Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Atherton, CA ranks #648 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 218 patents from 85 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Atherton, CA include Heartflow, Amazon, Guardant Health. That works out to 30.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 85 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Charles A. Taylor Heartflow 20
2 Anurag Windlass Gupta Amazon 15
3 AmirAli TALASAZ Guardant Health 14
#4 James F. Dempsey Viewray Technologies 10
#5 Vahid Saadat Usgi Medical 9
#6 Helmy A. Eltoukhy Guardant Health 7
#7 Par Botes Pure Storage 6
#7 Paul Badawi Sight Sciences 6
#9 Keng Lim Apple 5
#9 Steven Ryutaro Takayama Logitech Europe S.A. 5
#11 Jeffrey C. Hawkins Numenta 4
#11 Ardavan Maleki Tehrani Assia Spe 4
#11 Barbara Paldus Finesse Solutions 4
#11 Mojgan Saadat Arrinex 4
#11 Taher Elgamal Salesforce 4
#11 Samir Menon Dexterity 4
#17 John M. Cioffi Adaptive Spectrum And Signal Alignment, Incorporated 3
#17 Nicholas J. Filippi Cisco 3
#17 Thomas B. Neff Fibrogen 3
#17 Lambertus Hesselink Western Digital Technologies 3
#17 David F. Welch Infinera 3
#17 Daniel Walker Merck 3
#23 Roger Kornberg Autonomous Medical Devices 2
#23 Cristina N. Cifuentes Oracle 2
#23 Rory W. Fuerst Kaepa 2
#23 Ashley Manning Still Adobe 2
#23 Adrian Liam Gill Revolution Medicines 2
#23 George Samachisa 2
#23 David Tobin Palantir Technologies 2
#23 William M. Facteau Acclarent 2
#23 Jeffrey C. Smith Smule 2
#23 Rory W. Fuerst Fuerst Group 2
#23 Byoungsok Jung Grail 2
#23 Victor H. Shear Intertrust Technologies 2
#23 Quang Tran Covidien Lp 2
#23 Anatoli B. Stein Guzik Technical Enterprises 2
#23 Bernard Harguindeguy Ping Identity 2
#23 Mansour Salame 8X8 2
#39 Adam M. Driscoll Apple 1
#39 Donald R. James Stauffer Chemical 1
#39 Michael John Beesley Juniper Networks 1
#39 Clayton Woodward Bavor, Jr. Google 1
#39 Paul G. Yock Cardiovascular Imaging Systems 1
#39 Andrew B. Carlson Exaflop 1
#39 Mojan Goshayeshgar Kyphon Sàrl 1
#39 Helen L. Collins Five Prime Therapeutics 1
#39 Neil J. Sheehan Natus Medical Incorporated 1
#39 Neekon Saadat Inquis Medical 1
#39 Thierry Nivaggioli AbbVie 1
#39 Roy Magruder Arista Networks 1

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