Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Oakland, CA ranks #72 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 1,722 patents from 882 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Oakland, CA include Apple, Abbott, Cisco. That works out to 3.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 882 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Marcos Alonso Ruiz Apple 20
2 Gary Alan Hayter Abbott 18
3 Christopher Madden Pride Cisco 16
#4 Stefan Marti Harman International Industries, Incorporated 15
#4 Dustin Garvey Oracle 15
#6 Robinson Piramuthu Ebay 14
#7 Brian Barnett Comcast 12
#7 Jonathan Maltz Shanghai United Imaging Healthcare Co. 12
#7 Avi Bar-Zeev Microsoft 12
#10 Samuel Mason Curry Abbott 11
#10 Christopher Hibmacronan Juul Labs 11
#12 David S. Hall Velodyne Lidar Usa 10
#12 Riley Reese Arris Composites 10
#12 Monika E. Gromek Apple 10
#12 Hany Basam Eitouni Seeo 10
#16 Eugene Berdichevsky Sila Nanotechnologies 9
#16 Davide Di Censo Harman International Industries, Incorporated 9
#16 Paul Vittimberga Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 9
#16 Michael Ross Massucco Hydrapak 9
#16 Nicholas Christian Mealy Cisco 9
#21 Matthew David Day X Development 8
#21 Zhanwei Chen Here Global B.V. 8
#21 Gary M. Zalewski Sony 8
#24 Alexander W. Au Apple 7
#24 Sarina Godin Anisa International 7
#24 Jesse Aaron Richmond Apple 7
#24 Micah Wind Russo Quanata 7
#24 Su Chuin Leong Google 7
#24 Yameng Lee Thorp Google 7
#24 Sripal S. Mehta Dolby Laboratories Licensing 7
#24 Rajarshi Gupta Qualcomm 7
#32 Trevor James Bliss Salesforce 6
#32 Yuan-Sheng Fang Kepler Computing 6
#32 Alexander Weiss Pax Labs 6
#32 Shawn Manchester Zymergen 6
#32 Mathew Wilson Inc Square, Co. 6
#32 John Arlan Brock Salesforce 6
#32 Katherine Gora Zymergen 6
#39 Jeffrey R. Long University of California 5
#39 Rebecca J. Nikolic Lawrence Livermore National Security 5
#39 Brian James Adzima Holo 5
#39 Thomas Fanghaenel Salesforce 5
#39 Christopher M. Spadaccini Lawrence Livermore National Security 5
#39 Susan Jane Beidler Oracle 5
#39 Serge Saxonov 10X Genomics 5
#39 Joyce Hsu Meta 5
#39 Crx K. Chai Opentv 5
#39 Serban Simu Eluvio 5
#39 Wisam Dakka Snap 5
#39 Gregory A. Smith Nutanix 5

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