Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Berkeley, CA ranks #91 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 1,391 patents from 727 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Berkeley, CA include University of California, Here Global B.V., Beijing Voyager Technology Co.. That works out to 11.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 727 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Jennifer A. Doudna University of California 19
2 Anirudh Viswanathan Here Global B.V. 18
3 Youmin Wang Beijing Voyager Technology Co. 17
#4 Ulrich Mueller Basf Se 16
#5 Stephen Joseph DiVerdi Adobe 13
#6 Anish Mittal Here Global B.V. 12
#6 Ben Covington Enlitic 12
#6 Jeroen Van Rotterdam Open Text 12
#9 Martin Jinek University of California 10
#9 Wilson Harron Gracenote 10
#11 Dewey Ho Lee Gracenote 9
#11 Janos Kirz Sigray 9
#11 Barrett Fox Meta 9
#11 Andrew Chung Salesforce 9
#15 Anantha Pradeep The Nielsen Company (Us) 8
#15 Yu Du Abb Schweiz Ag 8
#15 Fang I. Hsiao Cisco 8
#15 David Leo Wright Hall Microsoft 8
#15 Zeev Neumeier Inscape Data 8
#15 Giovanni Gozzini Apple 8
#15 Peter Dunker Roku 8
#22 Ethan ESCOWITZ Arris Composites 7
#22 Andrew V. Hill Kla-Tencor 7
#22 Charles Almy Ojjo 7
#22 Jeffrey Scott Gracenote 7
#26 Gergely T. Zimanyi Neurolens 6
#26 Shelten Gee Jao Yuen Google 6
#26 Robert T. Knight The Nielsen Company (Us) 6
#26 Esteban Leon Duque Juul Labs 6
#26 Richard A. Muller Deep Isolation 6
#26 Thomas Treynor Zymergen 6
#26 Sergey Levine Google 6
#26 William J. Zeng Rigetti & Co 6
#26 Benjamin J. Feldman Abbott 6
#35 Paul Daniel Donohoue Caribou Biosciences 5
#35 Ramachandran Gurumoorthy The Nielsen Company (Us) 5
#35 David Rabuka Redwood Bioscience 5
#35 Gregory Stephen Lewis Aerosol Dynamics 5
#35 John Robert Waldeisen Lucira Health 5
#35 John Provine Google 5
#35 John Robert Coates Cisco 5
#35 Michelle Munson Eluvio 5
#35 Rob Honeycutt Snik 5
#35 Jesse Collins Salesforce 5
#35 Dillon Harding Miles Arcus Biosciences 5
#35 John Heck Intel 5
#35 Katherine Pfeiffer 10X Genomics 5
#35 David Woolsey Adobe 5
#35 Arie Tzvieli Facense 5
#50 Elena Stephanie Stumm Zoox 4

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