Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Mountain View, CA ranks #18 worldwide for total patents filed in 2023, with 5,610 patents from 2,712 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Mountain View, CA include Micron, Apple, Pure Storage. That works out to 68.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 2,712 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Martin F. Schubert Micron 26
2 Murtaza A. Shikari Apple 24
2 John Hayes Pure Storage 24
#4 Wei Xiong Comcast 22
#5 Manuel Ludwig Kuehner Toyota 20
#5 Ying Yu Tai Micron 20
#7 Nathaniel Fairfield Google 18
#8 Basheer Tome Google 17
#9 Naveen Neelakantam Pure Storage 16
#9 Peter P. Tong Vesture 16
#9 YooJung Ahn Google 16
#9 Prashant Tiwari Toyota 16
#13 Andrew R. Bernat Pure Storage 15
#14 Mark Siminoff Amazon 14
#14 Maria Moon Google 14
#16 Gaurav Sharma Xerox 13
#16 Michael Cap Koval Berkshire Grey Operating Company 13
#16 Andrew Nuttall Skylo Technologies 13
#16 Josselin de la Broise Tile 13
#20 Carlos Horacio Aldana Qualcomm 12
#20 Thomas Vogelsang Rambus 12
#20 Kentaro Oguchi Toyota 12
#20 Takamasa Higuchi Toyota 12
#20 Shou-Sung Chang Applied Materials 12
#20 Saigopal Nelaturi Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated 12
#26 Michael Steven Montemerlo Google 11
#26 BaekGyu Kim Toyota 11
#26 Saket Kumar Sony 11
#26 Igor Ostrovsky Pure Storage 11
#26 Xiaokai Li Apple 11
#26 Andreas Wendel Google 11
#26 Artem Goncharuk Google 11
#33 Regina Madigan Allstate Insurance 10
#33 Adrian Drzewiecki Broadcom 10
#33 Chenguang Liu Samsung 10
#33 Khaled Refaat Google 10
#33 Arthur Y. Zhang Apple 10
#33 Mayank Agarwal Cisco 10
#33 Seyhan Ucar Toyota 10
#33 Jaime Lien Google 10
#33 Takayuki Shimizu Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha 10
#33 Tim Holme Quantumscape 10
#43 Kevin J. Miller Gauss Surgical 9
#43 David A. Fattal Leia 9
#43 Subramanya P. HERLE Applied Materials 9
#43 Sen Lin Aurora Operations 9
#43 Onur Altintas Toyota 9
#43 Tuna Toksoz Google 9
#43 Joseph Rafidi Palantir Technologies 9
#43 Tarun Jain Google 9

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