Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Stanford, CA ranks #368 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 8,582 patents from 1,454 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Stanford, CA include Caltech, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Stanford University. That works out to 405.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,454 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Stephen R. Quake Caltech 195
2 Ken Takeuchi Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 149
3 Irving L. Weissman Stanford University 146
#4 Timothy David Kentley-Klay Zoox 126
#5 Gordon S. Kino Stanford University 118
#5 Zhenan Bao Stanford University 118
#7 Karl Deisseroth Stanford University 114
#8 Harvey E. Cline GE 101
#9 Shanhui Fan Stanford University 91
#10 Richard N. Zare Stanford University 86
#11 Olav Solgaard Stanford University 84
#11 Arogyaswami Paulraj Intel 84
#13 John M. Pauly Stanford University 82
#14 Herbert J. Shaw Stanford University 80
#15 Hon-Sum Philip Wong IBM 77
#16 Calvin F. Quate Xerox 70
#17 Byoung Y. Kim Stanford University 66
#18 Nahuel Elias Battaglia Zoox 62
#19 Robert L. Byer Stanford University 58
#20 Jacob A. Marks Medos International Sarl 57
#21 Michael S. Bernstein Safety 1St 52
#22 Lubert Stryer Affymetrix 51
#23 Michael Snyder Made In Space 48
#24 Geoffrey C. Gurtner Stanford University 47
#25 Yan Xia Schering 44
#25 James S. Harris, Jr. Stanford University 44
#27 Martin M. Fejer Stanford University 43
#27 Ronald Dean Watkins GE 43
#29 Jennifer R. Cochran Stanford University 41
#30 Emi Ishida AMD 40
#30 John R. Adler Varian Medical Systems 40
#32 Stanley N. Cohen Stanford University 39
#32 Risto Miikkulainen Cognizant Technology Solutions U.S. 39
#34 Bernd Girod Stanford University 38
#35 Samuel Strober Stanford University 37
#35 Michael D. Dake Revance Therapeutics 37
#35 Navin Chaddha Microsoft 37
#38 Lawrence Steinman Stanford University 36
#38 Eric T. Kool Stanford University 36
#40 Scott L. Delp Cala Health 35
#40 David Leigh Donoho Bigfix 35
#40 Shreyas S. Vasanawala Stanford University 35
#43 Chien-Meen Hwang AMD 34
#43 Philip A. Beachy Johns Hopkins University School Of Medicine 34
#45 Paul J. Wang 3M 33
#45 Hailiang Wang Xiamen Tianma Micro-Electronics Co. 33
#47 Mark M. Davis Stanford University 31
#47 Onur Can Akkaya Microsoft 31
#47 Marco Pavone Volkswagen 31
#47 Hang-woo Lee Samsung 31

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