Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Berkeley, CA ranks #108 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 1,039 patents from 560 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Berkeley, CA include Facense, Abbott, Basf Se. That works out to 8.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 560 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Arie Tzvieli Facense 20
2 Benjamin J. Feldman Abbott 14
3 Ulrich Mueller Basf Se 13
#4 Michael Plitkins Google 12
#5 Paul Daniel Donohoue Caribou Biosciences 11
#5 Shelten Gee Jao Yuen Google 11
#7 Michael G. Luby Qualcomm 9
#7 Giovanni Gozzini Apple 9
#9 Ritesh K. Madan Cisco 8
#9 Daniel James Yeager Verily Life Sciences 8
#9 Charles Almy Ojjo 8
#9 Eric A. Hudson Lam Research 8
#9 Judith Campisi Buck Institute For Research On Aging 8
#9 Mohit Singh Seeo 8
#15 Jennifer A. Doudna University of California 7
#15 Jeroen Van Rotterdam Open Text 7
#15 Wayne Spevak Plexxikon 7
#15 Andrew V. Hill Kla-Tencor 7
#15 Noah Balmer Vitec Holdings Italia Srl 7
#15 James Park Google 7
#15 Anantha Pradeep The Nielsen Company (Us) 7
#22 Jesse Collins Salesforce 6
#22 Sean Van Der Linden Yellowpages.Com 6
#22 Andrew Chung Salesforce 6
#22 Ramachandran Gurumoorthy The Nielsen Company (Us) 6
#22 Sayantan Choudhury Nokia Technologies Oy 6
#22 Wilson Harron Gracenote 6
#28 Christian W. Siebel Genentech 5
#28 John E. Murphy Bayer Healthcare 5
#28 Kartik Lamba Inc Square, Co. 5
#28 Dewey Ho Lee Gracenote 5
#28 Benjamin Rupert Blue Current 5
#28 Steven G. Herbst Apple 5
#28 Robert T. Knight The Nielsen Company (Us) 5
#28 Keith A. McMillen Bebop Sensors 5
#28 Joanna Burdynska Blue Current 5
#28 Timothy Learmonth Trutag Technologies 5
#38 Laurence Elias Pharmacyclics 4
#38 Matthew B. Francis University of California 4
#38 Peter Dunker Roku 4
#38 Jay D. Keasling University of California 4
#38 Zeev Neumeier Inscape Data 4
#38 Freddie Sanchez Dolby Laboratories Licensing 4
#38 Zachary S. Judkins Sunpower 4
#38 David Hindawi Tanium 4
#38 Graham McDermott Meta 4
#38 John Nicholas Gross John Nicholas And Kristin Gross Trust 4
#38 Greg Ellis Priest-Dorman Google 4
#38 Lisa Lippincott Tanium 4
#38 Ashok Katdare Merck 4

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