Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Albany, CA ranks #997 worldwide for total patents filed in 2019, with 154 patents from 82 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Albany, CA include Lam Research, IBM, Chevron. That works out to 7.6 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 Alexei Marakhtanov Lam Research 8
2 Ping Zhang IBM 6
2 Yihua Zhang Chevron 6
#4 Chih-Jen Lee Sling Media L.L.C. 5
#4 Matthew Burger Novartis Ag 5
#6 Vahid Vahedi Lam Research 4
#6 Giorgio Regni Scality, S.A. 4
#6 David Horsley Chirp Microsystems 4
#6 Kent Karlsson Mobitv 4
#6 Geoffrey Oxholm Adobe 4
#11 Jesse Rosen Zeltiq Aesthetics 3
#11 Yafei Li BOE 3
#11 Tapan K. Das Chevron 3
#11 Tianying JI Blackberry Limited 3
#11 Golden Gopal Krishna Google 3
#11 Gisele Nishiguchi Novartis Ag 3
#11 Christopher BROWN Pfizer 3
#18 Jaechoon Chon Here Global B.V. 2
#18 Gilad Mishne Twitter 2
#18 Bria Selhorst Ebay 2
#18 Ali Heydari NVIDIA 2
#18 Aaron Julin Ekso Bionics Holdings 2
#18 Meng-Hsiung Kiang Chirp Microsystems 2
#18 Dongjin Seo University of California 2
#18 Joseph S. Bair University Of Illinois 2
#18 Kumaraswamy Emayan Intermune 2
#18 Jiachen LI Honda Motor Co. 2
#18 Alexis Angelidis Disney 2
#18 Matthew Oshry [24]7.Ai 2
#18 John Osvald Zynga 2
#18 John M. Trenkle Adobe 2
#18 Zhiyuan Yang Eureka Therapeutics 2
#18 Alan Williams Affymetrix 2
#18 Vincent Michael Patella Carl Zeiss Meditec Ag 2
#18 Bjorn Steven Hori Apple 2
#36 Sarah M. McWhirter Chinook Therapeutics 1
#36 Peter Lincroft Tanium 1
#36 Cristiana Guiducci Dynavax Technologies 1
#36 Tarek Khoury Smart Wires 1
#36 Lulu Cheng Intuit 1
#36 Erik Stauber R2 Technologies 1
#36 Radwan Kiwan Dynavax Technologies 1
#36 M. Jimena Loureiro Bruker Cellular Analysis 1
#36 Wesley M. Jackson University of California 1
#36 Kyu Taek Cho Hyundai Motor 1
#36 Dong Woo Paeng Samsung 1
#36 Felippe Jose Pavinatto Meta 1
#36 James Barnaby Trager Nkarta 1
#36 Robert Azevedo Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. 1
#36 Richard E. Brown Usv Pharmaceutical 1

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