Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Cupertino, CA ranks #34 worldwide for total patents filed in 2025, with 3,415 patents from 1,125 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Cupertino, CA include Apple, China Academy Of Telecommunications Technology, Lacework. That works out to 56.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,125 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Haitong Sun Apple 239
2 Hong He Apple 232
3 Yuchul Kim Apple 68
#4 Haijing Hu China Academy Of Telecommunications Technology 35
#4 Srirang A. Lovlekar Apple 35
#6 Debdeep Chatterjee Apple 33
#7 Yijou Chen Lacework 30
#8 Jae Woo Chang Apple 26
#9 Paul X. Wang Apple 25
#9 Scott Cohen York University 25
#11 Sunil Ramesh A9.Com 20
#12 Jia Tang Apple 18
#13 Chunhua Li Align Technology 17
#13 Sang Soo Lee KAIST 17
#15 Thalia Jimena Echevarria Fiol Apple 15
#16 Navindra Yadav Cisco 14
#16 Tianyu Wu Apple 14
#16 Nuwan Jayasena AMD 14
#19 Xiaowen Wang Apple 13
#19 Shilpa Talwar Intel 13
#19 Nitin Madan Dell Products 13
#22 Sunil Kumar Emc Ip Holding Company 12
#22 Ali Tabatabai Sony 12
#22 Tiffany S. Jon Apple 12
#22 Jayant Jain Nicira 12
#22 Yingkit Felix Tsui TSMC 12
#27 Daniel B. Pollack Apple 11
#27 Nathan Gitter Apple 11
#29 Jessica Liu Strohmann Qualcomm 10
#29 Alican Nalci Qualcomm 10
#29 Fucheng Wang Apple 10
#29 Chien-Hui Wen Google 10
#29 Mohammed Golam Sarwer Alibaba 10
#29 Huiwen Xu 10
#29 Keiji Mabuchi Sony 10
#29 Ranjit Desai Apple 10
#29 Hyewon Lee Samsung 10
#29 Masaaki Higashitani Sandisk Technologies 10
#39 Ashok Lahiri Enovix 9
#39 Sharath Ananth Aalyria Technologies 9
#39 Hui Zang Globalfoundries 9
#39 Jennifer Patton Apple 9
#39 Lakshmi N. Kavuri Apple 9
#39 Ning LUO Qualcomm 9
#39 Daewon Lee LG 9
#39 Jun Zhai Apple 9
#39 Siying Yang Netskope 9
#39 Yimin Li Innovation 9
#39 Marcelo Lamego Masimo 9
#39 Risto Kojcev Cilag Gmbh International 9

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