Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Mountain View, CA ranks #21 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 90,836 patents from 11,022 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Mountain View, CA include Comcast, Medtronic, Incyte Pharmaceuticals. That works out to 1102.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 11,022 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Wei Xiong Comcast 307
2 Mark Deem Medtronic 279
3 Olga Bandman Incyte Pharmaceuticals 267
#4 John Hayes Pure Storage 252
#5 David A. Fattal Leia 242
#6 Martin F. Schubert Micron 241
#7 Mark Siminoff Amazon 202
#8 Jason Redgrave Tabula 193
#9 Peter P. Tong Vesture 192
#10 Takayuki Shimizu Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha 189
#11 Barin Geoffry Haskell AT&T 188
#12 Michael R. Krames Philips Lumileds Lighting Company 184
#13 Thomas Vogelsang Rambus 165
#13 Wayne V. Sorin Hewlett Packard Enterprise 165
#15 Tao Ma BOE 162
#16 Alexandre M. Bratkovski HP 161
#17 Christopher J. Petti Sandisk Technologies 157
#18 Nathaniel Fairfield Google 156
#19 Yeong-Taeg Kim Samsung 148
#20 Markus Lutz Robert Bosch Gmbh 145
#21 John Benjamin Filson Apple 142
#21 David K. Fork Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated 142
#23 Murtaza A. Shikari Apple 139
#24 Shahram Izadi Microsoft 136
#25 Prabha N. Ibrahim Plexxikon 134
#26 Carlos Horacio Aldana Qualcomm 133
#27 Ali S. Khayrallah Ericsson 132
#28 Rajesh Sundaram Intel 131
#28 Christopher Daryl Soli Apple 131
#28 Paul W. Mohr Intuitive Surgical 131
#28 Gaurav Sharma Xerox 131
#32 Eric Peeters Xerox 129
#33 YooJung Ahn Google 128
#34 Kentaro Oguchi Toyota 127
#35 Christopher G. Malone HP 118
#35 Elbert E. Huang IBM 118
#37 Rajendra Tushar Moorti Broadcom 117
#38 Ankur Jain Google 115
#39 Ying Yu Tai Micron 113
#39 Michael D. Hutton Intel 113
#41 Christiaan A. Hartman Apple 112
#42 Christopher Paul Urmson Google 111
#42 Adam Feder Duelight 111
#44 Kevin G. Donohoe Micron 110
#45 Armin R. Volkel Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated 109
#46 Brian D. Hoffman Intuitive Surgical 108
#47 Sanjay Ghemawat Google 107
#47 David S. Mintz Auris Health 107
#49 Andrew J. Walker Spin Memory 105
#50 Donald James Lindsay Blackberry Limited 104

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