Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Lafayette, CA ranks #847 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 174 patents from 89 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Lafayette, CA include Verizon, Micron, Bio-Rad Laboratories. That works out to 6.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 89 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Arda Aksu Verizon 11
2 Roy Meade Micron 8
3 Darren Roy Link Bio-Rad Laboratories 7
3 Erik Jedediah Dean Zymergen 7
#5 James J. Devlin Celera 5
#5 Albert Shane Google 5
#5 Linda Avey 23Andme 5
#5 John Hughes Adobe 5
#9 Diane C. Salmon Visa 4
#9 Hongjun Song Florida State University 4
#9 Peter Webber Align Technology 4
#9 Carine Hoarau Tc1 4
#9 Michael Edward James Paterson Amazon 4
#14 Laurie Bigler AT&T 3
#14 Lewis James Marggraff Kinoo 3
#14 Nathan C. Freeling Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#17 Casey John Ellis 2
#17 Peter Emtage Cell Design Labs 2
#17 Daniel Almonacid Ubiome 2
#17 Gary Michael Hoversten Chevron 2
#17 Bret Steven Taylor Google 2
#17 Michael J. E. Spicer IBM 2
#17 Yuri Khidekel Identix Incorporated 2
#17 Subramaniam Venkatraman Google 2
#17 David B. Tuckerman Intellectual Ventures 2
#17 Jacob Marshall Sunpower 2
#17 Georgeta Masson Osram Opto Semiconductors Gmbh 2
#17 Jason Martin Stitch Fix 2
#17 Siddharth Singh Microsoft 2
#17 Gavin F. Wyatt-Mair Alcoa 2
#17 Pierre Barlier Keepcool Usa 2
#17 Robert E. Brown Sony 2
#17 Lutgard C. De Jonghe Polyplus Battery 2
#17 Kevin Yasumura Google 2
#17 Nadav Friedmann Xoma 2
#36 Susan E. Celniker University of California 1
#36 Sean S. Hamidi Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 1
#36 James Henry Hatton Southwest Research Institute 1
#36 Jay M. Fanelli 1
#36 Yasaman Baiani Google 1
#36 Nathan Pacyga Kabam, 1
#36 Samuel Shrauger Visa 1
#36 Konrad E. Meissner Atlas Pacific Engineering 1
#36 John Diemer Reckitt Benckiser 1
#36 Thaddeus Beier Dolby Laboratories Licensing 1
#36 Koraljka Rade-Kukic Societe Des Produits Nestle S.A. 1
#36 Craig Latimer X Development 1
#36 Milos Hasan Adobe 1
#36 Brett Cryer Elixir Medical 1
#36 Richard B Pool Pro-Troll 1

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