Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Berkeley, CA ranks #86 worldwide for total patents filed in 2020, with 1,475 patents from 731 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Berkeley, CA include University of California, Basf Se, Spin Memory. That works out to 11.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 731 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Jennifer A. Doudna University of California 19
2 Martin Jinek University of California 15
3 Ulrich Mueller Basf Se 14
3 Marcin Gajek Spin Memory 14
#5 Jeroen Van Rotterdam Open Text 13
#6 Charles Almy Ojjo 11
#6 Eric A. Hudson Lam Research 11
#8 Harry J. Saddler Apple 10
#8 Stephen Joseph DiVerdi Adobe 10
#8 Andrew Chung Salesforce 10
#11 Richard A. Muller Deep Isolation 9
#11 Arie Tzvieli Facense 9
#11 Bruce D. Katz Polyplus Battery 9
#11 Shelten Gee Jao Yuen Google 9
#11 Yevgeniy S. Nimon Polyplus Battery 9
#11 Steven J. Visco Polyplus Battery 9
#17 Giovanni Gozzini Apple 8
#17 Mark Wade Ayar Labs 8
#17 Peter Dunker Roku 8
#17 William Glaser Grabango 8
#17 Vitaliy Nimon Polyplus Battery 8
#17 Yu Du Abb Schweiz Ag 8
#17 Ben Covington Enlitic 8
#24 Zafar Rafii Gracenote 7
#24 Pierre Indermuhle Twist Bioscience 7
#24 Anirudh Viswanathan Here Global B.V. 7
#24 Jacob J. Plattner Anacor Pharmaceuticals 7
#24 Robert T. Knight The Nielsen Company (Us) 7
#24 Brian Daniel Amerige Meta 7
#24 Chen Sun Ayar Labs 7
#24 Jay D. Keasling University of California 7
#32 Ramachandran Gurumoorthy The Nielsen Company (Us) 6
#32 Martin A. Turon Google 6
#32 Gregory David Meess Autodesk 6
#32 Anantha Pradeep The Nielsen Company (Us) 6
#32 Vinod Valloppillil Dropbox 6
#32 Steven G. Herbst Apple 6
#32 Scott Goodfriend Salesforce 6
#32 John Almeida Unoweb 6
#32 David Leo Wright Hall Microsoft 6
#32 Keen McEwan Browne Microsoft 6
#32 Mark Isaac Hammond Bonsai Ai 6
#32 Manu Seth Locix 6
#32 Zeev Neumeier Inscape Data 6
#32 Daniel Lami Goldstein Lyft 6
#46 Andrew V. Hill Kla-Tencor 5
#46 Zihan Hans Liu Cognex 5
#46 Elizabeth Shriberg Sri International 5
#46 Christopher Hockenbrocht Leapyear Technologies 5
#46 Kim Huard Pfizer 5

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