Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Fremont, CA ranks #24 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 79,551 patents from 9,298 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Fremont, CA include Disney, Ericsson, Cypress Semiconductor. That works out to 345.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 9,298 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Hongyuan Zhang Disney 905
2 Jung-Fu Cheng Ericsson 421
3 Yi-Pin Eric Wang Ericsson 406
#4 Minh Van Ngo Cypress Semiconductor 301
#5 Randhir P. S. Thakur Micron 292
#6 Sourabh Satish Broadcom 272
#7 Chia-Liang Lin Realtek Semiconductor 247
#8 Stephane H. Maes Oracle 234
#9 Michael C. Smayling Tela Innovations 227
#10 Ajit Nimbalker Motorola Mobility 217
#10 Abhijit Basu Mallick Applied Materials 217
#12 Min Li Headway Technologies 203
#13 Hem Takiar 199
#14 Keshav G. Kamble IBM 197
#15 Jennifer Y. Sun Applied Materials 192
#16 Roman P. Rak Research In Motion Limited 190
#17 Deepanshu Dutta Sandisk Technologies 188
#18 Chittabrata Ghosh Intel 186
#19 Taeyoung Kim Samsung 178
#20 Rajiv Yadav Ranjan Avalanche Technology 177
#21 Soo Young Choi Applied Materials 176
#22 Fred C. Redeker Applied Materials 169
#22 Dirk Robert Walter Leipold Qorvo Us 169
#24 Zhigang Bai Western Digital (Fremont) 167
#25 Ashutosh Malshe Micron 165
#25 Henry Chin Sandisk Technologies 165
#25 Puneet Gupta Tela Innovations 165
#25 Srinath Hosur Texas Instruments 165
#29 Peiman Amini Netgear 164
#30 Rui Zhang Aac Acoustic Technologies (Shenzhen) Co. 163
#30 Johnson O. Sebeni Apple 163
#32 Chandrakant Patel HP 161
#33 Angela T. Hui AMD 157
#34 Ratnesh Sharma HP 156
#35 Erwin Satrya Budiman Abbott 150
#36 Rajendra D. Pendse Stats Chippac 146
#37 Guan-Ming Su Dolby Laboratories Licensing 142
#38 Fei Mao Abbott 141
#39 Steven M. Menchen Thermo Fisher 140
#40 Nageen Himayat Intel 139
#41 Abraham C. Ma Super Talent Electronics 138
#41 Yi He Shenzhen Goodix Technology Co. 138
#43 David M. Hoffman GE 135
#44 Gilad Almogy Ultima Genomics 134
#45 Kunliang Zhang Headway Technologies 132
#46 Craig Lin E Ink California 131
#47 Benjamin Louie Micron 130
#48 Yue Liu Headway Technologies 123
#48 Priscilla Lau Verizon 123
#50 Man Lung Mui Sandisk Technologies 122

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