Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Milpitas, CA ranks #116 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 22,512 patents from 3,192 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Milpitas, CA include Intel, Synaptics Incorporated, Headway Technologies. That works out to 280.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 3,192 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Chiakang Sung Intel 194
2 Joseph Kurth Reynolds Synaptics Incorporated 171
3 Hironori Araki Headway Technologies 138
#4 Marco Fiorentino Hewlett Packard Enterprise 124
#5 Liang Wang Invensas 119
#6 Kapil Chhabra Disney 108
#7 Yin Qian Omnivision Technologies 106
#8 Jing-Jong Pan E-Tek Dynamics 103
#9 Raymond G. Beausoleil Hewlett Packard Enterprise 95
#10 Kevin Chan Broadcom 89
#11 Sandeep Gupta Broadcom 88
#12 Russell Wayne Gruhlke Qualcomm 86
#13 Peter Krulevitch University of California 85
#14 Amit Kumar BANSAL Applied Materials 84
#14 Xinhua Hong Nicira 84
#16 Donald A. Ice Finisar 83
#17 Ajoy K. Singh Apple 81
#18 Dejan S. Milojicic Hewlett Packard Enterprise 80
#18 Daisuke Shimizu Applied Materials 80
#20 Richard J. Huang AMD 78
#20 Irfan Rahim Intel 78
#22 Yasuhiro Matsui Finisar 77
#22 Arun Kumar Ford 77
#24 Gautam Bhanage Cisco 76
#24 Lane Desborough Bigfoot Biomedical 76
#24 Tingjun Xie Micron 76
#24 Zhenlei Shen Micron 76
#24 Yan Li Sandisk Enterprise Ip 76
#29 Kenichi Takano Headway Technologies 75
#30 Vinod Lakhani Micron 74
#31 Bryan Mazlish Bigfoot Biomedical 73
#32 Mark McDonald Intel 71
#33 Amrish Jayprakash Walke Acclarent 70
#33 Yang Yue BOE 70
#35 Yuhui Tang Headway Technologies 69
#36 Masakazu Okada Minolta Co. 68
#36 Hanhong Chen Intermolecular 68
#36 William G. En AMD 68
#36 Yixin Du Tencent America 68
#40 Hao Zhong Scaleflux 67
#41 Vibhu Jindal Applied Materials 65
#42 Wei Fang Asml Netherlands B.V. 64
#42 David Jefferson Intel 64
#42 Chunming Wang Silicon Storage Technology 64
#42 Yan Li BOE 64
#46 Gene Samson Target Therapeutics 63
#46 Jovana Nazor Codexis 63
#46 Sudhakar Muddu Cisco 63
#46 Sunil Gupta Cisco 63
#50 Akhilesh Kumar Intel 62

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