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Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Tracy, CA ranks #1,044 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 127 patents from 61 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Tracy, CA include Qualcomm, Blackberry Limited, Applied Materials. That works out to 1.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 61 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Michaela Vanderveen Qualcomm 13
2 Adrian Buckley Blackberry Limited 12
3 Errol Antonio C. Sanchez Applied Materials 9
#4 Jaspal S. Gill Juniper Networks 5
#4 Jean-Pierre Cole Abbott 5
#4 Saroj Kumar Sahu Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated 5
#7 Dushyant Sharma Microsoft 3
#7 G. Richard Newell Microsemi Soc 3
#7 Michael Spertus Broadcom 3
#7 Jeffrey D. Chamberlain Intel 3
#7 John Speck Rearden 3
#7 Joseph C. Farmer Lawrence Livermore National Security 3
#7 Brian E. Brusca Enovix 3
#14 Seung Bong Han Avaya 2
#14 Nick Heredia Bio-Rad Laboratories 2
#14 Edward J. Gayles Amazon 2
#14 Mirza Naeem Afzal Oracle 2
#14 Ahmed Mohamed Ahmadein Polaris Wireless 2
#14 Francois Charette Ford 2
#14 William V. Hodges Tc1 2
#14 Raymundo Alatorre Mercado Nike 2
#14 Randy Jessee IBM 2
#23 John Cunningham G3 Enterprises 1
#23 Thomas R. Metz Lawrence Livermore National Security 1
#23 Dianna Maar Bio-Rad Laboratories 1
#23 Bassil Dahiyat Xencor 1
#23 Zhenqiang Ye Dust Networks 1
#23 Shafiq A. Naweed 1
#23 Gary Lee Lang Sprint Communications 1
#23 Roice Joseph Gatan 1
#23 Conner T. Sharpe Lawrence Livermore National Security 1
#23 Randall L. Hurd Lawrence Livermore National Security 1
#23 Brendan Xavier Louis Visa 1
#23 Hubert Vollmer Avanex 1
#23 Ronald F. Renzi Sandia 1
#23 Swamy Sadashivaiah Renu Kananda Juniper Networks 1
#23 Terry N. Olney Thermo Fisher 1
#23 Carl W. Gowan 1
#23 Chester Calma 1
#23 Mohan Ramankutty Swisslog Logistics 1
#23 Gina M Fredrickson Juvalips 1
#23 Patrick Kien Tran Chargepoint 1
#23 Vladimir Nagorny Applied Materials 1
#23 Narayanan Bharath Quantenna Communications 1
#23 Yinmin Wang Lawrence Livermore National Security 1
#23 Mark J. Wihl Kla Instruments 1
#23 Gordon E. Mosby 1
#23 Guillermo A. Garza 1
#23 Frank Reinhardt Alta Devices 1
#23 Michael Armer Lam Research 1

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