Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Berkeley, CA ranks #102 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 1,003 patents from 512 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Berkeley, CA include Qualcomm, Google, Abbott. That works out to 8.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 512 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Michael G. Luby Qualcomm 26
2 Shelten Gee Jao Yuen Google 18
3 James Park Google 17
#4 Benjamin J. Feldman Abbott 14
#5 John Nicholas Gross John Nicholas And Kristin Gross Trust 13
#5 Kunwoo Lee LG 13
#7 Kartik Lamba Inc Square, Co. 12
#7 Giovanni Gozzini Apple 12
#9 Martin A. Turon Google 11
#9 Eric A. Hudson Lam Research 11
#11 Lorenz Christoph Minder Qualcomm 10
#11 Ulrich Mueller Basf Se 10
#13 Sean Van Der Linden Yellowpages.Com 9
#14 Robert T. Knight The Nielsen Company (Us) 8
#14 Hans F. Valencia Boston Scientific Scimed 8
#16 Lorenzo Vicisano Qualcomm 7
#17 John Heck Intel 6
#17 Stephen Joseph DiVerdi Adobe 6
#17 Steven McCanne Riverbed Technology 6
#17 Sayantan Choudhury Nokia Technologies Oy 6
#17 John Fini Ayar Labs 6
#17 Owen Daniel Otto Google 6
#17 Phillip B. Messersmith Northwestern University 6
#24 Jacob J. Plattner Anacor Pharmaceuticals 5
#24 Jason Taylor Meta 5
#24 Hye Jin Choi Kinestral Technologies 5
#24 Paul J. Hung Emd Millipore 5
#24 Robert J. Stone Skorpios Technologies 5
#24 Paul Bunning Meyer Sound Laboratories, Incorporated 5
#24 Noah Balmer Vitec Holdings Italia Srl 5
#31 Steven J. Visco Polyplus Battery 4
#31 Michael Plitkins Google 4
#31 Wilson Harron Gracenote 4
#31 Duncan Brown Sirna Therapeutics 4
#31 Zachary S. Judkins Sunpower 4
#31 David Alumbaugh Schlumberger Technology 4
#31 Ian Lynn Verizon 4
#31 Jesse Collins Salesforce 4
#31 Junjie Liu Ambrx 4
#31 Yevgeniy S. Nimon Polyplus Battery 4
#31 Paul A. Roethle Gilead Sciences 4
#31 Michael Dewey Salesforce 4
#31 Jaron Lanier Microsoft 4
#31 Dan M. Granoff Children'S Hospital & Research Center At Oakland 4
#31 Jay D. Keasling University of California 4
#31 Chen Sun Ayar Labs 4
#31 Jian Jin The Charles Machine Works 4
#31 Timothy Learmonth Trutag Technologies 4
#49 Otto N. Williams Steelcase Development 3
#49 Yoav Gal Adidas Ag 3

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