Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Newark, CA ranks #484 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 6,772 patents from 939 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Newark, CA include Medtronic, Micron, Seagate Technology. That works out to 142.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 939 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Di Wu Medtronic 299
2 Jung Sheng Hoei Micron 139
3 David S. Kuo Seagate Technology 115
#4 Jonas Korlach Pacific Biosciences Of California 103
#5 Matthew L. Miller Applied Materials 99
#6 Bomy Chen Silicon Storage Technology 92
#7 Sujeet Kumar Nanogram 91
#7 Robert Garabedian Boston Scientific Scimed 91
#9 Yao Li Alliance Fiber Optic Products 78
#10 Lan Yu IBM 73
#11 Michael Murphy NVIDIA 68
#12 Kevin C. Wong General Motors 56
#13 Vishal Gupta Mallinckrodt 55
#13 Jasper Jackson Neodyne Biosciences 55
#15 Mark A. Hadley Alien Technology 50
#16 William P. Freeman Nanosys 49
#17 Phillip R. Sommer Applied Materials 46
#18 David Liu Protagonist Therapeutics 45
#18 Noam Sapiens Kla-Tencor 45
#20 Teresa Ramos 44
#21 Srikumar Subramanian American Megatrends 42
#22 James Thomas O'Keeffe Sunlighten 41
#22 Sandeep Narla Tesla 41
#24 Robert Greenhouse Syntex (U.S.A.) 40
#24 Mathieu Foquet Pacific Biosciences Of California 40
#26 Hisashi Masui Lumileds 39
#27 Robert Cole AT&T 37
#27 Jon Brian Ehlen Meta 37
#29 Barnan Das Intel 36
#30 James A. Nelson Ryko Manufacturing 35
#30 Tongqing Wang Oplink Communications 35
#30 James Kao Acco Brands 35
#33 Pablo Acosta Vibrynt 33
#34 Daniel M. Gorman Schering 32
#35 Samantha Tan Lam Research 31
#35 Benjamin S. Bower Danisco Us 31
#35 Stanley K. Honey Sportvision 31
#35 Shaowei Li Xiamen University 31
#39 Chen Chen Neurocrine Biosciences 30
#39 Jennifer H. Gable Optiscan Biomedical 30
#39 Hao Zhang Globalfoundries 30
#39 William De Meulenaere Acco Brands 30
#43 Peter Ta Productive Application Solutions 29
#43 Lee S. Chong Gilead Sciences 29
#45 Lifeng Zhao Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co. 28
#45 John Samuel Barnett Meta 28
#45 Thomas Neff U-Systems 28
#48 Praveen Varma Penmetsa Zimeno 27
#48 Yingdong Luo Applied Materials 27
#48 Nan Shi Dialog Semiconductor 27

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