Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Mountain View, CA ranks #22 worldwide for total patents filed in 2025, with 4,658 patents from 2,056 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Mountain View, CA include Apple, Tencent America, Toyota. That works out to 56.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 2,056 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Murtaza A. Shikari Apple 32
2 Madhu PERINGASSERY KRISHNAN Tencent America 30
2 Kentaro Oguchi Toyota 30
#4 Seyhan Ucar Toyota 22
#5 Thomas Vogelsang Rambus 21
#6 Sen Lin Aurora Operations 20
#7 Yevgeniy Kozlenko Skydio 18
#7 Laura Weeks Shane Kodiak Robotics 18
#7 Swadesh Choudhary Intel 18
#10 Caitlin Q. Donhowe Intuitive Surgical 17
#10 Manuel Ludwig Kuehner Toyota 17
#12 Ying Yu Tai Micron 16
#13 Jay Kuvelker Kodiak Robotics 15
#13 Chenguang Liu Samsung 15
#13 Wei Xiong Comcast 15
#13 Donald Jason Burnette Google 15
#17 Mark Siminoff Amazon 14
#17 Onur Altintas Toyota 14
#17 Emrah Akin Sisbot Toyota 14
#17 Andrew R. Bernat Pure Storage 14
#17 Christopher Daryl Soli Apple 14
#17 Court S. Hinricher Kodiak Robotics 14
#23 Takamasa Higuchi Toyota 13
#23 Marc B. Taub Abbott 13
#23 Naveen Neelakantam Pure Storage 13
#23 David A. Fattal Leia 13
#23 John Zinn Kodiak Robotics 13
#28 Yang Liu Apple 12
#28 Trevor Strohman Google 12
#28 Ran Xu Beijing Zhigu Rui Tuo Tech Co. 12
#28 Gaurav Sharma Xerox 12
#32 David S. Mintz Auris Health 11
#32 Maria Moon Google 11
#32 John Hayes Pure Storage 11
#32 Robert David Srinivasiah Pacific Light & Hologram 11
#32 Gary Li Freeescale Semiconductor 11
#32 William Redington Hewlett, II Palo Alto Networks 11
#32 Brian D. Hoffman Intuitive Surgical 11
#32 Siddharth Jain Intuit 11
#32 Rajendra Tushar Moorti Broadcom 11
#32 Srinivas Kaza Align Technology 11
#32 Tao Ma BOE 11
#32 Zachary Albert West Skydio 11
#44 Victor Kai Liu Magic Leap 10
#44 Josselin de la Broise Tile 10
#44 Joseph Rafidi Palantir Technologies 10
#44 Michael Cap Koval Berkshire Grey Operating Company 10
#44 Sean Paterson Yohana 10
#44 Yu Zhang Morgan Stanley Services Group 10
#44 Igor Ostrovsky Pure Storage 10

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