Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Albany, CA ranks #950 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 133 patents from 86 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Albany, CA include Nokia, Lam Research, Mobitv. That works out to 6.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 86 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Klaus Doppler Nokia 10
2 Alexei Marakhtanov Lam Research 8
3 Kent Karlsson Mobitv 4
3 Jesse Rosen Zeltiq Aesthetics 4
3 Ping Zhang IBM 4
3 Peter Lauer Continental Teves Ag & Co. Ohg 4
#7 Chinwuba Ezekwe Robert Bosch Gmbh 3
#7 Jeonggi Seo Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated 3
#7 Cristiana Guiducci Dynavax Technologies 3
#7 David P. Olynick Arx Pax 3
#11 Peter Lincroft Tanium 2
#11 Giorgio Regni Scality, S.A. 2
#11 David Horsley Chirp Microsystems 2
#11 William Mickelson University of California 2
#11 Xianghui Zeng Samsung 2
#11 Leo Tenenblat Salesforce 2
#11 Isao Ogino Agency Of Industrial Science And Technology 2
#11 Brian Cantwell Disney 2
#11 Ellen H. Fiss Roche Molecular Systems 2
#11 Steven M. Kraft Sunpower 2
#11 Roman Shuba GE 2
#22 Michael K. O'Brien Disney 1
#22 Kendrick Kay University of California 1
#22 Alex Gaysinsky Google 1
#22 Martin Uecker Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Zur Föderung Der Wissenschaften E.V. 1
#22 Kathleen Marie Rai 1
#22 Dmitry Guschin Sangamo Biosciences 1
#22 Cass Patrick Costello PayPal 1
#22 Jian Luo Ngm Biopharmaceuticals 1
#22 Goichi Yoshidome Applied Materials 1
#22 Claudio Privitera Neuronetics 1
#22 Kumaraswamy Emayan Intermune 1
#22 Hexiang Deng University of California 1
#22 Stefano Cabrini University of California 1
#22 Anirban Dasgupta Yahoo Holdings 1
#22 Sricharan Bandhakavi Bio-Rad Laboratories 1
#22 William E. Allen Caterpillar 1
#22 Zhong-Yi Jin Zhejiang Jike Industry & Trade Co. 1
#22 Xiangdong Meng Bio-Rad Laboratories 1
#22 Tapan K. Das Chevron 1
#22 Thomas Arthur Aller Vision Crc Limited 1
#22 Yu-Ju G. Meng Genentech 1
#22 Alean Daniel Leapfrog Enterprises 1
#22 Aaron Olaf Louick Bauer IBM 1
#22 Robert M. Shear Dust Networks 1
#22 Kang Dai Amgen 1
#22 Taewon Han Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey 1
#22 Yihua Zhang Chevron 1
#22 Matt Oshry 24/7 Customer 1
#22 Carl A. Adams 3M 1

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