Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Alameda, CA ranks #436 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 280 patents from 136 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Alameda, CA include Kitty Hawk, AbbVie, Juniper Networks. That works out to 3.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 136 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Damon Vander Lind Kitty Hawk 12
2 Robert A. Stull AbbVie 11
3 Michael P. Fennell 9
3 James Murphy Juniper Networks 9
#5 Zenghe Liu Abbott 8
#5 Philip J. Lee Emd Millipore 8
#5 Mark S. Vinton Dolby Laboratories Licensing 8
#8 Alan J. Seefeldt Dolby Laboratories Licensing 6
#8 Theodore W. Rogers Intuitive Surgical 6
#10 Wesley Scott Harper Abbott 5
#10 Steven G. King Landscape Structures 5
#12 Timothy Stowe Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated 4
#12 William Bridge Oracle 4
#12 Joseph Anakata Location Labs 4
#12 Joseph Davidchik Intuit 4
#12 Bingliang Chen Ono Pharmaceutical Co. 4
#12 David Louis Shelton Rinat Neuroscience 4
#12 Damon Vander Lind 4
#19 Bradley Rhodes Ricoh Company 3
#19 Alexander Alexeev Georgia Tech Research 3
#19 Scott C. Benson Applied Biosystems 3
#19 Glenn Berman Abbott 3
#19 Heather Dawn Yalin Wal-Mart Stores 3
#19 Joshua Willard Ferguson Tesla 3
#19 Richard J. Rikoski Hadal 3
#19 Ryan Hagey Visa 3
#19 William Don Harriman Crystal Bioscience 3
#19 John T. Felts Sio2 Medical Products 3
#19 Prasad Peddada Salesforce 3
#30 Russell Petersen Elemental Led 2
#30 Richard Elliott Jenkins Saildrone 2
#30 Roger Schwenke Meyer Sound Laboratories, Incorporated 2
#30 Kim M. Gutierrez Cellco Partnership 2
#30 Roberto Attias Synopsys 2
#30 Behrad Aria Abbott 2
#30 Christopher Michael Lew Chevron 2
#30 Xiaoliang Wang Nanjing University 2
#30 Alexander Chan Vital Connect 2
#30 Glen Sanford Tivo 2
#30 Guillaume A. Carbonneau Apple 2
#30 Andreas Stolcke Microsoft 2
#30 Satoru Miura Seiko Epson 2
#30 Christopher A. Robinette Nike 2
#30 Alexander Seitz Schuler Pressen Gmbh 2
#30 Jonathan Fern Abbott 2
#30 Indranil De Pdf Solutions 2
#30 James Horne Centric Software 2
#30 Joe Delone Venters Google 2
#30 Daniel Benoit Stmicroelectronics (Crolles 2) Sas 2
#30 Travis Wilson Microsoft 2

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