Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Boise, ID ranks #48 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 45,192 patents from 3,546 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Boise, ID include Micron, Disney.

Showing 1–50 of 3,546 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Gurtej S. Sandhu Micron 1,397
2 Salman Akram Micron 726
3 Alan G. Wood Micron 399
#4 David R. Hembree Micron 366
#5 Brent Keeth Micron 333
#6 Chandra Mouli Micron 320
#7 Sanh D. Tang Micron 306
#8 Haitao Liu Micron 293
#9 Fabio Pellizzer Micron 289
#10 Kunal R. Parekh Micron 287
#11 Glen E. Hush Micron 244
#12 Durai Vishak Nirmal Ramaswamy Micron 237
#13 Scott E. Sills Micron 236
#14 Kirk D. Prall Micron 225
#15 Yongjun Jeff Hu Micron 214
#16 Peter Feeley Micron 205
#17 John T. Moore Micron 202
#18 Walter L. Moden Micron 199
#19 Timothy M. Hollis Micron 198
#20 Guy T. Blalock Micron 189
#21 Scott J. Derner Micron 187
#22 John D. Porter Micron 186
#23 Terry L. Gilton Micron 179
#24 Todd A. Merritt Micron 178
#25 James M. Wark Micron 173
#26 Jerry M. Brooks Micron 170
#27 Kang-Yong Kim Micron 165
#28 Richard C. Murphy Micron 164
#29 Douglas G. Keithley Disney 157
#29 Jonathan S. Parry Micron 157
#31 David H. Wells Micron 156
#32 Kamal M. Karda Micron 152
#33 Scott E. Schaefer Micron 151
#33 Tae H. Kim Micron 151
#35 Stephen L. Casper Micron 148
#36 J. Brett Rolfson Micron 147
#37 David Aaron Palmer Micron 144
#38 Jian Li Micron 143
#39 Timothy B. Cowles Micron 142
#39 Kevin G. Duesman Micron 142
#39 Vishnu K. Agarwal Micron 142
#42 Jeffrey P. Wright Micron 140
#43 Terry R. Lee Micron 139
#43 John Smythe Micron 139
#45 Yuji Fujiwara Yamaha 137
#46 Fatma Arzum Simsek-Ege Micron 134
#47 Michael A. Smith Micron 131
#47 Ward Parkinson Ovonyx 131
#47 Yuan He Micron 131
#50 Scott Meikle Micron 130

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