Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Sept 30, 2025

Palo Alto, CA ranks #49 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 102,302 patents from 9,675 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Palo Alto, CA include HP, Meta, Motorola Mobility. That works out to 1491.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 9,501–9,550 of 9,675 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#7003 Neal D. Hoffacker 1
#7003 Stephen Freund HP 1
#7003 Myron A. Biegler 1
#7003 Kwang C. Chao 1
#7003 Sohil Maru Meta 1
#7003 Bradley Nemer Motorola Mobility 1
#7003 Subha Ramakrishna Gummadi Meta 1
#7003 John F. McCluskey 1
#7003 Ludmilla Levkova Nauto 1
#7003 David DiGiusto Systech 1
#7003 Bakul V. Herekar Oracle 1
#7003 Alex Talalai Guzik Technical Enterprises 1
#7003 Hossam Bahlool Immersion 1
#7003 Matthew Robinowitz Rosum 1
#7003 Tiffany Cai John Deere 1
#7003 Ranjani Gunupudi Broadcom 1
#7003 Sriram Devalapalli Broadcom 1
#7003 Jack K. West RTX (Raytheon) 1
#7003 Christopher J. Ploch Stanford University 1
#7003 Michael Frankmann Robert Bosch Gmbh 1
#7003 Farbound Tai Meta 1
#7003 Howard P. Demroff Lockheed Martin 1
#7003 Peter E. Forsman 1
#7003 Hector A Lopez HP 1
#7003 Joshuah Kapilivsky Tempus Labs 1
#7003 Etai Beck 1
#7003 Vicky W. Tsang AMD 1
#7003 Sean Hooten Hewlett Packard Enterprise 1
#7003 Buodo Li Data Visor 1
#7003 Freddy Chua Hewlett Packard Enterprise 1
#7003 Wilfrid B. Whalley 1
#7003 Thaison Nguyen Sap Se 1
#7003 Alex Frank Broadcom 1
#7003 Monica PhuongThao VAN Toyota 1
#7003 Ben Silbermann Pinterest 1
#7003 Larry Lehman Integrated Systems 1
#7003 Jana Sedivy Xerox 1
#7003 Hiranya S. Rao 1
#7003 Shashidhar Gundu Rao Siebel Systems 1
#7003 Jayaram Kallapalayam Radhakrishnan Hewlett Packard Enterprise 1
#7003 Fernando M. Placer Combustion Power Company 1
#7003 Eric Andrew Shrewsberry Meta 1
#7003 Elizabeth LYTLE Motorola 1
#7003 Steven W. Ducket Schlumberger Technology 1
#7003 Julian David Christian Richardson Google 1
#7003 Vishnuvardhan Janapati Acellent Technologies 1
#7003 Melvin Tsai Cisco 1
#7003 Steve Burns Oracle 1
#7003 Stevan D. Bradley Gte Automatic Electric Laboratories, Incorporated 1
#7003 Sai Chaitanya Nicira 1

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