Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Novato, CA ranks #898 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 163 patents from 96 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Novato, CA include Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Kabam, , Dolby Laboratories Licensing. That works out to 3.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 96 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Wayne Barakat Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 9
2 Matthew Curtis Kabam, 6
3 Jeffrey Riedmiller Dolby Laboratories Licensing 5
#4 Kevin R. Cieslak Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 4
#4 Shmuel Silverman Gooee Limited 4
#4 David K. L. Peterson Valencia Technologies 4
#7 Emil D. Kakkis Biomarin Pharmaceutical 3
#7 Stefan Matan Xslent Energy Technologies 3
#7 Kyle Haskins Salesforce 3
#7 Ilya Osipov 3
#7 Yvonne Ho Point Source Audio 3
#7 Marc K. Von Gunten Viavi Solutions 3
#7 Nicholas James Kaoru Kawamoto Cisco 3
#7 Donald Angus Stocks Smith & Fong 3
#7 Jason Pinkstaff Ambrx 3
#7 Valton Smith Viavi Solutions 3
#7 Christopher P. Clausen Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#7 James Lamb Point Source Audio 3
#7 Joseph Weil Nightlight Systems 3
#7 Paul D. Yan Microsoft 3
#21 Steven Kostrzewski Salesforce 2
#21 Jonathan Hewlett Gaf Energy 2
#21 Bong-Kyu Chang Chevron 2
#21 Jennifer Greene Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 2
#21 Chris J. Diederich University of California 2
#21 Lynne Canne Bannen Assembly Biosciences 2
#21 Victor Nguyen Applied Materials 2
#21 Paul Reiche Microsoft 2
#21 Mark Tevis Viavi Solutions 2
#21 Paul Hughes Flexera Software 2
#21 Robert Frederick Ford Microsoft 2
#21 Daniel Schultz Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 2
#21 Sébastien Péhu Walmart Apollo 2
#34 Brian Rose Apple 1
#34 John S. Hickey GE 1
#34 Myles Cagney Sling Media L.L.C. 1
#34 Javier San Martin Kyowa Kirin Co. 1
#34 Stephen S. Dominy Cortexyme 1
#34 Charles A. O'Neill Biomarin Pharmaceutical 1
#34 Zhi Chen Zymogenetics 1
#34 David G. Capper Hasbro 1
#34 Kenneth G. Oetzel Sonic Solutions 1
#34 Melissa McLean Google 1
#34 Kiyoshi Terasawa Ca 1
#34 Kevin Flynn Brooks Automation Gmbh 1
#34 James P. Thompson Ail Systems 1
#34 Jennifer Kelley Instep 1
#34 Shari Aldridge Bam Motion 1
#34 Shubber ALI Centriq Technology 1
#34 Barbara J. Bailus Buck Institute For Research On Aging 1

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