Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Cupertino, CA ranks #28 worldwide for total patents filed in 2024, with 4,169 patents from 1,456 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Cupertino, CA include Apple, China Academy Of Telecommunications Technology, LG. That works out to 69.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,456 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Hong He Apple 272
2 Haitong Sun Apple 266
3 Yuchul Kim Apple 83
#4 Debdeep Chatterjee Apple 54
#5 Srirang A. Lovlekar Apple 35
#6 Haijing Hu China Academy Of Telecommunications Technology 34
#7 Daewon Lee LG 26
#7 Paul X. Wang Apple 26
#9 Jia Tang Apple 23
#10 Yijou Chen Lacework 21
#10 Fatemeh Hamidi-Sepehr Apple 21
#10 Murali Narasimha Motorola Mobility 21
#10 Zhibin Yu Intel 21
#14 Yimin Li Innovation 20
#14 Yuniarto Widjaja Zeno Semiconductor 20
#16 Jiang Zhu Tencent 19
#16 Navindra Yadav Cisco 19
#18 Sang Soo Lee KAIST 17
#18 Jae Woo Chang Apple 17
#18 Sunil Ramesh A9.Com 17
#18 Volkmar Uhlig Ghost Autonomy 17
#18 Chunhua Li Align Technology 17
#23 Nitin Madan Dell Products 16
#23 Meghna Agrawal Skylo Technologies 16
#25 Tiffany S. Jon Apple 15
#25 Masaaki Higashitani Sandisk Technologies 15
#27 Nuwan Jayasena AMD 14
#27 Robert Dingli Pony Ai 14
#29 Gang He Honeywell 13
#29 Xiangying Yang Apple 13
#31 Scott Cohen York University 12
#31 Tianyu Wu Apple 12
#31 Lakshmi N. Kavuri Apple 12
#31 Warren S. Rieutort-Louis Apple 12
#31 Jayant Jain Nicira 12
#31 Shilpa Talwar Intel 12
#37 Sunil Kumar Emc Ip Holding Company 11
#37 Yan Chen Align Technology 11
#37 Jun Zhai Apple 11
#40 Raja Kommula Broadcom 10
#40 Marcelo Lamego Masimo 10
#40 Hyewon Lee Samsung 10
#40 Amit Agarwal Hrl Laboratories 10
#40 Srinivas Kumar Mocana 10
#40 Mohammed Golam Sarwer Alibaba 10
#40 Christoph H. Krah Apple 10
#40 Badrinath Nagarajan Apple 10
#40 Brian Tuan Samsara 10
#40 Vikram Kapoor Bromium 10
#40 Zhu Ji Apple 10

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