Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Sept 30, 2025

Sunnyvale, CA ranks #36 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 118,568 patents from 14,302 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Sunnyvale, CA include Actel, Qualcomm, Corning Research & Development. That works out to 761.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 13,101–13,150 of 14,302 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#10174 Michael Weber-Grafau 1
#10174 Kuthanur R. Dharmarajan Actel 1
#10174 Joan G. Ballog 1
#10174 Sarin MATHEN Qualcomm 1
#10174 Sarah L. Nunke 1
#10174 Pushkar Upadhyay Corning Research & Development 1
#10174 Mali SHEN 1
#10174 Qiaojing Yan Google 1
#10174 Apurva Anil Godghase Charter Communications Operating 1
#10174 Douglas E. Dority Unknown 1
#10174 Jon-won Lee Ovonyx 1
#10174 Mengcheng Guo University Of Alabama 1
#10174 Shunfei CHEN Netflix 1
#10174 John S. Webb Applied Materials 1
#10174 Franklin J. Malloy Synopsys 1
#10174 Zheng Nie Ericsson 1
#10174 Teri L. Archer Signal Sciences 1
#10174 Stephen Jaeger NASA 1
#10174 Mitchell I. Jerome Oracle 1
#10174 James H. Shibley National Semiconductor 1
#10174 Ting-Chuck Chiang Oracle 1
#10174 Ganesh Subramanian Iyer Amazon 1
#10174 Yuegin Danny Lin Synopsys 1
#10174 Hamman Elabd Loral Fairchild 1
#10174 Gayle M. Tyson Xerox 1
#10174 George D. Calvert Crystal Technology 1
#10174 John Sahiavo 1
#10174 Leland M. Ho 1
#10174 Hadar DOR Samsung 1
#10174 Fanfan He Hewlett Packard Enterprise 1
#10174 Kirk W. Moffitt Kaiser Aerospace & Electronics 1
#10174 S. Barbar Raza Cypress Semiconductor 1
#10174 Eliahu Lauris Kasenna 1
#10174 Jamie E. Kardontchik International Microelectronic Products 1
#10174 Mehmet Burak Akgun Oath 1
#10174 James G. DeWitt 1
#10174 Christopher J. Duffy 1
#10174 Donald Watenpaugh NASA 1
#10174 David W. Hedges Vitesse Semiconductor 1
#10174 Hugh E. Frohbach Samsung 1
#10174 Donald Vincent Husa Meta 1
#10174 Orestes N. Stavroudis US Air Force 1
#10174 Edward Oswalt Franklin Electronic Publishers, Incorporated 1
#10174 Joel M. Rosado NASA 1
#10174 Ronald Blachman Crystal Technology 1
#10174 Garett Ogata 1
#10174 Yoram Arnon Hewlett-Packard Indigo B.V. 1
#10174 Karthikeyan M. Excalibur Ip 1
#10174 John Pederzolli Excalibur Ip 1
#10174 Dwight H. Cooper 1

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