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Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Alameda, CA ranks #318 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 412 patents from 159 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Alameda, CA include Pdf Solutions, Dolby Laboratories Licensing, Abbott. That works out to 5.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 159 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Indranil De Pdf Solutions 38
2 Alan J. Seefeldt Dolby Laboratories Licensing 28
3 Zenghe Liu Abbott 20
#4 Damon Vander Lind Kitty Hawk 19
#5 Timothy Stowe Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated 11
#6 James Murphy Juniper Networks 8
#6 Christopher Michael Lew Chevron 8
#8 Mark S. Vinton Dolby Laboratories Licensing 7
#9 Theodore W. Rogers Intuitive Surgical 6
#9 Russell Petersen Elemental Led 6
#9 Robert A. Stull AbbVie 6
#9 Magnus Ekman NVIDIA 6
#13 Andreas Stolcke Microsoft 5
#13 Scott C. Benson Applied Biosystems 5
#13 Glenn Berman Abbott 5
#16 Cass Khoo 4
#16 Wesley Scott Harper Abbott 4
#16 Oriana Jeannette Love IBM 4
#16 Satoru Miura Seiko Epson 4
#16 Stephen Pons Penumbra 4
#16 Richard J. Rikoski Hadal 4
#16 Ryan Hagey Visa 4
#16 Nathan de Vries Apple 4
#16 Gabriel Thurston Sibley Verdant Robotics 4
#16 John T. Felts Sio2 Medical Products 4
#26 Christopher McCaslin Light & Motion Industries 3
#26 Ritika Sahai Google 3
#26 Prasad Peddada Salesforce 3
#26 Dai Duong Doan Salesforce 3
#26 Jon Sorenson Pacific Biosciences Of California 3
#26 Robert S. Damus Hadal 3
#26 Mark Kalman Amazon 3
#26 Alexander Chan Vital Connect 3
#26 Gregor Mathias Maier Big Switch Networks 3
#26 Brandon Parod Henge Docks 3
#26 Wesley Buck Elemental Led 3
#26 Michael C. Johnson Locus Robotics 3
#26 David A. Gallup Vytronus 3
#26 Mathew Noel Rekow Velodyne Lidar Usa 3
#26 Randall Brezski Johnson & Johnson 3
#26 Steven G. King Landscape Structures 3
#26 Daniel Benoit Stmicroelectronics (Crolles 2) Sas 3
#43 John Babbidge Assa Abloy Ab 2
#43 Peter Sturt Lynn Other Lab 2
#43 Roy E. Morgan Nuortho Surgical 2
#43 Neil Holmgren Medtronic 2
#43 Alexander Seitz Schuler Pressen Gmbh 2
#43 Bradley Rhodes Ricoh Company 2
#43 Diego Aristizabal Trivascular 2
#43 Jason Waddle Inc Square, Co. 2

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