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 ITRI, Net Optics, Broadcom. That works out to 1491.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 9,601–9,650 of 9,675 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#7003 Bingan Lu ITRI 1
#7003 Saiying Xie Net Optics 1
#7003 Paul Anton Richardson Gardner 1
#7003 Andrew Biggadike Broadcom 1
#7003 Suzanne Tharin Children'S Medical Center 1
#7003 Elizabeth Ji-Eun Song 1
#7003 David Chun Hsiao Kao Solar 1
#7003 Christopher D. Erbach Microsoft 1
#7003 Marcell Vazquez-Chanlatte Nissan North America 1
#7003 Andrew Davidson 1
#7003 Jinsong LIAO Innopeak Technology 1
#7003 Mitch Jansen Luminit 1
#7003 Martha Sandy Dade Behring Marburg Gmbh 1
#7003 Philip T. Sheng 1
#7003 Ken M. Rudin 1
#7003 Jiangwen Majeti Amgen 1
#7003 Saachi Shah Typeface 1
#7003 Kunal Goswami Plume Design 1
#7003 Christopher Ray Myers HP 1
#7003 Rennan Garrett Broussard Microsoft 1
#7003 Norton Adam Tokyo Electron Limited 1
#7003 Krzysztof Barczynski Atlassian Pty 1
#7003 Keith Wycoff 1
#7003 R. Paul Levine Unknown 1
#7003 Peter H. van Konyenburg Raychem Limited 1
#7003 Andre Da Fonte Lopes Da Silva HP 1
#7003 Tryg A. Ager IBM 1
#7003 Hongchen Liu Ping An Technology (Shenzhen) Co. 1
#7003 Andreas Mau Sap Ag 1
#7003 Steven Heintz Logitech Europe S.A. 1
#7003 Ken Ralph 1
#7003 Ana Paula Quirino Simoes Intel 1
#7003 John Chia-Yang Lin Rinat Neuroscience 1
#7003 Dominique Yahyavi Ideo Lp 1
#7003 Howard R. Brownell Sandoz Ag 1
#7003 Nadav A. Zimak Yahoo Holdings 1
#7003 Clifford H. Greenman Raynet 1
#7003 Brian CARLSEN Ciitizen 1
#7003 Lorraine Comanor Chiron 1
#7003 Joyce Fong Avaya 1
#7003 MARAT NERSISYAN HP 1
#7003 Daniel Virabott Phang Google 1
#7003 Arnold J. Forman Stanford University 1
#7003 Marcel M. Daadi Stanford University 1
#7003 Aniket Deole Broadcom 1
#7003 Robert J. Perflmutter Resonex Holding 1
#7003 Jeff Piman Rapipong Meta 1
#7003 Ted Chitai Chu University Of Texas System 1
#7003 Ashot ASLANYAN Broadcom 1
#7003 Hiu Tung Cheung Stanford University 1

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