Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Millbrae, CA ranks #838 worldwide for total patents filed in 2020, with 184 patents from 92 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Millbrae, CA include Google, Magic Leap, Capital One Services. That works out to 7.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 92 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Jung Geun Tak Google 11
1 Mark Baerenrodt Magic Leap 11
1 David Harrison Silver Google 11
#4 Lisa Whitsitt Capital One Services 9
#5 Charles J. Migos Apple 5
#5 Timo Mertens Google 5
#5 Ravi Saxena Pacific Biosciences Of California 5
#5 Richard L. Mackman Gilead Sciences 5
#9 Robert Murray McKinnell Theravance 4
#9 Liam Damewood Leapyear Technologies 4
#11 Zidong Yang Cisco 3
#11 Richard Lee Nuccitelli Pulse Biosciences 3
#11 Christopher J. Kirk Onyx Therapeutics 3
#11 John Douglas Steinberg Ecofactor 3
#11 Michael Chang Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#11 Moritz Boecker Zoox 3
#11 Xiaoming Shen Nektar Therapeutics 3
#18 Karl Willis Autodesk 2
#18 Pamela Nuccitelli Pulse Biosciences 2
#18 Betty Chan Li Ngm Biopharmaceuticals 2
#18 Yandong Mao Finisar 2
#18 Thomas Zou LG 2
#18 Louis D. Fielder Dolby Laboratories Licensing 2
#18 Justine Kao Apple 2
#18 Shaun Tungseth Google 2
#18 Shreya Uchil Mocana 2
#18 Wyne P. LEE Genentech 2
#18 Robert A. Lazarus Genentech 2
#18 Edward Gordon Durney 2
#18 Terry Paul Rodery, Jr. Cloudflare 2
#18 Reed Morse Google 2
#18 Kevin B. Charles Jumpsport 2
#18 Michael Cohn 2
#18 Jonathan Carver Providence Medical Technology 2
#18 Daniel Bucks Vizuri Health Sciences 2
#36 Andrii Iasynetskyi Uber Technologies 1
#36 David Purdy Uber Technologies 1
#36 Joseph Fraher Aerohive Networks 1
#36 Lester Gilbert Cottle, III Microsoft 1
#36 Stanley Ho Cisco 1
#36 Gayle Misle Unknown 1
#36 Daniel Nathanson Symphony Communication Services Holdings 1
#36 James Andya Genentech 1
#36 Tom Chang IBM 1
#36 Ali Rezafard Opswat 1
#36 Jean Luo Snap 1
#36 Yee-Chun Lee Unknown 1
#36 Nils Kuepper Audi Ag 1
#36 Francois Chaubard Focal Systems 1
#36 John Carlton Ware Zynga 1

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