Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Lafayette, CA ranks #636 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 210 patents from 76 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Lafayette, CA include Intellectual Ventures, Sorenson Ip Holdings, Micron. That works out to 8.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 76 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 David B. Tuckerman Intellectual Ventures 33
2 Thomas Mitchell Dair Sorenson Ip Holdings 14
3 Roy Meade Micron 11
#4 George B. Zimmerman Terrapower 10
#5 Darren Roy Link Bio-Rad Laboratories 9
#5 Arda Aksu Verizon 9
#7 Carine Hoarau Tc1 5
#7 Jun Bao Ciena 5
#7 Daniel Almonacid Ubiome 5
#7 Subramaniam Venkatraman Google 5
#11 John Hughes Adobe 4
#12 Stephen P. Bathurst Apple 3
#12 Vladimir Filonov Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories 3
#12 Nasser Barabi Essai 3
#12 Kevin Yasumura Google 3
#12 Keith M. Chugg Trellisware Technologies 3
#12 Lutgard C. De Jonghe Polyplus Battery 3
#12 Nathan Pacyga Kabam, 3
#12 William Moxley Salesforce 3
#12 Bret E. Peterson Scientific Learning 3
#21 Eugene Lim Optiscan Biomedical 2
#21 Bret Steven Taylor Google 2
#21 Steven M. Blumenfeld 2
#21 Daniel Pinkel University of California 2
#21 Stephen A. Sposato AT&T 2
#21 John Todd Singulex 2
#21 Diane C. Salmon Visa 2
#21 Siddharth Singh Microsoft 2
#21 Lewis James Marggraff Kinoo 2
#21 Yuval Tarsi Broadcom 2
#21 Amit Rajguru Emkinetics 2
#21 Todd Hollenberg Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories 2
#21 Donna G. Albertson University of California 2
#21 Thomas Arthur Shoenhair Zynga 2
#21 Albert Shane Google 2
#21 William Christopher Banta Amazon 2
#21 George Horia Galatanu Adobe 2
#38 Lawrence A. Zulch 1
#38 Konrad E. Meissner Atlas Pacific Engineering 1
#38 Munson Whitman Everett 1
#38 Pierre Barlier Keepcool Usa 1
#38 Craig Latimer X Development 1
#38 Robert Kostecki University of California 1
#38 Nigel Moriarty Green Tech Co. 1
#38 Øystein Evensen 1
#38 John Diemer Reckitt Benckiser 1
#38 Ivan Lysiuk Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories 1
#38 Jonathan Choy University of California 1
#38 Allen Billings Mobitv 1
#38 Kyle George Lind Pandora Media 1

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