Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

San Mateo, CA ranks #61 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 1,834 patents from 902 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in San Mateo, CA include Snowflake, View, Fyusion. That works out to 17.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 902 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Thierry Cruanes Snowflake 64
2 Stephen Clark Brown View 28
3 Marcin Zukowski Snowflake 22
#4 Torsten Grabs Snowflake 21
#5 Stefan Johannes Josef Holzer Fyusion 20
#6 Keisuke Saito Ntt Docomo 16
#6 Glenn Black Sony 16
#8 Raf Peeters Smart N.V. 14
#8 Hassan Chafi Oracle 14
#10 Leonid Beigelman Sirna Therapeutics 13
#10 Lisong Zhou Solaria 13
#12 Steven Osman Sony 12
#12 Brian Adolf X Development 12
#12 Pui Kei Johnston Chu Snowflake 12
#15 Gregory W. Dachs, II Intuitive Surgical 11
#15 Michael Taylor Nike 11
#17 Bryan W. Posner Apple 10
#18 Spyridon Triantafyllis Snowflake 8
#18 Rory M. Beyer Avive Solutions 8
#18 Sean M. Kelly Delphi Technologies 8
#18 Adam Bowen Juul Labs 8
#18 Bob E. Feller Carbon 8
#23 Richard B. Sutton Proofpoint 7
#23 Nileema Shingte Snowflake 7
#23 Abdul Munir Snowflake 7
#23 Kyungmin Lee Samsung 7
#23 Henry Levak Logitech Europe S.A. 7
#23 William Jason Fox Arrinex 7
#29 Arnold Poon Broadcom 6
#29 William M. Gillon Ooma 6
#29 Adil Sherwani Sony 6
#29 Cameron Robertson Kitty Hawk 6
#29 Landon Noss Sony 6
#29 Jianwen A. Feng Denali Therapeutics 6
#29 Ryan J. Watts Genentech 6
#29 Kristen Mangum Google 6
#29 Gregory W. Fung Sentreheart 6
#38 Ankit More Intel 5
#38 Shane P. Ahern Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated 5
#38 Steven Trombetta Sony 5
#38 Eric Kihara Shono Applied Materials 5
#38 Yash Modi Google 5
#38 Conrad Minkyoo Yun Palo Alto Investors Lp 5
#38 Brandon Reid Rosen Arcus Biosciences 5
#38 Yuichiro Nakamura Sony 5
#38 Nicholas David Pennycooke Racepoint Energy 5
#38 Praveen Srinivasan Zoox 5
#38 Ashish Mathew Cisco 5
#38 Tuhin Kanti Sharma Salesforce 5
#38 Emil Talpes Tesla 5

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