Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Sacramento, CA ranks #513 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 268 patents from 173 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Sacramento, CA include Micron, Intel, Verily Life Sciences. That works out to 0.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 173 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Samuel E. Bradshaw Micron 18
2 Josh B. Mastronarde Intel 9
3 Peter Howard Smith Verily Life Sciences 7
#4 Bill Copes Hm.Clause 6
#5 Angel A. Penilla Emerging Automotive 5
#5 Brian Wares Sunpower 5
#7 Joshua Dale Howard 4
#7 Nicholas A. McCrory IBM 4
#7 Ildefonso M. Resuello, Jr. Cricut 4
#10 Daniel Jewell 3
#10 Katarina Bouma Toyota 3
#10 Michael Sean Day Trane International 3
#10 Jonathan Hartman Lawrence Livermore National Security 3
#10 Mykola Masalitin S.V.V. Technology Innovations 3
#10 Saikat Mandal Intel 3
#10 Adrien P. Cote Xerox 3
#17 Swantje Behnken Covestro Deutschland Ag 2
#17 Greg G. Mitchell Sa Photonics 2
#17 Benjamin L. GOLOMB Bayer Cropscience 2
#17 Charles Lang Aerosonic 2
#17 Nili KARMON Sync-Rx 2
#17 Trismardawi Tanadi Micron 2
#17 Paul D. Hoeprich, Jr. Lawrence Livermore National Security 2
#17 Arthur Muir Fong, III Zymergen 2
#17 John Joseph Innomed Technologies 2
#17 Patrick Harrington Walmart Apollo 2
#17 Stephen Wu Netapp 2
#17 James Longoria Lc Therapeutics 2
#17 Tarek Joobeur Seminis Vegetable Seeds 2
#17 Timothy St. John Redmond Advanced Elemental Technologies 2
#17 Sanket Mishra University Of Kansas 2
#17 Kit W. Spelman Balanced Body 2
#17 Howard Neil Rourke Phyzhon Health 2
#17 Ivan Kruts Goodrich 2
#17 Blane J. Goettle 2
#17 Ken Endelman Balanced Body 2
#17 Brett McBrayer Novozymes 2
#17 Audie Tatum 2
#17 Paul A. Feldstein University of California 2
#17 Mary Allison Goodman Sk Hynix Nand Product Solutions 2
#17 Ian Dixon Unknown 2
#17 Steven M. Watkins Children'S Hospital & Research Center At Oakland 2
#17 Jumie Yuventi Katerra 2
#17 Andrew Hancock Johnson & Johnson 2
#45 Adrian T. DeWald Hill Engineering 1
#45 Michael Kiesel Siemens Mobility Gmbh 1
#45 Christopher Kreulen Arthrex 1
#45 Michael C. Lorek 1
#45 Ryan Miller Ceres 1
#45 Giovanni Mazzeo Cypress Semiconductor 1

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