Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Phoenix, AZ ranks #72 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 34,375 patents from 6,660 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Phoenix, AZ include Karsten Manufacturing, Applied Materials, The Procter & Gamble. That works out to 21.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 6,660 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Xiaojian Chen Karsten Manufacturing 403
2 Ajay Kumar Applied Materials 385
3 John A. Solheim Karsten Manufacturing 281
#4 Anthony D. Serrano Karsten Manufacturing 250
#5 Toan Trinh The Procter & Gamble 231
#6 Martin R. Jertson Karsten Manufacturing 221
#7 Roy Edward McAlister Mcalister Technologies 183
#8 Michael H. Slayton Guided Therapy Systems 173
#9 Ronald Patrick Huemoeller Amkor Technology 164
#10 Thomas J. Kolze Broadcom 160
#11 Michael Meyer Ericsson 159
#12 Marty R. Jertson Karsten Manufacturing 157
#13 Peter G. Barthe Guided Therapy Systems 156
#14 Robert L. Sankman Intel 153
#15 Kai Liu Realtek Semiconductor 137
#16 Lawrence T. Clark Intel 132
#17 Eric James Shero Asm Ip Holding B.V. 129
#18 Eric V. Cole 126
#19 Henning Braunisch Intel 119
#20 Alexander Wayne Hietala Qorvo Us 117
#21 Fred Bishop American Express 115
#22 Erik M. Henrikson Karsten Manufacturing 111
#23 Tarek El Dokor Edge 3 Technologies 107
#24 Caleb S. Kroloff Parsons Xtreme Golf 102
#25 Evan K. Fram D.R. Systems 101
#26 Jacob T. Clarke Karsten Manufacturing 100
#27 Mark A. Schmisseur Intel 97
#28 Mark C. Morris Honeywell 95
#28 Robert W. Ellis Sandisk Technologies 95
#30 Lakshminarayan Viswanathan Nxp Usa 91
#31 Matthew Wade Puckett Honeywell 86
#32 Shankar Swaminathan Lam Research 85
#33 Chandrashekhar P. Pathak University Of Texas System 84
#33 Shuo-Hsiu Hsu 84
#35 John M. Pigott Freeescale Semiconductor 83
#36 Yusheng LIN onsemi 78
#37 Siamak Delshadpour Nxp B.V. 76
#38 Stuart Lindsay Arizona Board Of Regents For And On Behalf Of Arizona State University 74
#39 Michael N. Kozicki Axon Technologies 73
#39 Paul D. Wood Karsten Manufacturing 73
#41 Sukianto Rusli Amkor Technology 69
#42 Wayne Johnson Tokyo Electron Limited 68
#43 Ioan Cosmescu I.C. Medical 67
#44 Patrice M. Parris Freeescale Semiconductor 65
#44 Daniel R. Tayloe Motorola 65
#44 Brent D. Larson Honeywell 65
#47 Mathew J. Manusharow Intel 64
#48 Brett Curtin Craftmade International 63
#48 Derek L. Davis Intel 63
#50 Matthew W. Simone Karsten Manufacturing 60

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