Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Tracy, CA ranks #922 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 137 patents from 64 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Tracy, CA include Blackberry Limited, Applied Materials, Salesforce. That works out to 1.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 64 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Adrian Buckley Blackberry Limited 13
2 Errol Antonio C. Sanchez Applied Materials 9
3 Joseph M. Olsen Salesforce 8
#4 John Cunningham G3 Enterprises 6
#5 Edward J. Gayles Amazon 5
#5 Joseph C. Farmer Lawrence Livermore National Security 5
#5 Fethi Dhaoui Actel 5
#8 Saroj Kumar Sahu Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated 4
#8 Gopi Krishna Juniper Networks 4
#8 Jaspal S. Gill Juniper Networks 4
#8 Michaela Vanderveen Qualcomm 4
#8 James Ogden Unmanned Innovations 4
#13 Xing-Cai Guo Hgst Netherlands, B.V. 3
#13 Don Nguyen Overland Storage 3
#15 Frederick B. Jenne Cypress Semiconductor 2
#15 Dushyant Sharma Microsoft 2
#15 Martinos Tran Flowcardia 2
#15 Glenn Huete Lawrence Livermore National Security 2
#15 Jeffrey D. Chamberlain Intel 2
#15 Terry N. Olney Thermo Fisher 2
#15 Sabina Petride Oracle 2
#15 Gilbert Mata, Jr. Covidien Lp 2
#15 Brian E. Brusca Enovix 2
#15 Timothy L. Sheldon Tesla 2
#25 Hongjin Qiu Coopervision International Limited 1
#25 Seung Bong Han Avaya 1
#25 Mark J. Wihl Kla Instruments 1
#25 Fritz J. Swenson Lawrence Livermore National Security 1
#25 Guillermo A. Garza 1
#25 Jeffrey L. Telles Top Shelf Manufacturing 1
#25 Roland S. Mompar Boston Scientific Scimed 1
#25 Cindy Larson Lawrence Livermore National Security 1
#25 Anson Hatch Sandia 1
#25 Mao Xi Zhang Lawrence Livermore National Security 1
#25 Ashok Varadhan Cisco 1
#25 James Lawrence Mangin Dell Products 1
#25 Tak Wai Cheung Reckitt Benckiser 1
#25 Vijay M. Vaniapura Mattson Technology 1
#25 Salman Kahn University of California 1
#25 Kurt Joseph Perez Spansion Llc. 1
#25 Chris Maher Kla-Tencor 1
#25 Errol C. Sanchez Applied Materials 1
#25 Surendra Patel Juniper Networks 1
#25 Ricardo Espinosa Siemens Medical Solutions Usa 1
#25 Anand K. Palanisamy Tellabs Operations 1
#25 Deborah Hooker 1
#25 Jon K. Aimone Oracle 1
#25 William V. Hodges Tc1 1
#25 Gopi Krishnamurthy Intel 1
#25 Randy Jessee IBM 1

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