Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

San Ramon, CA ranks #142 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 19,389 patents from 2,140 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in San Ramon, CA include Intel, Disney, Verizon. That works out to 229.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 2,140 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Qinghua Li Intel 556
2 Liwen Chu Disney 432
3 Lalit R. Kotecha Verizon 318
#4 Michael A. Leabman Energous 274
#5 Niloy Mukherjee Intel 243
#6 Minyoung Park Intel 229
#7 Hye Kyung Cho Timken Chevron 159
#8 Ye Huang Verizon 131
#9 Vivek Sharma Monsanto Technology 128
#10 Kameran Azadet Intel 126
#11 Tong Sun Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 123
#12 James Fan AT&T 118
#13 Bishwarup Mondal Apple 116
#14 Patricia R. Chang Verizon 111
#15 Deepak Jain Devicefidelity 103
#16 Ananthan Subramanian Netapp 102
#17 Huai-Yuan Tseng Sandisk Technologies 101
#18 Alexander E. Kuperman Chevron 99
#19 Chong H. Lee Intel 97
#20 Shaoping Li Western Digital (Fremont) 90
#21 Feng Liu Western Digital (Fremont) 87
#22 Alicia Y. Moore Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 86
#23 Jeffrey N. Roe Roche Diagnostics Operations 82
#24 Xidong Wu AT&T 79
#24 Russell Hudyma Navitar Industries 79
#24 Chang Wan Ha Micron 79
#27 Mark Ish Micron 78
#27 Darrell L. Suen Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 78
#29 Dinesh Maheshwari Cypress Semiconductor 75
#30 Alpesh Patel Cisco 74
#31 Vikram B. Yerrabommanahalli Apple 72
#31 Weihong Qiu Intersil Americas 72
#31 Vineet Marwah Oracle 72
#31 Kelvin Chan Applied Materials 72
#35 Ellis Cha Sae Magnetics (H.K.) 71
#36 Jay J. Lee Verizon 69
#37 Vishwanath Ramamurthi Verizon 68
#38 Thomas R. Hoffend Xerox 63
#39 Subasingha Shaminda Subasingha Zoox 62
#39 Seungpil Lee Sandisk Technologies 62
#39 Philip D. Barberi Meyer Intellectual Properties 62
#42 Satyapal P. Reddy Open Text 60
#43 Yasantha Rajakarunanayake Broadcom 58
#44 Ravishankar Ravindran Futurewei Technologies 57
#44 Wai-Yee Leung Biotium 57
#44 Fan Ho Micron 57
#47 Michael Thomas Navitar Industries 56
#47 Sean S. Kang Applied Materials 56
#49 Armstrong Soo AT&T 55
#50 Cheng Wang Intel 54

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