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Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Richmond, CA ranks #852 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 150 patents from 81 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Richmond, CA include Sangamo Therapeutics, Sangamo Biosciences, University of California. That works out to 1.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 81 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Edward J. Rebar Sangamo Therapeutics 11
1 Jeffrey C. Miller Sangamo Therapeutics 11
3 Philip D. Gregory Sangamo Biosciences 9
#4 Alexander Katz University of California 6
#5 Michael C. Holmes Sangamo Biosciences 5
#5 Loren Berg Ciena 5
#5 David Paschon Sangamo Therapeutics 5
#8 Paul Winer Intel 4
#8 Thomas Laidig Applied Materials 4
#10 Lyman Young Chevron 3
#10 Dale R. Cameron BOE 3
#12 Gregory J. Cost Sangamo Therapeutics 2
#12 Howard Steven Lacheen Chevron 2
#12 Erich Kai Stephan Pegasus Solar 2
#12 Timothy Wheeler Alion Energy 2
#12 Russell DeKelver Sangamo Therapeutics 2
#12 Allen Yang Yang Intel 2
#12 Umesh Panchaksharaiah Oracle 2
#12 Glenn Harris Pegasus Solar 2
#12 Horacio Trevino Chevron 2
#12 Dmitry Y. Guschin Dow Agrosciences 2
#12 Jide Xu University of California 2
#12 H. Steve Zhang Sangamo Therapeutics 2
#12 Nicholas Barton Sunpower 2
#12 David Kai Yuen Poon Zymeworks 2
#26 Hardayal PRASHAD Genentech 1
#26 Ann E. Blechl USDA 1
#26 Daniel Ciprian Preda Quantcast 1
#26 Xiao-Song Gong Bio-Rad Laboratories 1
#26 Gary K. Lee Sangamo Therapeutics 1
#26 Attila Horvath Quswami 1
#26 William Summers 1
#26 Alex Potts Leapfrog Enterprises 1
#26 Dale Ando Sangamo Biosciences 1
#26 Syed Saleem Javid Brahmanapalli Shutterfly 1
#26 Mark Moore Aditazz 1
#26 Andrew B. Nissan Chevron 1
#26 Lob Cheung 1
#26 Marcus F. Schicklberger Pendulum Therapeutics 1
#26 Angelo Miller 1
#26 Wolfgang Oels Alion Energy 1
#26 Brian L. Carlson University of California 1
#26 Donald C. Lewis Aspect Software 1
#26 Raymond Richardson Wind River Systems 1
#26 Lizanne Kaiser Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories 1
#26 Christopher Thomas Denso International America 1
#26 Bo Kou Chevron 1
#26 Trevor Collingwood Sangamo Biosciences 1
#26 Kand Ly Riverbed Technology 1
#26 Mohammad Zafar Shahbaz Abl Ip Holding 1

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