Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Kensington, CA ranks #1,685 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 80 patents from 39 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Kensington, CA include Chevron, National Technology & Engineering Solutions Of Sandia, Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated. That works out to 14.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–39 of 39 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Cong-Yan Chen Chevron 6
1 Ryan Anderson National Technology & Engineering Solutions Of Sandia 6
3 Marc E. Mosko Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated 5
3 Derek L. Greenfield Genomatica 5
3 Timo Kunkel Dolby Laboratories Licensing 5
3 Ronald Lebofsky Bio-Rad Laboratories 5
#7 Randall E. Cook Gracenote 3
#7 Robert L. Firmin Ocula 3
#9 Paul Emmanuel Quinn Gracenote 2
#9 Alessandro Pinto Goodrich 2
#9 Alexei Stoliartchouk Rewardstyle 2
#9 Vishal Suresh Vaingankar General Motors 2
#9 Adam Beaugh Zignal Labs 2
#9 Daniel S. Rokhsar University of California 2
#9 Robert Kavaler Sensys Networks 2
#9 D. Randall Young Cisco 2
#9 Philip Gach National Technology & Engineering Solutions Of Sandia 2
#9 Ehsan Aryafar Intel 2
#9 David Patterson Google 2
#20 Shayan Farahvash Skyworks Solutions 1
#20 Trevor Caldwell Thorpe 1
#20 Jill Detmer Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics 1
#20 David A. Patterson Intel 1
#20 Roberto Vazquez Amyris 1
#20 Alexander K. Zettl University of California 1
#20 Duke Alan Jones 1
#20 George Herbert Hines General Motors 1
#20 Nameer Hirschkind 1
#20 Hillel Adesnik University of California 1
#20 Azam Mihir Thatte Energy Recovery 1
#20 Stefan Finsterle Deep Isolation 1
#20 Anthony Sokolowski Disney 1
#20 Rahul Iyer Siluria Technologies 1
#20 David Hyman Apple 1
#20 Ariane Van Der Straten Ponthoz Research Triangle Institute 1
#20 Brian Meckler Sling Media L.L.C. 1
#20 Francesco Borrelli Apple 1
#20 Rebecca J. Abergel University of California 1
#20 Perry Anderson Apple 1

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