Top Inventors in Oakland, CA — 2016

Oakland, CA ranks #82 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 1,194 patents from 610 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Oakland, CA include Qualcomm, Seagate Technology, Immersion. That works out to 2.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 610 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Rajarshi Gupta	Qualcomm	31
2	Earl T. Cohen	Seagate Technology	26
3	David M. Birnbaum	Immersion	19
#4	Gary Alan Hayter	Abbott	18
#5	Jack Dorsey	Inc Square, Co.	15
#6	Gary M. Zalewski	Sony	14
#7	Stefan Marti	Harman International Industries, Incorporated	11
#8	Dennis Matthew Puhalla	Wimo Labs	10
#9	Mitchell Joseph Heinrich	Google	9
#10	Robinson Piramuthu	Ebay	8
#10	Jeffrey R. Hamilton	—	8
#10	Alexander Jay Cuthbert	Google	8
#10	Ric Cote	Channel Medsystems	8
#10	Avi Bar-Zeev	Microsoft	8
#15	Adam Cheyer	Apple	7
#15	Kayvan Alikhani	Emc	7
#15	Stephen N. Schiller	Adobe	7
#15	Philipe R. Manoux	Cardica	7
#15	Nicholas Christian Mealy	Cisco	7
#15	Matthew O'Brien	Jackel International	7
#21	Maria G. Lam	Verizon	6
#21	Edwin P. Berlin, Jr.	Lightsail Energy	6
#21	Joseph Anthony Heanue	Triple Ring Technologies	6
#21	Steven E. Carlson	Tula Etechnology	6
#21	Danielle A. Fong	Lightsail Energy	6
#21	Joseph Catanese, III	Neotract	6
#21	Fredric C. Colman	Abbott	6
#21	Samuel Bogoch	—	6
#21	Michelle Fisher	Unknown	6
#21	Martin H. Muendel	Lumentum Operations	6
#21	Beau David Cronin	Salesforce	6
#21	Ryan Linderman	Sunpower	6
#33	William Henderson	Inc Square, Co.	5
#33	Charles A. McWherter	Cymabay Therapeutics	5
#33	Alexander Joseph Ringrose	Google	5
#33	Yulian Bagirov	Fellow Industries	5
#33	Christopher Allen Wilson	Spectranetics	5
#33	Charlie Nghiem	Humangear	5
#33	Hung A. Pham	Apple	5
#33	Davide Di Censo	Harman International Industries, Incorporated	5
#41	John GANNON	Sunpower	4
#41	Samuel Mason Curry	Abbott	4
#41	Kiyo Kubo	Aruba Networks	4
#41	Gabriel Campodonico	Evernote	4
#41	Charles Lyman Bates, III	The Ames Companies	4
#41	Christopher M. Spadaccini	Lawrence Livermore National Security	4
#41	Janahan Vivekanandan	Google	4
#41	Vanessa Tolosa	Lawrence Livermore National Security	4
#41	Krisztina Pongracz	Geron	4
#41	Matthew Danning	Sunpower	4

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