Top Inventors in Pleasanton, CA — 2020

Pleasanton, CA ranks #72 worldwide for total patents filed in 2020, with 1,704 patents from 689 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Pleasanton, CA include Qualcomm, Central Glass Company, Limited, Cisco. That works out to 21.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 689 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Sudhir Kumar Baghel	Qualcomm	43
2	James L. Hedrick	Central Glass Company, Limited	29
3	Sanjay Kumar Hooda	Cisco	21
3	Zhanjie Li	Western Digital Technologies	21
3	Jorge Bernate	Inscripta	21
#6	Sompong Paul Olarig	Samsung	19
#7	Kevin Ness	10X Genomics	18
#8	Nag B. Patibandla	Applied Materials	16
#9	Sudheer A. Grandhi	Interdigital Technology	15
#9	Leonid Burakovsky	Palo Alto Networks	15
#11	Rajinder Dhindsa	Lam Research	14
#11	Xiaodong Duan	Ankon Medical Technologies (Shanghai) Co.	14
#11	Sachin Gopaldas Totale	Emc Ip Holding Company	14
#11	Ramdas P. Kachare	Samsung	14
#11	Sivananda K. Kanakasabapathy	IBM	14
#16	Bipin Sahni	Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.	13
#17	Zhengye Liu	AT&T	12
#17	Benjamin Hindson	10X Genomics	12
#17	Michael P. Wallace	Stryker	12
#17	Jianxiong Shi	Apple	12
#21	Arun Raghupathy	Apple	11
#21	Rajiv Bharadwaj	10X Genomics	11
#21	John Freddy Hansen	Tc1	11
#21	Christopher Hindson	10X Genomics	11
#21	Michael R. Rice	Applied Materials	11
#26	Benjamin H. Maughan	Rovi Guides	10
#26	Patrick Faith	Visa	10
#26	Bartlomiej Adam Kardasz	Spin Memory	10
#29	Kaushal Bansal	Nicira	9
#29	Michael L. Green	Abbott	9
#29	Jason H. Harper	Invently Automotive	9
#29	Ozgur Aktas	Qromis	9
#29	Shahid Rauf	Applied Materials	9
#29	Allan Thomson	Cisco	9
#35	Abhishek Ranjan Singh	Cisco	8
#35	Jonathan Huang	Intel	8
#35	Shuai Hao	AT&T	8
#35	Ganesha Batta	Amazon	8
#35	Sandeep Bishnoi	Oracle	8
#40	Chyu-Jiuh Torng	Headway Technologies	7
#40	Kellen Christopher Smalley	Kabam,	7
#40	Hong Fu	Amo Development	7
#40	Neelesh Nandkumar Sarawate	GE	7
#40	Kumar Balachandran	Ericsson	7
#40	Andrew D. Bailey, III	Lam	7
#40	Siva Kanakasabapathy	IBM	7
#40	Taeseok Kim	Sunpower	7
#40	Lakshmi Narasimha Murthy Nukala	Apple	7
#40	Thomas R. Jenkins	Acclarent	7
#40	Konstantine Karavakis	Tessera	7

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