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Pleasanton, CA 2021

1,504 patents  ·  623 inventors  ·  18.8/1k pop.

Ranked #82 of 43,435 cities Top 1%

Pleasanton, CA ranks #82 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 1,504 patents from 623 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Pleasanton, CA include Qualcomm, Central Glass Company, Limited, Samsung. That works out to 18.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 623 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Sudhir Kumar Baghel Qualcomm 78
2 James L. Hedrick Central Glass Company, Limited 27
3 Sompong Paul Olarig Samsung 25
#4 Stephen Grant Ericsson 20
#5 Ramdas P. Kachare Samsung 18
#5 Nag B. Patibandla Applied Materials 18
#7 Zhengye Liu AT&T 16
#7 Sanjay Kumar Hooda Cisco 16
#9 Patrick Faith Visa 15
#10 Brian M. Pearce Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 14
#10 Jason H. Harper Invently Automotive 14
#12 Bipin Sahni Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 13
#12 Sachin Gopaldas Totale Emc Ip Holding Company 13
#12 Kevin Ness 10X Genomics 13
#15 Michael R. Love Abbott 12
#15 Michael P. Wallace Stryker 12
#15 Sivananda K. Kanakasabapathy IBM 12
#15 Michael R. Rice Applied Materials 12
#19 Zhanjie Li Western Digital Technologies 11
#20 Xiaodong Duan Ankon Medical Technologies (Shanghai) Co. 10
#21 Sudheer A. Grandhi Interdigital Technology 9
#21 Benjamin Hindson 10X Genomics 9
#21 Kellen Christopher Smalley Kabam, 9
#21 Anand Oswal Cisco 9
#21 Jorge Bernate Inscripta 9
#21 Hong Fu Amo Development 9
#27 Kumar Balachandran Ericsson 8
#27 Benjamin H. Maughan Rovi Guides 8
#27 Kaushal Bansal Nicira 8
#27 James McCanna Baxter Healthcare Sa 8
#27 Kambiz Behzadi Unknown 8
#27 Nikhil P. Dani Brita Lp 8
#33 Thomas R. Jenkins Acclarent 7
#33 Rajinder Dhindsa Lam Research 7
#35 Jianxiong Shi Apple 6
#35 Hailey Stewart — 6
#35 Martin Plihal Kla-Tencor 6
#35 Eric P. Meyer Align Technology 6
#35 Abhishek Ranjan Singh Cisco 6
#40 Baofeng Jiang AT&T 5
#40 Weiwei Guo Piconetics 5
#40 Gregory Mirsky Ericsson 5
#40 Vikram Ragukumar Arrcus 5
#40 Loren Chen Rubbermaid Incorporated 5
#40 Kim Han Lee Enovix 5
#40 John Freddy Hansen Tc1 5
#40 James D. Wilcox Enovix 5
#40 Leonid Burakovsky Palo Alto Networks 5
#40 Arun Raghupathy Apple 5
#40 Wei Shen Walmart Apollo 5

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