Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Belmont, CA ranks #198 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 669 patents from 344 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Belmont, CA include IBM, Apple, Broadcom. That works out to 23.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 344 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Mu Qiao IBM 14
2 Carlo Di Nallo Apple 10
3 Dev Nag Broadcom 9
3 Bryant Garcia Murata Manufacturing Co. 9
3 Guangjie Ren IBM 9
#6 Philipp Thomas Unterbrunner Snowflake 8
#7 Xiaohui Du Amgen 7
#7 Michael Singer Heartflow 7
#7 Caelan G. Stack Apple 7
#10 Qiaosong Wang Ebay 6
#10 Thomas B. Ottoboni Heron Therapeutics 6
#10 Christopher R. Carlson Intuitive Surgical 6
#10 Christopher Hess Pdf Solutions 6
#10 Srinath Shankar Snowflake 6
#10 Michael Binnard Nikon 6
#16 Benjamin G. Jackson Apple 5
#16 Wesley Dong Nvent Services Gmbh 5
#16 Mimi Trinh Fitterer Boston Scientific Scimed 5
#16 Scott Patrick Campbell Gopro 5
#16 Jose Ignacio Echevarria Vallespi Adobe 5
#16 Jonathan M. Sorger Intuitive Surgical 5
#16 Harold Henry Chaput Electronic Arts 5
#16 Lila Fakhraie Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 5
#16 Jeffrey William Pasternack Microsoft 5
#16 Tae Eun Choe Baidu Usa 5
#26 Pierre St. Hilaire Magic Leap 4
#26 Benjamin Robert Fredrickson Auris Health 4
#26 Patrick Christopher Leger Verdant Robotics 4
#26 Jonathan Betts-LaCroix Vium 4
#26 Christopher R. Hauf Kateeva 4
#26 Stepan Moskovchenko Gopro 4
#26 Sharad Singhal HP 4
#26 Eric Goldfarb Acclarent 4
#26 Sanchay Harneja Cisco 4
#26 Dominik Vltavsky Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 4
#26 Peter Abrams Insigna 4
#26 Seid Alireza Razavi Majomard Disney 4
#26 George Mathew Lsi 4
#26 Dov Zimring Google 4
#26 Taylor Joseph Cone Verb Surgical 4
#26 Ayrookaran J. Poulose Danisco Us 4
#26 Wen-Chen YEH Amgen 4
#26 Kevin Michael Coakley Cellink 4
#26 Nicholas J. Bryan Adobe 4
#45 Damien Berget Synaptics Incorporated 3
#45 Jieyi Wang Abbott 3
#45 Ravishankar Arivazhagan Salesforce 3
#45 Matthew Roelle Mainspring Energy 3
#45 Justin N. Smith Applied Underwriters 3
#45 Philip McDonnell Google 3

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