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 Promptu Systems, Cisco, Pure Storage. That works out to 11.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 51–100 of 727 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#50 Tim Plowman Promptu Systems 4
#50 Peter W. Gleason Cisco 4
#50 Russell Sears Pure Storage 4
#50 Lijun Wu Forevertek Biotechnology Co. 4
#50 Andrew W. Herson Verizon 4
#50 Susanne Vera Hering Aerosol Dynamics 4
#50 Keith A. McMillen Bebop Sensors 4
#50 Ori Tzvieli Facense 4
#50 Marcin Gajek Spin Memory 4
#50 Mohit Singh Seeo 4
#50 Jeffrey KIM Slingshot Biosciences 4
#50 Freddie Sanchez Dolby Laboratories Licensing 4
#50 Henry Cook Sifive 4
#50 John Almeida Unoweb 4
#50 Andrew-An Truong Luu Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 4
#50 William Glaser Grabango 4
#50 Peter C. DiMaria Gracenote 4
#50 Jacob J. Plattner Anacor Pharmaceuticals 4
#69 Daniel Meir Bruckner Tamr 3
#69 Janice S. Chen University of California 3
#69 Sylvia Ratnasamy Nefeli Networks 3
#69 Mark A. Wilcutts Tula Etechnology 3
#69 David P. Remahl Apple 3
#69 Harish Nataraj Cisco 3
#69 Seth R. Sanders Amber Kinetics 3
#69 Daniel James Yeager Verily Life Sciences 3
#69 Paul A. Roethle Gilead Sciences 3
#69 John Loren Passmore Nanomix 3
#69 Xiaoting Wang Genentech 3
#69 Andy Chung Salesforce 3
#69 Jennifer Winnie Leung Samsara 3
#69 Mark Alan Lemkin Dust Networks 3
#69 Wendy Cousin University of California 3
#69 Michael J. Stone Berkeley Lights 3
#69 Dean Moses Salesforce 3
#69 Tanmoy Dutta National Technology & Engineering Solutions Of Sandia 3
#69 Charles Melvin Aden Arista Networks 3
#69 Harry J. Saddler Apple 3
#69 Mihai Maruseac Leapyear Technologies 3
#69 Romas Alvydas Kudirka Redwood Bioscience 3
#69 Ishaan Nerurkar Leapyear Technologies 3
#69 Jacob Daniel Andreas Microsoft 3
#69 Clay D. Reber Lucira Health 3
#69 Vera Dadok Sift Science 3
#69 Zachary Alexander Salesforce 3
#69 Ashleigh Ward Sila Nanotechnologies 3
#69 Buster Benson Twitter 3
#69 Sean Poust University of California 3
#69 William W. Sprague Apple 3
#69 Markus Sutter University of California 3

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