Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Emeryville, CA ranks #613 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 227 patents from 142 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Emeryville, CA include Gracenote, 4D Molecular Therapeutics, Google. That works out to 17.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 142 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Aneesh Vartakavi Gracenote 6
2 Melissa Kotterman 4D Molecular Therapeutics 5
3 Javier L. Prieto Google 4
3 Homayoon Kazerooni University of California 4
3 Sara da Luz Areosa Cleto 4
3 Robert Stanley Smith Rigetti & Co 4
3 David H. Kirn 4D Molecular Therapeutics 4
#8 Keith J. Breinlinger Berkeley Lights 3
#8 Ryan Stafford Sutro Biopharma 3
#8 Katousha Ghaemi Nouri Stasher 3
#8 Randall D. Lowe, Jr. Berkeley Lights 3
#8 Andres Felipe Osorio Utvate 3
#8 Nicholas Ohler Amyris 3
#8 Shilin Zhu WARF 3
#8 Gautham Ramesh 8Me Nova 3
#8 Irene Min Choi Howmedica Osteonics 3
#8 Timmy Chau 23Andme 3
#8 Suresh Jeyachandran Canon 3
#8 Jeff Zens Levi Strauss & 3
#20 Sergey Gorbaty Salesforce 2
#20 Lishan Zhao Cargill, Incorporated 2
#20 Evan Shaw Snap 2
#20 Rose KANTOR Metagenomi 2
#20 Colin Scott Maxwell Zymergen 2
#20 Jung Ook Hong Google 2
#20 Solomon STONEBLOOM Zymergen 2
#20 Jonathan Mark WEINSTOCK Caastle 2
#20 Willbe Ho Novvi 2
#20 Samir Ketema Salesforce 2
#20 Angelo Carpinelli Stasher 2
#20 Kathleen Fischer Nano Precision Medical 2
#20 Christopher Vance Haire Zynga 2
#20 John A. Tenney Restoration Robotics 2
#20 Audra DEVOTO Metagenomi 2
#20 Hanxiao JIANG Amyris 2
#20 Mandana Veiseh Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 2
#20 Terrin Eager Sg Gaming 2
#20 Kei Tsuji Mizuno 2
#20 Aymerick Guillaume Eudes University of California 2
#20 Zhe Jia BMW 2
#20 Adam Leon Meadows Amyris 2
#20 Rahul P. Sathe Intel 2
#20 Benjamin H. Ellis Sauce Labs 2
#20 Jennifer Fredlund Zymergen 2
#20 Casper Lützhøft Christensen 2
#20 Atul A. Salvekar Qualcomm 2
#20 Eamon Han O'Connor Avegant 2
#20 Robyn M. Barfield Redwood Bioscience 2
#20 Brian Dougherty Aqua Metals 2
#20 Dan Goldwater Sunfolding 2

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