Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Berkeley, CA ranks #109 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 1,047 patents from 534 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Berkeley, CA include Google, Basf Se, Abbott. That works out to 8.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 534 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Shelten Gee Jao Yuen Google 29
2 James Park Google 25
3 Ulrich Mueller Basf Se 16
#4 Benjamin J. Feldman Abbott 14
#4 Paul Daniel Donohoue Caribou Biosciences 14
#6 Michael Plitkins Google 13
#6 Ritesh K. Madan Cisco 13
#8 John Nicholas Gross John Nicholas And Kristin Gross Trust 12
#9 Wayne Spevak Plexxikon 11
#10 Jacob J. Plattner Anacor Pharmaceuticals 10
#10 Michael G. Luby Qualcomm 10
#10 Giovanni Gozzini Apple 10
#10 Keith A. McMillen Bebop Sensors 10
#14 Eric A. Hudson Lam Research 9
#15 Robert T. Knight The Nielsen Company (Us) 8
#16 Daniel James Yeager Verily Life Sciences 7
#16 Phillip B. Messersmith Northwestern University 7
#16 Charles Almy Ojjo 7
#16 Jennifer A. Doudna University of California 7
#20 Laurence Elias Pharmacyclics 6
#20 Sean Van Der Linden Yellowpages.Com 6
#20 Kunwoo Lee LG 6
#23 Sayantan Choudhury Nokia Technologies Oy 5
#23 Scott Hotes Wavemarket 5
#23 Kartik Lamba Inc Square, Co. 5
#23 Lorenz Christoph Minder Qualcomm 5
#23 Hyun Cho Abbott 5
#23 Ramachandran Gurumoorthy The Nielsen Company (Us) 5
#23 Marco A. Zuniga Volterra Semiconductor 5
#23 Janos Kirz Sigray 5
#23 Hans F. Valencia Boston Scientific Scimed 5
#23 Jay D. Keasling University of California 5
#23 Bryan Rudolf Grziwok Lilitab 5
#23 Jeroen Van Rotterdam Open Text 5
#35 Gregory Stephen Lewis Aerosol Dynamics 4
#35 Kevin Toshio Ching Ninthdecimal 4
#35 Yevgeniy S. Nimon Polyplus Battery 4
#35 Junjie Liu Ambrx 4
#35 John Robert Coates Cisco 4
#35 Steven J. Visco Polyplus Battery 4
#35 Ali Ghodsi Databricks 4
#35 Christopher J. Chase AT&T 4
#35 Erin R. Chia Bio-Rad Laboratories 4
#35 Tao Jiang Mallinckrodt 4
#35 Lisa Lippincott Tanium 4
#35 David Hindawi Tanium 4
#35 John Heck Intel 4
#35 Richard W. Storrs Hanuman Pelican 4
#35 Chris Pennello Alc Holdings 4
#35 Martin A. Turon Google 4

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