Top Inventors in Menlo Park, CA | Patent Leaderboard

Menlo Park, CA ranks #70 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 35,974 patents from 3,774 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Menlo Park, CA include Apple, Cadence Design Systems, Dfine. That works out to 1065.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 3,774 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Douglas B. Satzger	Apple	574
2	Steven Teig	Cadence Design Systems	446
3	John H. Shadduck	Dfine	267
#4	Bruce M. Schena	Intuitive Surgical	247
#4	Mark A. Horowitz	Rambus	247
#6	Thomas G. Cooper	Intuitive Surgical	241
#7	Brett W. Degner	Apple	230
#8	Michael Renne Ty Tan	Agilent Technologies	197
#9	Karl Guegler	Incyte Pharmaceuticals	196
#10	Michael D. Laufer	Asthmatx	178
#11	Jian Chen	—	156
#12	John Raff	Apple	144
#13	Manish Kothari	Qualcomm	141
#14	Edward L. Schwartz	Ricoh Company	137
#15	Aram Lindahl	Apple	135
#15	Caiming Xiong	Salesforce	135
#17	Jean-Marc Gady	Apple	126
#18	Andrew Tomkins	Google	124
#19	Jiaqi Yan	Snowflake	123
#20	Phillip M. Hobson	Apple	122
#21	James L. Fergason	Manchester R&D Limited Partnership	116
#22	Philip J. Kuekes	HP	112
#23	Nicola Diolaiti	Intuitive Surgical	111
#24	Richard C. Ruby	Agilent Technologies	110
#25	Christopher J. Spindt	Candescent Technologies	107
#25	Michael Gertner	Oraya Therapeutics	107
#27	Arthur van Hoff	Verizon	106
#28	Mathai Mammen	Theravance	104
#29	Oleg Rogynskyy	People.Ai	103
#30	Dan Andersen	Optimedica	102
#31	Noble M. Johnson	Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated	101
#32	Phillip A. Patten	Maxygen	100
#33	Takashi Okamoto	Fanuc	99
#33	Selim Aissi	Intel	99
#33	Daniel Roitman	Agilent Technologies	99
#33	Robert Jan Visser	Applied Materials	99
#37	William Guie Rivard	Duelight	98
#37	Kenneth J. Doniger	Abbott	98
#39	James E. Jervis	General Surgical Innovations	95
#40	Peter E. Hart	Ricoh Company	92
#41	Thomas R. Boussie	Symyx Technologies	91
#42	Pablo Garcia Kilroy	Sri International	86
#42	Jaime Vargas	Cardica	86
#42	Bernard A. Traversat	Oracle	86
#42	John W. Barrus	Ricoh Company	86
#46	Sawyer I. Cohen	Apple	85
#46	Peter John Cousins	Sunpower	85
#48	Mark E. Davis	Huffy	84
#49	Jeffrey S. Bonwick	Oracle	83
#49	Joseph Seeger	Invensense	83

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