Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Los Altos Hills, CA ranks #241 worldwide for total patents filed in 2024, with 601 patents from 157 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Los Altos Hills, CA include Apple, Rambus, Qualcomm. That works out to 70.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 157 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Jody Akana Apple 154
2 Frederick A. Ware Rambus 56
3 Clarence Chui Qualcomm 12
#4 Sharat Singh Google 10
#4 Carlos H. Diaz TSMC 10
#4 Craig M. Federighi Apple 10
#7 Mark Daniel Goldman Lunar Energy 9
#7 Alston Ghafourifar Entefy 9
#7 Pirooz Parvarandeh Maxim Integrated Products 9
#7 Joshua Makower Acclarent 9
#11 Kenneth Mixter Google 8
#11 Yoky Matsuoka Google 8
#11 Mir Imran Incube Labs 8
#11 Anand Sastry Johnson Controls Tyco Ip Holdings Llp 8
#15 David Anthony Hughes Silver Peak Systems 7
#15 Pradeep Sindhu Juniper Networks 7
#15 Gage Goodspeed Coffin Mjnn 7
#18 Bo Lin Unknown 5
#18 Peter Dorfinger Align Technology 5
#18 Andrew Wu Medtronic 5
#18 Mehdi Ghafourifar Entefy 5
#18 Ilan Frank Salesforce 5
#18 George Huang Future Dial 5
#18 Harrison Thomas Waschura Zoox 5
#18 Anupam Pathak Verily Life Sciences 5
#26 William C. Nowlin Intuitive Surgical 4
#26 Claire Liyan Ying Cadence Design Systems 4
#26 Jun Kim Rambus 4
#26 Mark Selker Finesse Solutions 4
#26 Junsheng Han Qualcomm 4
#26 Milena Banjevic Natera 4
#26 Richard A. Blanchard Nthdegree Technologies Worldwide 4
#26 Behrooz Shahsavari Apple 4
#26 Rajesh Ambati Apple 4
#35 Alexander Yeh Stanford University 3
#35 George D. Hermann General Surgical Innovations 3
#35 Sebastian Thrun Google 3
#35 Frank Petterson Alivecor 3
#35 Brienne Ghafourifar Entefy 3
#35 Kollin M. Tierling Immersion 3
#35 Michael Chu Google 3
#35 Becky Scanlon Willow Innovations 3
#35 John P. Ternus Apple 3
#35 Joshua Silverman Calysta 3
#35 Erik Schwartz Tempus Ex Machina 3
#35 Eric Anthony Kramer Novonate 3
#35 Alexander Jensen Zim Aircraft Seating Gmbh 3
#35 Vijay Vasudevan Google 3
#35 Lacky V. Shah NVIDIA 3
#35 Srikanth Arekapudi Cerebras Systems 3

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