Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Edinburgh, GB ranks #646 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 5,191 patents from 1,358 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Edinburgh, GB include Cirrus Logic, Sandisk Technologies, Nellcor Puritan Bennett Ireland.

Showing 1–50 of 1,358 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 John Paul Lesso Cirrus Logic 299
2 Sergey Anatolievich Gorobets Sandisk Technologies 163
3 James N. Watson Nellcor Puritan Bennett Ireland 140
#4 Jeffrey M. Raynor Stmicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited 80
#5 Liam Michael Parker Western Digital Technologies 53
#6 Gary Ross Ncr 50
#7 Richard Ian Laming Pirelli Cavi E Sistemi S.P.A. 48
#8 Neale Dutton Stmicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited 47
#9 Niall James Caldwell Artemis Intelligent Power Limited 46
#10 Uwe Bernhard Pascal Stein Artemis Intelligent Power Limited 38
#11 Thomas Ivan Harvey Cirrus Logic 36
#11 Guillaume de Cremoux Dialog Semiconductor (Uk) Limited 36
#13 Harald Haas University Court Of The University Of Edinburgh 31
#13 Dominique Jacquel Covidien Lp 31
#15 James McLusky Johnson & Johnson 29
#16 Barry Wright Sandisk Technologies 28
#17 Bruce Rae Stmicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited 27
#18 Euan James Boyd Aac Acoustic Technologies (Shenzhen) Co. 26
#19 Richard L. Walke AMD 24
#19 Thomas A. Kean AMD 24
#19 Seyed Amir Ali Danesh 24
#19 Alexander Roger Deas Acuid Corporation Limited 24
#19 Ian Poole Toshiba Medical Systems 24
#24 Magnus Wahrenberg Canon 22
#24 Austin Gerard Smith The University Of Edinburgh 22
#24 Scott McGonigle Nellcor Puritan Bennett Ireland 22
#27 Andre Antunes Covidien Lp 21
#27 Pierre Joly CEA 21
#27 Gregor J. Brown Cameron International 21
#27 Scott Lyall Cargill Cirrus Logic 21
#27 Willem Zwart Cirrus Logic 21
#27 Stuart McLeod Stmicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited 21
#33 George Redfield Spalding, Jr. Analog Devices International Unlimited 20
#33 Colin Steele Austriamicrosystems Ag 20
#33 William Michael James Holland Analog Devices International Unlimited 20
#36 Lynne M. Coventry Ncr 19
#36 Andrew J. HOWLETT Cirrus Logic 19
#36 Carsten Giebeler Pyreos 19
#36 Anthony James Magrath Wolfson Microelectronics 19
#36 John Scott Strachan Unknown 19
#41 Stephen H. Salter Intellectual Ventures 18
#41 Brian Mohr Toshiba Medical Systems 18
#41 John F. Roulston Novatrans Group Sa 18
#44 Lucy MacGregor Ohm 17
#45 Claudio Biancotto Commscope Technologies 16
#45 Jonathan James Loughrey Inspirna 16
#45 Mark McCloy-Stevens Cirrus Logic 16
#45 Stephen Michael Laird Artemis Intelligent Power Limited 16
#45 Jonathan Ephriam David Hurwitz 16
#45 Tughrul Sati Arslan Sensewhere Limited 16