Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Petaluma, CA ranks #872 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 155 patents from 75 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Petaluma, CA include Tesla, Enphase Energy, Digilock Asia. That works out to 2.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 75 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Tyrus Hudson Tesla 14
2 Martin Fornage Enphase Energy 11
3 Asil T. Gokcebay Digilock Asia 9
#4 Marcos C. Tzannes Tq Delta 6
#4 Bill Talios Dynacraft Bsc 6
#4 John Bisges Dynacraft Bsc 6
#7 Michael J. Harrison Enphase Energy 5
#8 Edward W. Boyd Broadcom 4
#8 Y. King Liu IBM 4
#8 Jeffery Argentine Medtronic 4
#8 Mudhafar Hassan-Ali Enphase Energy 4
#12 Paul Rene Borloz Gcx 3
#12 David Gomez-Rosado Groupon 3
#12 Robert F. Kelley Genentech 3
#15 Gareth Winckle Dow Pharmaceutical Sciences 2
#15 Robin A. Bordow Agilent Technologies 2
#15 Stephen J. West Ciena 2
#15 Glen Kramer Broadcom 2
#15 William Gordon Camelbak Products 2
#15 Hojabr Alimi Collidion 2
#15 Scott Sturges Andrews Stragent 2
#15 Donald O'Brien Ecolab Usa 2
#15 John Chambers Agc Flat Glass North America 2
#15 Stelios Tzannis Acelrx Pharmaceuticals 2
#15 Adam Schnitzer Disney 2
#15 Robert G. Whirley Trivascular 2
#27 Dustin Bouch Novartis Ag 1
#27 Christian Sullivan 1
#27 Dennis J. O'Rear Chevron 1
#27 Johann Karkheck Ojjo 1
#27 George Henry Hines Realwear 1
#27 William J. Sell Mast Immunosystems 1
#27 Mark A. Richardson Meta 1
#27 David DeRenzy Dexcom 1
#27 Steven D. Hodges 1
#27 Steven H. Newell Panamax 1
#27 Patrick E. Brecht 1
#27 Gary T. Albright 1
#27 Christopher T. Chappell Colgate-Palmolive 1
#27 Ron Lee Feldman Qualcomm 1
#27 Michael Arikat 1
#27 Peter C. Bordiga Mattson Technology 1
#27 Daniel Johnson Eyecam 1
#27 Ray Steven Spratt Carl Zeiss Vision International Gmbh 1
#27 Robert C. Hranac Iteris 1
#27 John Francis Henning, Jr. 1
#27 Michael Carmel 1
#27 Sharon Calahan Disney 1
#27 Margaret Sichi 1
#27 Nicholas S. Cohon Tesla 1

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