Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Menlo Park, CA ranks #66 worldwide for total patents filed in 2023, with 1,743 patents from 775 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Menlo Park, CA include Salesforce, Snowflake, Cadence Design Systems. That works out to 51.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 775 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Caiming Xiong Salesforce 40
2 Jiaqi Yan Snowflake 22
3 Richard Socher Salesforce 19
#4 Steven Teig Cadence Design Systems 18
#5 Jean-Marc Gady Apple 15
#5 Darren S. Engelkemier Ethernovia 15
#7 Pablo Garcia Kilroy Sri International 13
#7 Chris Decenzo Icontrol Networks 13
#7 Thomas G. Cooper Intuitive Surgical 13
#7 John H. Shadduck Dfine 13
#7 Robert Jan Visser Applied Materials 13
#12 Brett W. Degner Apple 12
#13 Nicola Diolaiti Intuitive Surgical 11
#13 Bruce M. Schena Intuitive Surgical 11
#15 Reza Raji Icontrol Networks 10
#15 Yusef Desjardins Ferhani Rondo Energy 10
#17 Ahmad Byagowi Meta 9
#17 Boyu Wang Amazon 9
#17 Kazuma Hashimoto Salesforce 9
#17 Thomas Christopher Cecil Synopsys 9
#21 John Raff Apple 8
#21 David Michael Pickett Meta 8
#21 Jagadish Venkataraman Verb Surgical 8
#21 Colin Deane Wessells Natron Energy 8
#21 Ralph Hamilton Shepard Google 8
#21 Neil Vachharajani Pure Storage 8
#21 Sawyer I. Cohen Apple 8
#28 Mark T. Winkler Apple 7
#28 Oleg Rogynskyy People.Ai 7
#28 Shabnam Ghadar Adobe 7
#28 Douglas B. Satzger Apple 7
#28 Alexander W. Liston Rovi Guides 7
#28 Phil M. Hobson Apple 7
#28 Daniel Roitman Agilent Technologies 7
#35 Rowena Young Rovi Guides 6
#35 Haoran Yu Verb Surgical 6
#35 Andrew Tomkins Google 6
#35 Gregory Diamos Baidu Usa 6
#35 Sina Miri Igt 6
#35 Cheng-Lin Yeh Abnormal Security 6
#35 Robert D. Watson Apple 6
#35 Francois Labonte Arista Networks 6
#35 William Guie Rivard Duelight 6
#35 Peter Pawlowski Google 6
#35 Sean A. McNiven Cephea Valve Technologies 6
#35 Edward Chia Ning Tang Avegant 6
#35 Sam Kavusi Robert Bosch Gmbh 6
#35 Jens-Peter Volkmer Stanford University 6
#35 Michael H. Rosenthal Spirox 6
#35 Arash Jamshidi Grail 6

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