Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Mountain View, CA ranks #18 worldwide for total patents filed in 2024, with 5,609 patents from 2,666 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Mountain View, CA include Apple, Toyota, Beijing Voyager Technology Co.. That works out to 68.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 2,666 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Murtaza A. Shikari Apple 43
2 Kentaro Oguchi Toyota 27
3 Yue Lu Beijing Voyager Technology Co. 26
#4 YooJung Ahn Google 24
#5 Manuel Ludwig Kuehner Toyota 22
#6 Takamasa Higuchi Toyota 21
#7 Onur Altintas Toyota 20
#7 Seyhan Ucar Toyota 20
#9 Prashant Tiwari Toyota 19
#9 Naveen Neelakantam Pure Storage 19
#9 Tao Ma BOE 19
#9 John Hayes Pure Storage 19
#9 Mikhail Ermolenko Theai 19
#14 Christopher Daryl Soli Apple 17
#14 Andrew R. Bernat Pure Storage 17
#16 Mark Siminoff Amazon 16
#16 Michael Cap Koval Berkshire Grey Operating Company 16
#18 Wei Xiong Comcast 15
#18 David A. Fattal Leia 15
#18 Yu Zhang Morgan Stanley Services Group 15
#21 Ying Yu Tai Micron 14
#21 Martin F. Schubert Micron 14
#23 Thomas Vogelsang Rambus 13
#23 Peter P. Tong Vesture 13
#23 Colin Braley Google 13
#23 Takayuki Shimizu Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha 13
#23 Yang Liu Apple 13
#23 Madhu PERINGASSERY KRISHNAN Tencent America 13
#23 Thomas B. Eby Pacesetter 13
#30 Paul W. Mohr Intuitive Surgical 12
#30 Keith A. Miller Applied Materials 12
#30 Josselin de la Broise Tile 12
#30 Nicholas Armstrong-Crews Google 12
#30 Matthew Shreve Xerox 12
#30 Nathaniel Fairfield Google 12
#36 Harshit Naresh Chitalia Juniper Networks 11
#36 Regina Madigan Allstate Insurance 11
#36 Yevgeniy Kozlenko Skydio 11
#36 Carlos Horacio Aldana Qualcomm 11
#36 Srinivas Kaza Align Technology 11
#36 Tyler S. Bushnell Apple 11
#36 Abbas Komijani Apple 11
#36 Andrew Nuttall Skylo Technologies 11
#44 Gabriel Harley Sunpower 10
#44 Phillip Gooding Amo Development 10
#44 Lucian Ion Google 10
#44 Guang Hu Micron 10
#44 Rajendra Tushar Moorti Broadcom 10
#44 Christopher James Kelley Google 10
#44 Artem Goncharuk Google 10

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