Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Burlingame, CA ranks #325 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 372 patents from 174 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Burlingame, CA include Apple, Halliburton Energy Services, Neuropace. That works out to 11.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 174 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Wayne Carl Westerman Apple 23
2 Burkay Donderici Halliburton Energy Services 11
2 Benjamin D. Pless Neuropace 11
#4 Justin Jones Western Digital Technologies 10
#5 Aaron Sato Oncomed Pharmaceuticals 8
#5 Cynthia Y. Robinson Pernix Ireland Pain Limited 8
#5 Mark Rajan Malhotra Google 8
#8 Tad Armstrong Bloom Energy 7
#8 Scott Hansma Salesforce 7
#8 Vickie Hsiao-Wei Tsui Genentech 7
#11 Pawan Kapur Solexel 6
#11 Huifen Chen Genentech 6
#11 Andrea Mucignat Apple 6
#11 Chih-Tsung Huang Cisco 6
#15 Kristen Mae Hege Signal Pharmaceuticals 5
#15 Fernando Valle Danisco Us 5
#17 Sophie Le Guen Google 4
#17 James G. Taylor Gilead Sciences 4
#17 Kraig Anderson Empire Technology Development 4
#20 Sadi Khan Meta 3
#20 Veronica Milenkiy Ninthdecimal 3
#20 Wei-Jen Huang Cisco 3
#20 Arvind Raghavan AT&T 3
#20 Elizabeth M. Bacon Gilead Sciences 3
#20 David Frank Lish Google 3
#20 Peter M. Agboh Apple 3
#20 Julian Missig Apple 3
#20 Ana K. Rollins Igt 3
#20 Thomas E. Tarara Novartis Ag 3
#20 Jianpeng Mo Opswat 3
#20 Shawn Ryan Jeffery Groupon 3
#20 Allan D. Knies Intel 3
#33 Edward T. Schmidt Apple 2
#33 Usman Ghani Doordash 2
#33 Grant A. Davidson Dolby Laboratories Licensing 2
#33 Neelam S. Amin Danisco Us 2
#33 Kenneth P. Aron Abaxis 2
#33 Florence W. Ow Apple 2
#33 Henry Milner Conviva 2
#33 Sujai Chari Imagination Technologies Limited 2
#33 Minghua Sun Abbott 2
#33 Marcin Sikora Thermo Fisher 2
#33 Sridhar Machiraju Sprint Communications 2
#33 Brandon Heath Brown Gilead Sciences 2
#33 Sundaramoorthi Swaminathan Gilead Sciences 2
#33 Roberto Crea Creagri 2
#33 Curt Bererton Ailive 2
#33 Kieron E. Wesson Edison Pharmaceuticals 2
#33 Vladimir Serebryany Intermune 2
#33 Matthew Frederick Reyes 2

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