Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Millbrae, CA ranks #1,005 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 125 patents from 62 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Millbrae, CA include Apple, Google, Sprint Communications. That works out to 5.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 62 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Charles J. Migos Apple 13
2 David Harrison Silver Google 11
3 Kosol Jintaseranee Sprint Communications 6
#4 Xiaoming Shen Nektar Therapeutics 5
#4 Richard L. Mackman Gilead Sciences 5
#6 Robert Murray McKinnell Theravance 4
#6 Chiu Ngo Samsung 4
#6 Romain P. Guy Google 4
#9 Mark E. Reynolds Genentech 3
#9 Weimin Zhu Apexigen 3
#9 John Douglas Steinberg Ecofactor 3
#9 Ravi Saxena Pacific Biosciences Of California 3
#9 Reed Morse Google 3
#14 Chien-Hsu Chen Zircon 2
#14 Kevin B. Charles Jumpsport 2
#14 Charles Andrew Boswell Genentech 2
#14 Dries Vercruysse Imec Vzw 2
#14 Reuben Brewer Stanford University 2
#14 Wayne Chan Vungle 2
#14 Christopher J. Kirk Onyx Therapeutics 2
#14 Jon Carver Alarmforce Industries 2
#14 Ross Daniel Venook 2
#23 Robert A. Lazarus Genentech 1
#23 Phillip Aquilina Hipmunk 1
#23 Bo Lian University Of Arizona 1
#23 Marilyn Joyce Schneider Hollinger Guidewire Software 1
#23 Victor K. Tsui Powder Pharmaceuticals Incorporated 1
#23 Se Baek Oh Apple 1
#23 Rayna Takaki Venook Genentech 1
#23 William E. Jarvis Nvent Services Gmbh 1
#23 Jon P. McAlister Google 1
#23 Brett Michael Bethke Skydio 1
#23 Sandy Yu Microsoft 1
#23 Jay Markello Sony 1
#23 Donald Tang Gilead Sciences 1
#23 Smita Shankar Impossible Foods 1
#23 Paul Jordan Danaher 1
#23 Yingcai Wang Amgen 1
#23 John Dimitrios Fanourgiakis 1
#23 Henry Y. Lui Intel 1
#23 Terry A. Keller, II Transitions Optical 1
#23 Sanjay Kalyanasundaram Blackberry Limited 1
#23 James Andya Genentech 1
#23 Arthur M. Shulenberger Optiscan Biomedical 1
#23 Michael Hartman Novartis Ag 1
#23 Ryan Castellucci Palantir Technologies 1
#23 Susan Mampusti Madrid Danisco A/S 1
#23 Yuh-Fun Maa Alza 1
#23 Sebaek Oh Kla-Tencor 1
#23 Siddarth Raghunathan Google 1

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