Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Sunnyvale, CA ranks #12 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 119,956 patents from 14,302 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Sunnyvale, CA include Disney, Tencent America, Apple. That works out to 769.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 14,302 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Hui-Ling Lou Disney 669
2 Liang Zhao Tencent America 462
3 Mo-Han Fong Apple 456
#4 Jong-Kae Fwu Intel 349
#5 Amit Kumar Avnera 315
#6 Tao Zhao Intuitive Surgical 309
#7 Kevin Will Chen Apple 282
#8 Rohit U. Nabar Disney 276
#9 Ludovic Godet Applied Materials 244
#10 Wan Si Wan Apple 236
#11 Maj Isabelle Olsson Google 227
#12 Jong Jin Park Samsung 223
#13 Paul R. Besser AMD 212
#14 Yu Cao Asml Netherlands B.V. 211
#15 Raja Banerjea Disney 210
#16 Gokul Sridharan Qualcomm 208
#17 Dennis Hui Ericsson 204
#18 David Q. Larkin Reflexion Medical 194
#19 Purvi Shah Incyte Pharmaceuticals 193
#20 Takao Yonehara Canon 192
#21 Bharath Rangarajan AMD 190
#22 Shashank Merchant Roku 187
#23 Brian D. Hart Cisco 180
#24 Wei Jiang Tencent America 177
#25 Andy L. Lee Intel 175
#26 Shigeki Tanemura Headway Technologies 174
#27 Madhur Bobde Alpha And Omega Semiconductor 172
#28 Mark T. Ramsbey AMD 159
#29 Manasa Raghavan Apple 158
#30 Rui Cao Disney 154
#30 Yoshimichi Matsuoka Google 154
#32 Surya K. Goli Incyte Pharmaceuticals 153
#33 Michi E. Garrison Silk Road Medical 152
#34 John To Atheromed 150
#35 Stefan Rusu TSMC 149
#35 Christopher J. Hansen Broadcom 149
#37 Bo Zheng Applied Materials 143
#37 Xiaodong Zhang Huawei 143
#39 Raminda Udaya Madurawe Intel 142
#40 Ilya Daniel Rosenberg Sensel 140
#41 Colin M. Ely Apple 139
#42 Ivan Poupyrev Google 138
#42 Don Alden Pelikan Technologies 138
#44 Arjun Bharadwaj Qualcomm 137
#45 Xing Li Xerox 136
#45 Vage Oganesian Tessera 136
#47 Michael W. Stowell Lyten 135
#47 Vikas Gupta Amazon 135
#49 Rickie C. Lake Micron 134
#50 Shailender Chaudhry Oracle 133

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