Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Atherton, CA ranks #658 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 200 patents from 81 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Atherton, CA include Heartflow, Amazon, Apple. That works out to 27.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 81 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Charles A. Taylor Heartflow 16
2 Anurag Windlass Gupta Amazon 14
3 Keng Lim Apple 9
#4 Helmy A. Eltoukhy Guardant Health 5
#4 James F. Dempsey Viewray Technologies 5
#4 Bryan D. O'Connor Meta 5
#4 Vahid Saadat Voyage Medical 5
#4 Robert C. Gardner Quarkstar 5
#4 Ardavan Maleki Tehrani Assia Spe 5
#4 Vahid Saadat Usgi Medical 5
#4 Quang Tran Covidien Lp 5
#12 Lambertus Hesselink Western Digital Technologies 4
#12 AmirAli TALASAZ Guardant Health 4
#12 N. Parker Willis Ebr Systems 4
#12 Nicholas J. Filippi Cisco 4
#16 Paul Badawi Sight Sciences 3
#16 William M. Facteau Acclarent 3
#16 Marcus Albonico Apple 3
#16 Victor H. Shear Intertrust Technologies 3
#16 Barbara Paldus Finesse Solutions 3
#16 Daniel Lau Head Technology Gmbh 3
#16 Mojan Goshayeshgar Kyphon Sàrl 3
#16 Par Botes Pure Storage 3
#16 Thierry Nivaggioli AbbVie 3
#16 Richard W. O'Connor Invicta Medical 3
#26 Haixiang Liang Broadcom 2
#26 Andrew B. Carlson Exaflop 2
#26 Clayton Woodward Bavor, Jr. Google 2
#26 Antoine Balaresque 2
#26 Andrew Ho Sipix Imaging 2
#26 Rory W. Fuerst Fuerst Group 2
#26 Vincent Pluvinage Earlens 2
#26 Jeffrey C. Hawkins Numenta 2
#26 Vishu Gupta Meta 2
#26 Henry W. Bradlow Neutron Holdings 2
#26 John M. Cioffi Adaptive Spectrum And Signal Alignment, Incorporated 2
#26 Michael Judd Richter Meta 2
#26 Reza Kassayan Sonitus Medical 2
#26 David F. Welch Infinera 2
#26 Andrew W. Kittler Theatro Labs 2
#26 Botao Hu 2
#26 Lawrence Horowitz I2 Pharmaceuticals 2
#26 Stephen G. Grubb Infinera 2
#26 Keith A. Bostian Mpex Pharmaceuticals 2
#45 Stefan Roever Api Market 1
#45 Dennis S. Fernandez Unknown 1
#45 Navid Afsarifard Kali Care 1
#45 Dhanurjay A.S. Patil Ebay 1
#45 William Richard Trutna Corning Incorporated 1
#45 Dennis G. Nicholson Adobe 1

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