Top Inventors in Pleasanton, CA — 2016

Pleasanton, CA ranks #69 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 1,345 patents from 602 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Pleasanton, CA include Central Glass Company, Limited, Avalanche Technology, IBM. That works out to 16.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 602 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	James L. Hedrick	Central Glass Company, Limited	28
2	Yiming Huai	Avalanche Technology	17
2	Sourav Saha	IBM	17
#4	Rajinder Dhindsa	Lam Research	16
#5	Jianxiong Shi	Apple	14
#6	Michael L. Green	Abbott	12
#6	Jongwook Kye	Globalfoundries	12
#6	Sivananda K. Kanakasabapathy	IBM	12
#9	Daniel Hawkins	Intellectual Ventures	11
#10	Michael P. Wallace	Stryker	10
#10	Jan Medved	Cisco	10
#10	Kevin Ness	10X Genomics	10
#13	Shahid Rauf	Applied Materials	9
#13	Ganping Ju	Seagate Technology	9
#13	Kai Qin Lao	Thermo Fisher	9
#13	Kellen Christopher Smalley	Kabam,	9
#13	Zheng Xu	Tesla	9
#13	Sudheer A. Grandhi	Interdigital Technology	9
#13	Stephen Grant	Ericsson	9
#20	Fabiano Botelho	Rubrik	8
#20	Huagang Xie	Palo Alto Networks	8
#22	Tanmay Kumar	—	7
#22	Benjamin Hindson	10X Genomics	7
#22	R. Scott West	Bridgelux	7
#22	Patrick Faith	Visa	7
#22	Haisheng Rong	Intel	7
#22	Arun Raghupathy	Apple	7
#22	Alex L. Lim	Zoll Circulation	7
#22	William L. Smith	The Clorox	7
#30	Sachin Gopaldas Totale	Emc Ip Holding Company	6
#30	Harold Carrison	Relievant Medsystems	6
#30	Satinderpall S. Pannu	Lawrence Livermore National Security	6
#30	Greg Nyce	Siluria Technologies	6
#30	Seung Bum Rim	Sunpower	6
#30	Qian Fu	Lam Research	6
#30	Vasu Iyengar	Apple	6
#30	Alan H. Ostroff	Cameron Health	6
#30	Arthur Back	Coopervision International Limited	6
#30	George Williams	Sony	6
#40	Yih-Jen D. Chen	Western Digital Technologies	5
#40	Klint A. Rose	Lawrence Livermore National Security	5
#40	Chul Chung	Samsung	5
#40	Jason A. A. West	—	5
#40	Howard Frazier	Broadcom	5
#40	Waheed Qureshi	Citrix Systems	5
#40	Charles Edwards	Intematix	5
#40	Jared Heymann	The Clorox	5
#40	Venkatraman Prabhakar	Cypress Semiconductor	5
#40	Andrew J. Burstein	Volterra Semiconductor	5
#40	Hans Klein	Cypress Semiconductor	5

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