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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Lafayette, CA ranks #629 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 202 patents from 78 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Lafayette, CA include Intellectual Ventures, Micron, Verizon. That works out to 8.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 78 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 David B. Tuckerman Intellectual Ventures 28
2 Roy Meade Micron 17
2 Arda Aksu Verizon 17
#4 Darren Roy Link Bio-Rad Laboratories 12
#5 Jun Bao Ciena 8
#6 George B. Zimmerman Terrapower 6
#7 Marc Lurie 5
#8 Nasser Barabi Essai 4
#8 Jeffrey A. McKinney Alexza Pharmaceuticals 4
#8 Justin M. Kitagawa Gogrid 4
#8 Albert Shane Google 4
#12 William C. King Verizon 3
#12 Thomas Mitchell Dair Sorenson Ip Holdings 3
#12 Georgeta Masson Osram Opto Semiconductors Gmbh 3
#12 Peter M. Foster Wrap Media 3
#12 Stephen P. Bathurst Apple 3
#12 Michael Edward James Paterson Amazon 3
#12 Bret E. Peterson Scientific Learning 3
#19 Gary Michael Hoversten Chevron 2
#19 William M. Kleiser Chevron 2
#19 James Marggraff Leapfrog Enterprises 2
#19 Carl De Torres Microsoft 2
#19 Andrew H. McGrath Advanced Design Mfg 2
#19 Bret Steven Taylor Google 2
#19 William Moxley Salesforce 2
#19 John Devin MacKenzie Imprint Energy 2
#19 Ahmad Bahai AT&T 2
#19 Subramaniam Venkatraman Google 2
#19 Weiru Wang Genentech 2
#19 Karen L. Fearon Dynavax Technologies 2
#31 Alex Malinovsky 1
#31 Sean S. Hamidi Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 1
#31 Allen Billings Mobitv 1
#31 Lutgard C. De Jonghe Polyplus Battery 1
#31 Keith M. Chugg Trellisware Technologies 1
#31 Robert Kostecki University of California 1
#31 Linda Avey 23Andme 1
#31 Munson Whitman Everett 1
#31 Pierre Barlier Keepcool Usa 1
#31 Kevin Yasumura Google 1
#31 Olajire Idowu Children'S Hospital & Research Center At Oakland 1
#31 Anton Tremsin Arradiance 1
#31 Steve Sposato AT&T 1
#31 Eugene Lim Optiscan Biomedical 1
#31 Ming Yang Wang Quickturn Design Systems 1
#31 Wayne Ferreira Ecoloblue 1
#31 Igor Bogorad University of California 1
#31 Yosinori Watanabe Cadence Design Systems 1
#31 Kyle George Lind Pandora Media 1
#31 Robert O'Reilly JPMorgan Chase 1

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