Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Burlingame, CA ranks #259 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 529 patents from 228 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Burlingame, CA include Halliburton Energy Services, Apple, Juul Labs. That works out to 16.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 228 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Burkay Donderici Halliburton Energy Services 40
2 Julian Missig Apple 15
2 Steven Christensen Juul Labs 15
#4 Matthew Fisher Adobe 12
#5 Mohsen Sardari Electronic Arts 11
#6 Christian Kleinerman Snowflake 10
#7 John Bicket Samsara 9
#7 Peter M. Agboh Apple 9
#9 Mohamed Abouelseoud Sony 8
#10 David Thacker Groupon 7
#10 Wei-Jen Huang Cisco 7
#10 Kenneth P. Aron Abaxis 7
#13 Florence W. Ow Apple 6
#13 Peng Cong Medtronic 6
#13 Brett Newman Colgate-Palmolive 6
#13 Pranav Piyush Dropbox 6
#13 Wayne Patterson Tile 6
#18 Austin Lee Smith Walmart Apollo 5
#18 Bryce Gibson Reid Google 5
#18 Mark Rajan Malhotra Google 5
#18 Mrinalini Ravichandran Quadric.Io 5
#18 Huifen Chen Genentech 5
#23 Kunal Prafulla Nabar Snowflake 4
#23 Andrei W. Konradi Elan Pharmaceuticals 4
#23 Gianpaolo Fasoli Apple 4
#23 Rhys Bonahoom Apple 4
#23 Leping Li Presidio Pharmaceuticals 4
#23 Farzad Ghannadian Broadcom 4
#23 Christopher S. Ngai Applied Materials 4
#23 Aman Sikka Quadric.Io 4
#23 Arthur H. Zarnowitz Kensington Microware Limited 4
#23 James G. Taylor Gilead Sciences 4
#23 Colin Allen Wilson Auris Health 4
#23 Aadit Patel Notco Delaware 4
#23 Alexander Q. TILSON Loma Vista Medical 4
#23 Elizabeth M. Bacon Gilead Sciences 4
#23 John A. Flygare Genentech 4
#38 Vickie Hsiao-Wei Tsui Genentech 3
#38 Youngwook Paul Kwon Phantom Ai 3
#38 Simon Kozlov Instrumental 3
#38 Monica F. Caso Coda Project 3
#38 Gene Alston Groupon 3
#38 Robert Daniel Firu Quadric.Io 3
#38 James Bock Wunderlich Salesforce 3
#38 Shawn Ryan Jeffery Groupon 3
#38 Laura Ling Javier Meta 3
#38 Harold Nguyen Proofpoint 3
#38 Conrad R. Carlen Apple 3
#38 Kieran Tobias Levin Meta 3
#38 Chenghung Ker Salesforce 3

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