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

Showing 14,301–14,302 of 14,302 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#10174 Bethany J. Wang Microsoft 1
#10174 Qiannan Yin Microsoft 1

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