Top Inventors in Santa Clara, CA — 2024

Santa Clara, CA ranks #23 worldwide for total patents filed in 2024, with 5,034 patents from 2,178 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Santa Clara, CA include Apple, Tencent America, Sandisk Technologies. That works out to 39.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 2,178 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Yang Tang	Apple	187
2	Xin Zhao	Tencent America	128
3	Xiang Yang	Sandisk Technologies	40
#4	Vamsi Pavan Rayaprolu	Micron	38
#5	Xingqin Lin	Ericsson	28
#6	Lin Ma	Xerox	27
#7	Vitor Guizilini	Toyota	24
#7	Toufiqul Islam	Huawei	24
#9	Heng Wu	IBM	22
#9	Mark Saly	Applied Materials	22
#9	Taoran Lu	Dolby Laboratories Licensing	22
#12	Srinivas Gandikota	Applied Materials	19
#13	Vydhyanathan Kalyanasundharam	AMD	18
#14	Christopher J. Hughes	Intel	17
#15	Wenguang Wang	Broadcom	16
#15	Benjamin Tsien	AMD	16
#15	Mahdi Azizian	Intuitive Surgical	16
#18	Kumar Bhargav Viswanatha	Aeva	15
#18	Ming Lei	The Code	15
#20	Milan Patel	Rovi Guides	14
#20	Yuhan Zhou	Apple	14
#22	Puneet Agarwal	Innovium	13
#22	Martin Clara	Intel	13
#22	Weihuang Wang	Cavium, Llc.	13
#25	Justin E. Gottschlich	Intel	12
#25	Keith Gagne	Aeva	12
#27	Alexander Sou-Kang Ko	Kateeva	11
#27	Nick Swerdlow	Zoom Video Communications	11
#27	Xiaobo Sherry Wei	Aviatrix Systems	11
#27	Shuai Xu	BOE	11
#27	Ali Shafiee Ardestani	Samsung	11
#27	Fan Du	Adobe	11
#27	Rohit Gupta	Toyota	11
#27	Shinya Ono	Apple	11
#27	Gaurav Thareja	Kepler Computing	11
#27	David Hutchison	Google	11
#27	Payal Jotwani	Apple	11
#38	Clifford Drowley	Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Shanghai)	10
#38	Timothy E. Boles	Macom Technology Solutions Holdings	10
#38	Dmitry Belov	Apple	10
#38	Yongan Xu	IBM	10
#38	Hui Li	Rigel Pharmaceuticals	10
#38	Vijay Karthik	Rubrik	10
#38	Paul G. Griffiths	Intuitive Surgical	10
#38	Radhakrishnan L. Nagarajan	Inphi	10
#46	Jing Jiang	Xiaomi	9
#46	Balasubramanian Pranatharthiharan	IBM	9
#46	Talha Khan	Ericsson	9
#46	Mohit Goenka	Yahoo Assets	9
#46	Kai Ding	Google	9

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