Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Alameda, CA ranks #369 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 348 patents from 162 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Alameda, CA include Pdf Solutions, Kitty Hawk, AbbVie. That works out to 4.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 162 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Indranil De Pdf Solutions 23
2 Damon Vander Lind Kitty Hawk 22
3 Robert A. Stull AbbVie 13
3 Alan J. Seefeldt Dolby Laboratories Licensing 13
#5 Zenghe Liu Abbott 12
#6 Theodore W. Rogers Intuitive Surgical 9
#7 James Murphy Juniper Networks 8
#8 Nathan de Vries Apple 6
#8 Glenn Berman Abbott 6
#8 Wesley Scott Harper Abbott 6
#11 Russell Petersen Elemental Led 5
#12 John T. Felts Sio2 Medical Products 4
#12 Ryan Hagey Visa 4
#12 Alexander Chan Vital Connect 4
#12 Michael C. Johnson Locus Robotics 4
#12 Timothy Stowe Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated 4
#12 Philip J. Lee Emd Millipore 4
#12 Mark S. Vinton Dolby Laboratories Licensing 4
#19 Peter Sturt Lynn Other Lab 3
#19 Alexander Patrick Theodossiou Energy Recovery 3
#19 Fritz Barnes Mobitv 3
#19 Gabriel Thurston Sibley Verdant Robotics 3
#19 Magnus Ekman NVIDIA 3
#19 Satoru Miura Seiko Epson 3
#19 Mathew Noel Rekow Velodyne Lidar Usa 3
#19 David A. Gallup Vytronus 3
#27 Thierry Preyssler Wind River Systems 2
#27 Cass Khoo 2
#27 Brandon Parod Henge Docks 2
#27 Wesley Buck Elemental Led 2
#27 Xiaoliang Wang Nanjing University 2
#27 Christopher R. McCaslin 2
#27 Teresa Duffy 2
#27 Noel Rabinowitz 2
#27 Jennifer Daley Unknown 2
#27 John Cartan Oracle 2
#27 Douglas Justin Shearer Inc Square, Co. 2
#27 Dai Duong Doan Salesforce 2
#27 Alexander Mastroianni Thermo Fisher 2
#27 Gary Ashley Kosan Biosciences Incorporated 2
#27 Francesco Aieta Leia 2
#27 William Don Harriman Crystal Bioscience 2
#27 Nicholas A. Lineback IBM 2
#27 Joseph Davidchik Intuit 2
#27 Xiaoying Chen Roche Molecular Systems 2
#27 Barbara Frewen Zymergen 2
#27 Sampriti Bhattacharyya MIT 2
#27 Laura J. Bennett IBM 2
#27 Cem Unsal Intuit 2
#27 Richard J. Rikoski Hadal 2

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