sudeep Pillai Toyota 11
#20 Timothy L. Hinrichs Styra 10
#20 Peter E. Kirkpatrick Pure Storage 10
#20 Yue Wang Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 10
#23 Jindrich Dinga Cisco 9
#23 Ely Tsern Rambus 9
#23 Andrew Steil Michaels Aurora Operations 9
#23 Masoud Vakili Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 9
#23 Mark Alan Arbore Apple 9
#23 Christopher D. Jones Apple 9
#23 Hasan Akyol Apple 9
#23 Pawan Kumar Singh Hewlett Packard Enterprise 9
#23 Erik Toomre Seurat Technologies 9
#23 Stephen J. Blumenkranz Intuitive Surgical 9
#23 Sean Matthews Rovi Guides 9
#23 Drazen Borkovic Amazon 9
#23 Craig E. Hampel Rambus 9
#36 Robert Tremaine Whalen Boost Treadmills 8
#36 Dianmin Lin Magic Leap 8
#36 Byungchul Kim Samsung 8
#36 Gordon James Coleman Pure Storage 8
#36 Yunchao Gong Snap 8
#36 Scott Forstall Apple 8
#36 Abhay Gupta Oracle 8
#43 Donald F. Gordon Gracenote 7
#43 Hui Ding Huawei 7
#43 Tal Perl Truemeeting 7
#43 Henning Schmiedehausen Zuora 7
#43 Pu-sen Chao Google 7
#43 Matthew A. Mow Apple 7
#43 Pradeep Kumar Kathail Cisco 7
#43 Ram Kesavan Netapp 7

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