Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Atherton, CA ranks #489 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 254 patents from 100 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Atherton, CA include Heartflow, Amazon, Apple. That works out to 35.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 100 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Charles A. Taylor Heartflow 17
1 Anurag Windlass Gupta Amazon 17
3 Keng Lim Apple 13
#4 Mojan Goshayeshgar Kyphon Sàrl 10
#5 James F. Dempsey Viewray Technologies 6
#5 Vahid Saadat Usgi Medical 6
#5 Lambertus Hesselink Western Digital Technologies 6
#5 George Samachisa 6
#9 Vahid Saadat Voyage Medical 5
#9 William M. Facteau Acclarent 5
#9 Bryan D. O'Connor Meta 5
#9 Helmy A. Eltoukhy Guardant Health 5
#9 Thierry Nivaggioli AbbVie 5
#9 Quang Tran Covidien Lp 5
#9 Peter Sinclair Truedata Systems 5
#16 Herbert R. Kaewert Stored Energy Systems, A Limited Liability 4
#16 Ardavan Maleki Tehrani Assia Spe 4
#16 Jeffrey C. Hawkins Numenta 4
#16 Kramadhati V. Ravi Intel 4
#16 Dennis S. Fernandez Unknown 4
#16 Paul G. Yock Cardiovascular Imaging Systems 4
#22 Gary M. Lauder Ictv 3
#22 Mansour Salame 8X8 3
#22 Anatoli B. Stein Guzik Technical Enterprises 3
#22 Paul Badawi Sight Sciences 3
#22 Ed Frank Broadcom 3
#22 Daniel Dobson Ailive 3
#22 John M. Cioffi Adaptive Spectrum And Signal Alignment, Incorporated 3
#22 Andrew W. Kittler Theatro Labs 3
#22 Barbara Paldus Finesse Solutions 3
#31 Derek Collison Pivotal Software 2
#31 Dhanurjay A.S. Patil Ebay 2
#31 Michael Judd Richter Meta 2
#31 Rene Meyer Unity Semiconductor 2
#31 Antonia Teresita Ancheta Maninang 2
#31 Byoungsok Jung Grail 2
#31 Martha J. Morrell Neuropace 2
#31 Steven Ryutaro Takayama Logitech Europe S.A. 2
#31 AmirAli TALASAZ Guardant Health 2
#31 N. Parker Willis Ebr Systems 2
#31 Michael John Beesley Juniper Networks 2
#31 Klaus J. Dahl Raychem Limited 2
#31 Arthur W. Zafiropoulo Ultratech 2
#31 Raymond Stata Yahoo Holdings 2
#31 Sara Harrington Microsoft 2
#31 David Tobin Palantir Technologies 2
#31 Stephen A. Schendel Osteomed 2
#48 Catherine P. Koshland University of California 1
#48 Ignatius B. Tjandrasuwita NVIDIA 1
#48 William G. Friedman Netflow Logic 1

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