Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Alameda, CA ranks #405 worldwide for total patents filed in 2020, with 376 patents from 184 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Alameda, CA include Dolby Laboratories Licensing, Kitty Hawk, Intuitive Surgical. That works out to 4.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 184 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Alan J. Seefeldt Dolby Laboratories Licensing 17
2 Damon Vander Lind Kitty Hawk 13
3 Theodore W. Rogers Intuitive Surgical 8
#4 Michael C. Johnson Locus Robotics 7
#4 Joe Delone Venters Google 7
#6 Peter Sturt Lynn Other Lab 6
#6 Francesco Aieta Leia 6
#8 Alexander Mastroianni Thermo Fisher 5
#8 Prasad Peddada Salesforce 5
#8 Elliot Jaramillo Concept Clean Energy 5
#8 Nathan de Vries Apple 5
#8 Timothy Stowe Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated 5
#8 Alexander Seitz Schuler Pressen Gmbh 5
#8 Zenghe Liu Abbott 5
#8 Christopher A. Robinette Nike 5
#8 Nino V. Marino Caavo 5
#17 Winson Chu Procore Technologies 4
#17 John T. Felts Sio2 Medical Products 4
#17 Gabriel Thurston Sibley Verdant Robotics 4
#17 Jose M. Carmena University of California 4
#17 Gary E. L. Brandt Theravance Biopharma R&D Ip 4
#17 Mitchell Kline Chirp Microsystems 4
#17 Henry M. Bowles Predictive Safety Srp 4
#17 Peter B. Laxton E Ink California 4
#25 Wesley Scott Harper Abbott 3
#25 Christopher Michael Lew Chevron 3
#25 Alexander Chan Vital Connect 3
#25 Andreas Stolcke Microsoft 3
#25 Indranil De Pdf Solutions 3
#25 Kenneth Choi Dropbox 3
#25 Jeremy Edelblut Google 3
#25 David P. Saracino Apple 3
#25 Richard J. Rikoski Hadal 3
#25 Philip J. Lee Emd Millipore 3
#25 Seton Schiraga 3
#25 Raghuram Narayan Intel 3
#25 Mark S. Vinton Dolby Laboratories Licensing 3
#25 Winfield Scott Fisher Vascular Pathways 3
#25 James R. Collette Amazon 3
#25 Russell Petersen Elemental Led 3
#25 William Don Harriman Crystal Bioscience 3
#25 Patrick W. Ransil Amazon 3
#25 Thomas Phu Sunpower 3
#25 Julian C. Ryde Rosemount Aerospace 3
#25 Dai Duong Doan Salesforce 3
#25 Barbara Frewen Zymergen 3
#47 Brian Matthew Gilmore Cisco 2
#47 Daniel Elliot Schabb Kai Concepts 2
#47 Michael David Hurwitz Aqua Metals 2
#47 Aaron Francis Colfax Petrik Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 2

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