Fairfield, CA ranks #3,613 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 32 patents from 23 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Fairfield, CA include General Motors, Apple, Seminis Vegetable Seeds. That works out to 0.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.
Showing 1–23 of 23 inventors
| Rank | Inventor | Primary Company | Patents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Timothy Jon Meador | General Motors | 4 |
| 2 | Qigen Ji | Apple | 3 |
| 2 | Eleni Bachlava | Seminis Vegetable Seeds | 3 |
| #4 | Eli A. Hefner | Bio-Rad Laboratories | 2 |
| #4 | Michael Sagan | Koss | 2 |
| #6 | Saleh Elomari | Chevron | 1 |
| #6 | Rosalind Louise Crowley | Unknown | 1 |
| #6 | Bahador Nooraei Beidokht | Groupon | 1 |
| #6 | Leslie McGee | — | 1 |
| #6 | Kevin J. Knob | ExxonMobil | 1 |
| #6 | Jonathan A. Padilla | Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. | 1 |
| #6 | Marek Michalak | New York University | 1 |
| #6 | Mark A. Anderson | Agilent Technologies | 1 |
| #6 | David McKinley | Savant Systems | 1 |
| #6 | Tim Monroe | Cordelia Lighting | 1 |
| #6 | Anthony Michael Cardenas | — | 1 |
| #6 | John Piccolo-Wignall | — | 1 |
| #6 | Karl G. Reimer | Goodrich | 1 |
| #6 | Venkatapathi Raju Nallapa | Ford | 1 |
| #6 | Steve deRosier | Laird Technologies | 1 |
| #6 | Steven McDonald | Goodrich | 1 |
| #6 | Briana Nicole Knight | — | 1 |
| #6 | Joseph Wang | — | 1 |
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