Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Danville, CA ranks #355 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 400 patents from 194 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Danville, CA include HP, Micron, Apple. That works out to 9.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 194 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Ning Ge HP 20
1 Vladimir Odnoblyudov Micron 20
3 Khaled Mammou Apple 16
#4 Shraboni Jana AT&T 9
#4 Lochan Verma Qualcomm 9
#4 Di Liang Hewlett Packard Enterprise 9
#4 David V. Schaffer University of California 9
#8 Muhammad Umair Tile 7
#9 Beth S. Moss Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 5
#9 Dennis Miloseski Google 5
#9 Sachin Verma Palo Alto Networks 5
#9 Yacov Salomon Salesforce 5
#9 Catherine H. M. Kuo Oracle 5
#9 Michael Epstein Google 5
#15 Amar Gupta Roche Molecular Systems 4
#15 Anup K. Singh Sandia 4
#15 Jian Gong Mgi Tech Co. 4
#15 John Ashley Howmedica Osteonics 4
#15 Stephen D. Vilke Amazon 4
#20 Yalin Hao Chevron 3
#20 Mehdi Asnaashari Micron 3
#20 Michael Smedegaard Google 3
#20 Ranganathan Kanchi Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#20 Hagop Nazarian Crossbar 3
#20 Joel Fraser Atwater X Development 3
#20 Gregory van Buskirk The Clorox 3
#20 Mikhail Popovich Google 3
#20 Michael Houghton Chiron 3
#20 Barry Linder Clarity Medical Systems 3
#20 Emmanuel Laffon de Mazieres Amazon 3
#20 Xiao-Dong Xiang Intematix 3
#20 Sangbong Park 3
#20 Emmet J. Mielbrecht Simpson Strong-Tie Company 3
#20 Jiping Fu Novartis Ag 3
#20 Namvar Kiaie Abbott 3
#20 Michael F. Tomasco Abbott 3
#20 Ahmed Mohammed Shihab Amazon 3
#20 Jeffrey S. Lambertson Streivor 3
#20 Carl Keller Jasper Technologies 3
#40 Renaldi Winoto Disney 2
#40 Steven R. Rados Verizon 2
#40 Ben Tompkins Penumbra 2
#40 Seth Yates Ketch Kloud 2
#40 Michael Margulis Cisco 2
#40 Christopher Metz Cisco 2
#40 Wei Shen Intel 2
#40 Frank Li Hughes Network Systems 2
#40 Vivian Wei Wong Oracle 2
#40 Canhui Ou AT&T 2
#40 Varun Shah Broadcom 2

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