Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Atherton, CA ranks #672 worldwide for total patents filed in 2020, with 226 patents from 90 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Atherton, CA include Amazon, Guardant Health, Heartflow. That works out to 31.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 90 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Anurag Windlass Gupta Amazon 20
2 AmirAli TALASAZ Guardant Health 13
3 Charles A. Taylor Heartflow 12
#4 Keng Lim Apple 10
#5 James F. Dempsey Viewray Technologies 7
#6 Bernard Harguindeguy Ping Identity 6
#7 David Tobin Palantir Technologies 5
#7 Nicholas J. Filippi Cisco 5
#9 John M. Cioffi Adaptive Spectrum And Signal Alignment, Incorporated 4
#9 Taher Elgamal Salesforce 4
#9 Steven Ryutaro Takayama Logitech Europe S.A. 4
#9 Robert C. Gardner Quarkstar 4
#9 Ardavan Maleki Tehrani Assia Spe 4
#9 Quang Tran Covidien Lp 4
#9 Par Botes Pure Storage 4
#9 Andre Kruglikov Oracle 4
#9 Barbara Paldus Finesse Solutions 4
#9 Botao Hu 4
#19 Mark Cummings Morphics Technology 3
#19 Jeffrey C. Smith Smule 3
#19 William M. Facteau Acclarent 3
#19 Bryan D. O'Connor Meta 3
#19 Mojan Goshayeshgar Kyphon Sàrl 3
#19 Ross Koningstein Google 3
#19 N. Parker Willis Ebr Systems 3
#19 Jeffrey C. Hawkins Numenta 3
#19 Victor H. Shear Intertrust Technologies 3
#19 Rory W. Fuerst Fuerst Group 3
#29 Rene Meyer Unity Semiconductor 2
#29 John Freund Arixa Pharmaceuticals 2
#29 Anatoli B. Stein Guzik Technical Enterprises 2
#29 Byoungsok Jung Grail 2
#29 Lambertus Hesselink Western Digital Technologies 2
#29 Derek Collison Pivotal Software 2
#29 Dennis G. Nicholson Adobe 2
#29 Cristina N. Cifuentes Oracle 2
#29 Mansour Salame 8X8 2
#29 Andrew B. Carlson Exaflop 2
#29 Thierry Nivaggioli AbbVie 2
#29 Paul Dabrowski Synthego 2
#29 Vahid Saadat Voyage Medical 2
#29 Samir Menon Dexterity 2
#29 Kristin Noto 2
#29 Paul Badawi Sight Sciences 2
#45 David Fleck Left Lane Network 1
#45 Sara Harrington Microsoft 1
#45 Peter Relan Entrust 1
#45 John Picard 1
#45 Sambhab Thapaliya 1
#45 David Clapper Ulthera 1

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