Top Inventors in Los Altos, CA | Patent Leaderboard

Los Altos, CA ranks #42 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 47,424 patents from 3,651 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Los Altos, CA include Pure Storage, Disney, Apple. That works out to 1499.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 3,651 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	John Colgrove	Pure Storage	385
2	Zining Wu	Disney	319
3	Scott Forstall	Apple	312
#4	Arya Behzad	Broadcom	311
#5	Craig E. Hampel	Rambus	310
#6	Fletcher R. Rothkopf	Apple	301
#7	Dan Kikinis	Elonex Ip Holdings	292
#8	Zhibin Wu	Qualcomm	288
#9	Tetsuro Motoyama	Ricoh Company	264
#10	Jeffrey L. Robbin	Apple	259
#11	Ely Tsern	Rambus	244
#12	Andreas Bibl	Apple	241
#13	Yingda Dong	Sandisk Technologies	240
#14	Mehrdad M. Moslehi	Texas Instruments	238
#15	Pierre-Yves Droz	Google	226
#16	Sumeeth Nagaraja	Qualcomm	206
#17	John Y. Chang	Acclarent	181
#17	Nima Mokhlesi	—	181
#19	Eliyahou Harari	—	180
#20	Dhairya Shrivastava	View	178
#21	Richard G. Cliff	Intel	170
#22	Sivapackia Ganapathiappan	HP	167
#23	Robert J. Drost	Oracle	163
#24	Paul D. Mannheimer	Nellcor Puritan Bennett	161
#24	Yang Pan	Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing	161
#24	Andrew Bocking	Research In Motion Limited	161
#27	Hira V. Thapliyal	Arthrocare	157
#27	Jeff Zablocki	Gilead Sciences	157
#29	Dmitri A. Dolgov	Google	151
#29	Po-Kang Wang	Headway Technologies	151
#31	John Fielden	Kla-Tencor	148
#32	Li Li	Apple	146
#33	Bruce J. Currivan	Broadcom	143
#34	Michael F. Deering	Oracle	142
#35	Ari Backholm	Seven Networks	141
#36	Kent K. Leung	Cisco	134
#37	James B. Eckenhoff	Alza	131
#37	Sunay Tripathi	Oracle	131
#39	Donald R. Scifres	Xerox	130
#40	Junwei Bao	Tokyo Electron Limited	129
#40	Donald F. Gordon	Gracenote	129
#42	Gary B. Bronner	IBM	128
#43	Glenn C. Scott	Cisco	127
#44	James M. Janky	Trimble Navigation Limited	126
#45	Jeremy Minshull	Maxygen	124
#46	Steven R. Hetzler	IBM	122
#47	Donald S. Gardner	Intel	119
#47	Stephen J. Blumenkranz	Intuitive Surgical	119
#49	Kireeti Kompella	Juniper Networks	116
#50	Shumin Zhai	Google	113

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