Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Folsom, CA ranks #255 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 11,929 patents from 1,500 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Folsom, CA include Intel, Micron, Google. That works out to 148.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,500 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Joydeep Ray Intel 501
2 Balaji Vembu Intel 296
3 Prasoonkumar Surti Intel 269
#4 Poorna Kale Micron 158
#5 Varghese George Intel 148
#6 Sanjeev Jahagirdar Intel 139
#7 Amit Kumar Srivastava Intel 137
#8 Ashutosh Garg Google 134
#9 Murali Ramadoss Intel 133
#10 Michael Apodaca Intel 108
#11 Ankur N. Shah Intel 105
#12 Nikos Kaburlasos Intel 100
#13 Prasoonkumar Surti 93
#14 Blaise Fanning Intel 88
#15 Qian Xu Thomson Licensing 87
#16 Eric C. Samson Intel 82
#17 Aditya Navale Intel 80
#18 Ben J. Ashbaugh Intel 79
#19 Renato C. Padilla Micron 75
#20 Prashant Sethi Intel 73
#21 Michael G. Fisher Synvasive Technology 68
#21 Mahesh S. Natu Intel 68
#23 Vivek Garg Intel 67
#24 Christopher Joseph Bueb Micron 66
#25 Jason Tanner Intel 65
#26 John H. Feit Intel 63
#26 Zohar Bogin Intel 63
#26 Kerry D. Tedrow Intel 63
#29 Narayan Biswal Intel 61
#30 Ryan D. Wells Intel 60
#31 Aravindh Anantaraman Intel 59
#31 Aliasgar S. Madraswala Intel 59
#33 Nausheen Ansari Intel 57
#33 James M. Holland Intel 57
#35 Jeffery S. Boles Intel 56
#36 Utkarsh Y. Kakaiya Intel 54
#36 Phanindra Kumar Mannava NVIDIA 54
#38 John Rudelic Intel 52
#39 Hari Giduturi Micron 51
#39 Michael W. Williams Intel 51
#41 Eric J. Hoekstra Intel 50
#42 Sandeep Guliani Intel 49
#42 Shankar Natarajan Intel 49
#42 Lakshminarayanan Striramassarma Intel 49
#42 Balaji Srinivasan Intel 49
#46 Aswin Thiruvengadam Micron 48
#46 Supratim Pal Intel 48
#48 Mase J. Taub Intel 47
#48 Wenyin Fu Intel 47
#50 Walid Aboul-Hosn A-Med Systems 46

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