Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Berkeley, CA ranks #96 worldwide for total patents filed in 2019, with 1,331 patents from 684 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Berkeley, CA include University of California, Lam Research, Open Text. That works out to 10.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 684 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Jennifer A. Doudna University of California 24
2 Eric A. Hudson Lam Research 23
3 Martin Jinek University of California 18
#4 Jeroen Van Rotterdam Open Text 15
#4 Marcin Gajek Spin Memory 15
#6 Anish Mittal Here Global B.V. 14
#6 Ulrich Mueller Basf Se 14
#6 Shelten Gee Jao Yuen Google 14
#9 Janos Kirz Sigray 11
#10 Noah Balmer Vitec Holdings Italia Srl 10
#11 Zeev Neumeier Inscape Data 9
#11 Wayne Spevak Plexxikon 9
#11 Jesse Collins Salesforce 9
#14 Michael Plitkins Google 8
#14 Andrew V. Hill Kla-Tencor 8
#14 Jay D. Keasling University of California 8
#17 Mohit Singh Seeo 7
#17 Judith Campisi Buck Institute For Research On Aging 7
#17 Arie Tzvieli Facense 7
#17 Kurt Amundson Ekso Bionics Holdings 7
#17 Wonyoung Kim Lion Semiconductor 7
#17 Charles Almy Ojjo 7
#23 David Rabuka Redwood Bioscience 6
#23 Robert T. Knight The Nielsen Company (Us) 6
#23 Keith A. McMillen Bebop Sensors 6
#23 Hans F. Valencia Boston Scientific Scimed 6
#23 Benjamin J. Feldman Abbott 6
#23 William J. Zeng Rigetti & Co 6
#23 Giovanni Gozzini Apple 6
#23 Christopher Hockenbrocht Leapyear Technologies 6
#23 Fang I. Hsiao Cisco 6
#23 Stephen Joseph DiVerdi Adobe 6
#23 Ishaan Nerurkar Leapyear Technologies 6
#23 Andrew Chung Salesforce 6
#35 Richard A. Muller Deep Isolation 5
#35 Daniel Liu 5
#35 Harry J. Saddler Apple 5
#35 Joseph Duggan Meta 5
#35 Daniel James Yeager Verily Life Sciences 5
#35 Gergely T. Zimanyi Neurolens 5
#35 Jason Taylor Meta 5
#35 Benjamin Rupert Blue Current 5
#35 Alan Francis Lyon Sigray 5
#35 Thomas Taira Truecar 5
#35 Mark A. Wilcutts Tula Etechnology 5
#35 Scott Hotes Wavemarket 5
#35 Adam Zoss Ekso Bionics Holdings 5
#35 Timothy W. Abraham Cargill, Incorporated 5
#35 Martin A. Turon Google 5
#50 William Jayang Sun Microsoft 4

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