Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Atherton, CA ranks #667 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 202 patents from 90 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Atherton, CA include Heartflow, Amazon, Usgi Medical. That works out to 28.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 90 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Charles A. Taylor Heartflow 17
2 Anurag Windlass Gupta Amazon 15
3 Vahid Saadat Usgi Medical 7
#4 Keng Lim Apple 6
#5 William M. Facteau Acclarent 5
#5 Derek Collison Pivotal Software 5
#7 Dennis S. Fernandez Unknown 4
#7 John M. Cioffi Adaptive Spectrum And Signal Alignment, Incorporated 4
#7 Ross Koningstein Google 4
#7 Richard W. O'Connor Invicta Medical 4
#7 Par Botes Pure Storage 4
#7 Michael John Beesley Juniper Networks 4
#13 James F. Dempsey Viewray Technologies 3
#13 AmirAli TALASAZ Guardant Health 3
#13 Helmy A. Eltoukhy Guardant Health 3
#13 David Tobin Palantir Technologies 3
#13 Vishu Gupta Meta 3
#13 Jeffrey C. Smith Smule 3
#13 Paul Badawi Sight Sciences 3
#13 Michael Judd Richter Meta 3
#13 Ramachandran Thirucote Tesorx Pharma 3
#13 Quang Tran Covidien Lp 3
#13 Anatoli B. Stein Guzik Technical Enterprises 3
#24 Robert C. Gardner Quarkstar 2
#24 Victor H. Shear Intertrust Technologies 2
#24 Ardavan Maleki Tehrani Assia Spe 2
#24 Andrew Ho Sipix Imaging 2
#24 Marcus Albonico Apple 2
#24 Rene Meyer Unity Semiconductor 2
#24 Steven Ryutaro Takayama Logitech Europe S.A. 2
#24 Antonia Teresita Ancheta Maninang 2
#24 Lambertus Hesselink Western Digital Technologies 2
#24 Jeffrey C. Hawkins Numenta 2
#24 Antoine Balaresque 2
#24 J. David Chute 2
#24 George Samachisa 2
#24 Henry W. Bradlow Neutron Holdings 2
#24 Daniel Essindi Behrendt Honda Motor Co. 2
#24 Ignatius B. Tjandrasuwita NVIDIA 2
#24 Bryan D. O'Connor Meta 2
#24 Bryan L. Pate Pt Motion Works 2
#24 Arthur W. Zafiropoulo Ultratech 2
#24 Edward H. Frank Broadcom 2
#24 Marie-Anne Neimat Oracle 2
#24 Adrian Ludwig Google 2
#24 Barry Herman Quantum 2
#47 William J. Richard 1
#47 Navid Afsarifard Kali Care 1
#47 Keith A. Bostian Mpex Pharmaceuticals 1
#47 David M. Maurice Stanford University 1

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