Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Alamo, CA ranks #1,792 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 68 patents from 41 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Alamo, CA include Qualcomm, Abl Ip Holding, Broadcom. That works out to 4.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–41 of 41 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Kirk Allan Burroughs Qualcomm 7
2 Peter Y. Y. Ngai Abl Ip Holding 5
3 Michael Nelson Broadcom 4
#4 Richard Fishman Igt 3
#4 Kostadin Dimitrov Yanev Activbody 3
#6 Locke D. Berkebile Apollo Education Group 2
#6 Robert R. Mehranfar Pemstar 2
#6 Ali Sajassi Cisco 2
#6 Thomas Lawrence Harvill Process Metrix 2
#6 Krishniah Parimi Chevron 2
#6 Peter G. Robinson Abbott 2
#6 Gabriel Jakobson Verizon 2
#6 Michael Bonadio Workday 2
#6 Clayton G. Gardner Freal! Foods 2
#6 Xuemei Yang Bio-Rad Laboratories 2
#16 Yibo Zhu Unknown 1
#16 Derek John WATSON Riverbed Technology 1
#16 Jonathan Chan Malwarebytes 1
#16 Tim Buckley Iridex 1
#16 Eric Farnholtz Brocade Communications Systems 1
#16 Christine N. RITTER Carl Zeiss Meditec Ag 1
#16 Susanna Lee Peachy 1
#16 Timothy D. Buckley Iridex 1
#16 Gary J. Hooper Western Digital Technologies 1
#16 Douglas Ostler Veeva Systems 1
#16 Robert Baptiste Unknown 1
#16 Harrold J. Rust, III Enovix 1
#16 Amritpal Singh Bath Cisco 1
#16 Reid M. Rubsamen Aradigm 1
#16 Michael Luis Cerda Meta 1
#16 Mark Reiten Silicon Storage Technology 1
#16 Azhar Khan Google 1
#16 Christopher A. Wildman Cisco 1
#16 Harold J. Rust, III Enovix 1
#16 Michael Waite Zynga 1
#16 Naganand Murty Embrace Co. 1
#16 Bryan Kelly Proxense 1
#16 Petros Dermetzis Workday 1
#16 Marina E. Giverts Sybase 1
#16 David Field Smurthwaite 1
#16 Ali Sarfaraz Broadcom 1

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