Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Richmond, CA ranks #939 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 158 patents from 91 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Richmond, CA include Sangamo Therapeutics, Lucira Health, Agnetix. That works out to 1.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 91 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Jeffrey C. Miller Sangamo Therapeutics 6
1 Frank B. Myers, III Lucira Health 6
1 Nicholas Maderas Agnetix 6
1 Allen Yang Yang Intel 6
#5 David Paschon Sangamo Therapeutics 5
#5 Edward J. Rebar Sangamo Therapeutics 5
#7 Brett Tom The Procter & Gamble 4
#7 Thomas Laidig Applied Materials 4
#9 Jun Ho Son Kryptos Biotechnologies 3
#9 Imadul Islam Schering 3
#9 Dmitry Y. Guschin Dow Agrosciences 3
#9 Xiao-Song Gong Bio-Rad Laboratories 3
#9 Alexander Katz University of California 3
#9 Randall K. Saiki Roche Molecular Systems 3
#15 Steven Froelich Sangamo Therapeutics 2
#15 Derek Blackwell Chevron 2
#15 Samuel Seth Weisfeld-Filson Pinterest 2
#15 Philip D. Gregory Sangamo Biosciences 2
#15 Robert Tamillow 2
#15 James Au Cisco 2
#15 Mahesh S. Joshi Microsoft 2
#15 David Manton Yvolve Sports Limited 2
#15 Thomas Wechsler Sangamo Therapeutics 2
#15 Gregory J. Cost Sangamo Therapeutics 2
#15 Erich Kai Stephan Pegasus Solar 2
#15 Louis Tamillow 2
#15 Mehdi Nourbakhsh Autodesk 2
#15 Hyunuk Ryu Chevron 2
#15 Andreas Reik Sangamo Therapeutics 2
#15 Peilin Chen Fluidigm 2
#15 Michael C. Holmes Sangamo Biosciences 2
#15 Horacio Trevino Chevron 2
#15 Glenn Harris Pegasus Solar 2
#15 H. Steve Zhang Sangamo Therapeutics 2
#15 Loren Berg Ciena 2
#36 Weiqing Dai Salesforce 1
#36 Leah Anderson Palantir Technologies 1
#36 Dale Ando Sangamo Biosciences 1
#36 Mohsin Roowalla Comcast 1
#36 Alex Potts Leapfrog Enterprises 1
#36 James Hsieh Pegasus Solar 1
#36 Tavis A. Maclellan Google 1
#36 Theresa Liang Gunawan Chevron 1
#36 Yizhuo He Dicon Fiberoptics 1
#36 Alexei Potiagalov Business Objects Software 1
#36 Robin A. Herbert University of California 1
#36 Eric M. Penner 1
#36 Hanh-Phuc Le Lion Semiconductor 1
#36 Stefan Kuzmanovski Tesla 1
#36 Karthik Nithyanandam University of California 1

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