Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Los Gatos, CA ranks #69 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 36,505 patents from 2,986 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Los Gatos, CA include Apple, Disney, Microsoft. That works out to 1088.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 2,986 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Bartley K. Andre Apple 2,477
2 Pantas Sutardja Disney 366
3 Alexandros Tourapis Apple 320
#4 Haijing Hu Apple 305
#5 Jin Li Microsoft 235
#6 Ian Shaeffer Rambus 234
#7 Chris Kalaboukis Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 230
#8 Sudhir Srinivasa Disney 226
#9 Charles Abraham Broadcom 207
#9 Hongzhong Zheng Samsung 207
#11 William H. Radke Micron 190
#12 Ru-Ying Tong Headway Technologies 188
#13 Yuichi Taguchi Hitachi 183
#14 James M. Barton Tivo 182
#15 Cullen E. Bash HP 171
#16 Weijie Zhao Beijing Boe Optoelectronics Technology Co. 170
#17 Benjamin Stassen Cook Texas Instruments 169
#18 Manoocher Birang Applied Materials 167
#19 Aaron Yip Micron 149
#20 Steve Porter Hotelling Apple 146
#21 Jeffrey J. Terlizzi Apple 141
#22 Kochan Ju Headway Technologies 140
#23 Nicolas Pedro Lylyk Apple 137
#24 Thomas J. Edsall Cisco 136
#24 Koichi Yamada Intel 136
#26 Jarkko L. Kneckt Apple 134
#27 Arun G. Mathias Apple 127
#27 Prasenjit Sarkar IBM 127
#29 John B. Morrell Apple 119
#30 Chih-Wei Wu TSMC 116
#30 William Brad Matthews Innovium 116
#32 Daniel H. Gomez Intuitive Surgical 115
#33 David Michael Hugh Matthews Power Integrations 113
#34 Samir N. Hulyalkar Dolby Laboratories Licensing 112
#35 Hartmut H. Esslinger Disney 108
#35 Bernard J. New AMD 108
#37 Richard Williamson Apple 107
#38 Mehdi Vaez-Iravani Kla-Tencor 106
#39 Austin H. Lesea AMD 105
#40 Salvatore Talarico Apple 104
#41 Kohei Azumi Japan Display 101
#41 Robert J. Gove Texas Instruments 101
#43 Martin E. Johnson Apple 98
#44 Badri Amurthur Livanova Usa 97
#45 Willem P. C. Stemmer Codexis 96
#46 Erik van der Burg Atritech 95
#46 Guillermo J. Rozas Transmeta 95
#48 Brian J. Gally Qualcomm 94
#49 Laurence H. Cooke Novasolix 93
#50 Peter Michael Cazalet Google 92

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