Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Danville, CA ranks #297 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 401 patents from 209 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Danville, CA include Sandisk Technologies, Micron, Crossbar. That works out to 9.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 209 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 George Matamis Sandisk Technologies 23
2 Vladimir Odnoblyudov Micron 18
3 Hagop Nazarian Crossbar 11
#4 Mehdi Asnaashari Micron 8
#5 Alex Rankov Emc 7
#6 David A. Weber AbbVie 6
#6 Maxim Gubin Google 6
#6 Steven R. Rados Verizon 6
#9 David V. Schaffer University of California 5
#9 Christopher R. Uhlik Arraycomm 5
#9 Arthur A. Bertolero Endoscopic Technologies 5
#9 Ning Ge HP 5
#13 Renaldi Winoto Disney 4
#13 Robert C. Chang 4
#13 Peter Wagner Zyomyx 4
#13 David R. Scheuing The Clorox 4
#17 Tamer Ibrahim Atricure 3
#17 David Jack Ovadia Microsoft 3
#17 Emmanuel Laffon de Mazieres Amazon 3
#17 Chris S. Neisinger Verizon 3
#17 Petro Estakhri Lexar Media 3
#17 John Yue Jun Jiang Roamware 3
#17 Raymond P. Mariella, Jr. Lawrence Livermore National Security 3
#17 Michael D. McJimsey Volterra Semiconductor 3
#17 Anup K. Singh Sandia 3
#17 Neil McLellan A-Sat 3
#17 Igor Ivanov Lam Research 3
#17 Lochan Verma Qualcomm 3
#17 Di Liang Hewlett Packard Enterprise 3
#17 Mark Fulks Nokia Technologies Oy 3
#17 Thomas M. Collins Myriad Genetics 3
#17 John Logan Atmel 3
#17 Boqin Sun Chevron 3
#17 Walter Bogorad Broadcom 3
#17 Gangavara Prasad Varakur Futurewei Technologies 3
#17 Edwin Hall Niccolls Chevron 3
#37 Annie A. Dang Dell Products 2
#37 Richard D. White Siemens Medical Solutions Usa 2
#37 Andrei Szilagyi Holochip 2
#37 Carl Keller Jasper Technologies 2
#37 Brian Zotter Salesforce 2
#37 Charles Andrews Pillbox Products 2
#37 Joydeep Guha Lam Research 2
#37 Christopher Metz Cisco 2
#37 Scott A. Christensen 2
#37 Yanwei Liu Kla-Tencor 2
#37 Lidu Huang Western Digital Technologies 2
#37 Michael Margulis Cisco 2
#37 Lee K. Tjio Verizon 2
#37 Carl H. Poppe Gcx 2

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