Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Millbrae, CA ranks #1,066 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 124 patents from 82 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Millbrae, CA include Gilead Sciences, Ecofactor, Google. That works out to 5.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 82 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Richard L. Mackman Gilead Sciences 7
2 John Douglas Steinberg Ecofactor 5
3 David Harrison Silver Google 4
3 Jason Wong Google 4
#5 Yandong Mao Finisar 3
#5 David Purdy Uber Technologies 3
#5 Richard Lee Nuccitelli Pulse Biosciences 3
#5 Charles J. Migos Apple 3
#5 Rudolph Mutter Finjan Mobile 3
#10 Shreya Uchil Mocana 2
#10 Thomas Baxter Kabam, 2
#10 Robert A. Lazarus Genentech 2
#10 Ravi Saxena Pacific Biosciences Of California 2
#10 Tom Chang IBM 2
#10 Shyr Jiann Li Kindred Biosciences 2
#10 Daniel Bucks Vizuri Health Sciences 2
#10 Arthur M. Shulenberger Optiscan Biomedical 2
#10 Karl Willis Autodesk 2
#10 Pamela Nuccitelli Pulse Biosciences 2
#10 Eric Lam L'Oreal 2
#10 Romain P. Guy Google 2
#10 Xiaoming Shen Nektar Therapeutics 2
#10 Reed Morse Google 2
#10 Kevin B. Charles Jumpsport 2
#10 Brett Michael Bethke Skydio 2
#26 Karl Willis Carnegie Mellon University 1
#26 Kosol Jintaseranee Sprint Communications 1
#26 Rayna Takaki Venook Genentech 1
#26 Andrew Poes Google 1
#26 Ivan Ho Chan NVIDIA 1
#26 Jay Markello Sony 1
#26 Donald Tang Gilead Sciences 1
#26 Terry Paul Rodery, Jr. Cloudflare 1
#26 Emily Tung Pivot Bio 1
#26 Smita Shankar Impossible Foods 1
#26 Anh Khuc Salesforce 1
#26 Brian Patrick 1
#26 Isabelle Lehoux 1
#26 Alan Kaneshiro 1
#26 Chiu Ngo Samsung 1
#26 David Loo General Motors 1
#26 Martin Snajdr Asml Netherlands B.V. 1
#26 Marcus Wayland Tang Corona Clipper 1
#26 Sanjay Kalyanasundaram Blackberry Limited 1
#26 Alok Rishi Coraid 1
#26 Daniel L Healy Roblox 1
#26 Gayle Misle Unknown 1
#26 James Andya Genentech 1
#26 Jiwen Cai Verizon 1
#26 Ali Rezafard Opswat 1

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