Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Woodside, CA ranks #357 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 8,763 patents from 553 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Woodside, CA include Apple, Medtronic, Health Hero Network. That works out to 1650.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 553 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Christopher J. Stringer Apple 1,898
2 Hanson S. Gifford, III Medtronic 428
3 Stephen J. Brown Health Hero Network 311
#4 Jared L. Zerbe Rambus 258
#5 Kevin Lynch Apple 139
#6 Juan R. Loaiza Oracle 132
#7 Henry Packard Moreton NVIDIA 130
#8 Arnon Rosenthal Alector 120
#9 Benjamin J. Pope Apple 92
#10 Rodney C. Perkins Earlens 88
#11 John B. Simpson Avinger 84
#12 Amir Abolfathi Sonitus Medical 83
#12 Brian R. Land Apple 83
#14 John O. Ryan Macrovision 77
#15 Friedrich B. Prinz Stanford University 72
#16 Nils Lonberg Bristol-Myers Squibb 67
#16 Christopher M. Green Apple 67
#18 Ian Wright Ailive 66
#18 John F. Krumme Beta Phase 66
#18 Peter Muller Unknown 66
#21 Joseph S. Eckerle Sri International 62
#21 Oliver Friedrichs Cisco 62
#23 Bruce Fairman Sony 61
#23 Elliott Grant Yottamark 61
#25 Joshua H. Shaffer Apple 60
#26 Bruce Tognazzini Oracle 57
#27 Amit Singh Juniper Networks 54
#28 William Parsons Newhall, Jr. NVIDIA 52
#29 Roger J. Bamford Oracle 51
#30 K. Angela Macfarlane Forsight Vision4 50
#31 Peter J. Bannon Tesla 46
#31 Jana van Greunen Itron Networked Solutions 46
#31 Gerald R. Crabtree Harvard University 46
#31 Nicole G. Goldstein Invently Automotive 46
#31 Robert Turcott Pacesetter 46
#31 Roland Schemers Salesforce 46
#37 Lee A. Flippin Fibrogen 45
#37 Paul Glendenning Micron 45
#37 Peteris K. Augenbergs Apple 45
#37 Anatoliy V. Tsyrganovich Zilog 45
#37 Martin Eberhard Tiveni Mergeco 45
#42 Daniel Cook Lyten 44
#43 Patrick D. Lincoln Sri International 43
#44 Van L. Jacobson Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated 42
#45 Karel Vanheusden Cabot 41
#45 John Birkner Andapt 41
#45 Jeffrey Linnell X Development 41
#48 Neil Young Lionel 38
#48 George A. Pavlath Litton Systems 38
#50 Neal Margulis Digital Display Innovations 37

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