Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Albany, CA ranks #766 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 188 patents from 105 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Albany, CA include IBM, BOE, Chirp Microsystems. That works out to 9.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 105 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Ping Zhang IBM 14
2 Yafei Li BOE 10
3 David Horsley Chirp Microsystems 5
3 Zachary Coffman Sultan Salesforce 5
3 Kratarth Goel Zoox 5
3 Yihua Zhang Chevron 5
3 Alexei Marakhtanov Lam Research 5
3 Jesse Lefkowitz Google 5
#9 Gregory Kurtzer Ctrl Iq 4
#10 Xiangdong Jin Disney 3
#10 John M. Trenkle Adobe 3
#10 Paul T. Mumma Cerego Japan Kabushiki Kaisha 3
#10 Christopher BROWN Pfizer 3
#10 Houman Meshkin Meta 3
#10 Ellen H. Fiss Roche Molecular Systems 3
#10 Jesse Rosen Zeltiq Aesthetics 3
#17 Kumaraswamy Emayan Intermune 2
#17 Steven Kraft Ojjo 2
#17 Geoffrey Oxholm Adobe 2
#17 Phillip J. Milner University of California 2
#17 Jian Luo Ngm Biopharmaceuticals 2
#17 Steven M. Edgar Zymergen 2
#17 Tianying JI Blackberry Limited 2
#17 Zhong-Yi Jin Zhejiang Jike Industry & Trade Co. 2
#17 William E. Allen Caterpillar 2
#17 Gilad Mishne Twitter 2
#17 Stanislav Roumiantsev Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 2
#17 Sarvagya Vaish Cobalt Robotics 2
#17 Vivek Chawda Amazon 2
#17 Zamira A. Daw Perez Goodrich 2
#17 Sergey Vichik Loon 2
#17 Lisa ALEXANDER Metagenomi 2
#17 James Barnaby Trager Nkarta 2
#17 Sarah M. McWhirter Chinook Therapeutics 2
#17 Erik Stauber R2 Technologies 2
#17 Samuel Lowell Dunscombe Intematix 2
#37 Bjorn Steven Hori Apple 1
#37 Zhongsheng Luo Nanosys 1
#37 Mohammad Keshavarzi Autodesk 1
#37 Lulu Cheng Intuit 1
#37 Radwan Kiwan Dynavax Technologies 1
#37 Wallace H. Yokoyama USDA 1
#37 Thuy T. Nguyen Bear Flag Robotics 1
#37 Zhengyan Lun University of California 1
#37 Jun-Chau Chien Stanford University 1
#37 Giorgio Regni Scality, S.A. 1
#37 Alex A. Kurzhanskiy Iteris 1
#37 Peter Lincroft Tanium 1
#37 Frederick W. Duewer Xradia 1
#37 Hugh Salamon 1

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