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 Intel, Google, Cognifisense. That works out to 761.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 14,251–14,300 of 14,302 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#10174 Michelle G. Gong Intel 1
#10174 Robert Lou Google 1
#10174 Tassilo Baeurele Cognifisense 1
#10174 Kristen Kam Telenav 1
#10174 Michael Bezman Synopsys 1
#10174 Sukjae Cho Lattice Semiconductor 1
#10174 James C. Donahue Adobe 1
#10174 Yizhi Zhao Google 1
#10174 Stephen Van Sickle 1
#10174 Anudhar Emani Netapp 1
#10174 Pengchong Xiong Nec 1
#10174 Gudrun Vogentanz Danisco Us 1
#10174 Peirong Feng Cisco 1
#10174 Peter Ostrin Silicon Graphics 1
#10174 Dikang Gu Meta 1
#10174 Jayesh Punjaram Patil AMD 1
#10174 Durga Deep Tirunagari Oracle 1
#10174 Douglas S. Russum Lockheed Martin 1
#10174 Varsha Chandrashekhar Hedau University Of Illinois 1
#10174 Mohiuddin Abdul Qader Ebay 1
#10174 Haomin Wu Vivante 1
#10174 Nitzan Koppel Novozymes A/S 1
#10174 Frederic Bossy NVIDIA 1
#10174 Rich Henderson Edan Instruments 1
#10174 Sara Anne Barton Sinclair Brody Google 1
#10174 Steven Ellis Rolls Oracle 1
#10174 Singla Anurag HP 1
#10174 Vijay Chandramohan Google 1
#10174 Daniel Cunningham RTX (Raytheon) 1
#10174 Peter Guastaferro RTX (Raytheon) 1
#10174 Will Chin Microsoft 1
#10174 Tamara Baia Samsung 1
#10174 Pierre Fontarensky Applied Materials 1
#10174 Xinyue Chen Applied Materials 1
#10174 Sourav Chakrobroty 1
#10174 Gracia Wang Cisco 1
#10174 Naresh Kumar Chinnathambi Kailasam 1
#10174 Cynthia Chuang University of California 1
#10174 Ramanathan S. Padinjarel Netapp 1
#10174 Hartawan Laksmono Stanford University 1
#10174 Arun Dobriyal IBM 1
#10174 Jonathan K. Rippy Netapp 1
#10174 Frederick Alexander Ginnebaugh 1
#10174 Abhinav Swami Walmart Apollo 1
#10174 Clayton Hires Outset Medical 1
#10174 Yirong Hu Western Digital (Fremont) 1
#10174 Chandrasekaran Sakthivel Broadcom 1
#10174 Chandana Bellam Abbott 1
#10174 Steven B. Lester Bridgelux 1
#10174 Stuart George Gill Google 1

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