Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Danville, CA ranks #309 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 418 patents from 205 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Danville, CA include Micron, HP, Crossbar. That works out to 9.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 205 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Vladimir Odnoblyudov Micron 17
2 Ning Ge HP 16
2 Hagop Nazarian Crossbar 16
#4 George Matamis Sandisk Technologies 12
#5 Mehdi Asnaashari Micron 9
#6 Shu-Shang Sam Wei Emc 8
#7 Di Liang Hewlett Packard Enterprise 7
#8 Ajit Gaddam Visa 6
#8 Jiping Fu Novartis Ag 6
#8 John Yue Jun Jiang Roamware 6
#8 Jorge M. Fernandes Vivotech 6
#12 Anup K. Singh Sandia 5
#12 Steven R. Rados Verizon 5
#12 Dennis Miloseski Google 5
#12 Vitaliy Teryoshin Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories 5
#12 Lochan Verma Qualcomm 5
#17 Nancy Hilgers Visa 4
#17 Paul M. McDonald Meta 4
#17 Michael Epstein Google 4
#17 Michael D. McJimsey Volterra Semiconductor 4
#17 David R. Scheuing The Clorox 4
#17 Craig A. Schultz Acalvio Technologies 4
#17 Peter Wagner Zyomyx 4
#17 Maxim Gubin Google 4
#25 Joydeep Guha Lam Research 3
#25 Ben Tompkins Penumbra 3
#25 Renaldi Winoto Disney 3
#25 Carl Keller Jasper Technologies 3
#25 Chris Savarese Radar 3
#25 Annie A. Dang Dell Products 3
#25 Kamala Krishna Chevron 3
#25 Michael F. Tomasco Abbott 3
#25 Khaled Mammou Apple 3
#25 Stanley Stokowski Kla-Tencor 3
#25 John Ashley Howmedica Osteonics 3
#25 Reza Nourai Magic Leap 3
#25 Emmanuel Laffon de Mazieres Amazon 3
#25 Richard W. Solarz Kla-Tencor 3
#25 Frank Guo Nantero 3
#25 Enrique Romo Auris Health 3
#25 Igor Ivanov Lam Research 3
#25 Richard J. Uriarte GE 3
#43 Thomas Goetze Siemens Aktiengesellschaft 2
#43 Joseph D. Steele Adobe 2
#43 Terry Sylvan Kam-Chiu Ma Synopsys 2
#43 Tapraj Singh Juniper Networks 2
#43 Yefim Gelfond Oracle 2
#43 Amar Gupta Roche Molecular Systems 2
#43 Neil McLellan A-Sat 2
#43 Jim C. Hwang Apple 2

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