Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

San Rafael, CA ranks #665 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 212 patents from 117 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in San Rafael, CA include Cisco, Zoox, Nanosys. That works out to 3.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 117 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 R. David Carasso Cisco 13
2 William Anthony Silva Zoox 8
3 Charles Hotz Nanosys 5
3 Steven Hwang Apple 5
3 Adam Scott Kilgore Google 5
3 Matthew J. Reagor Rigetti & Co 5
3 Jack West Tesla 5
#8 Michael Collette Inscape Data 4
#8 Jeffrey A. Boyd Google 4
#8 James S. Papanu Applied Materials 4
#8 Erin Oles Rodan & Fields 4
#8 Scott Gregory Norcross Dolby Laboratories Licensing 4
#13 Kenneth A. Tarlow Unknown 3
#13 Dana T. Aftab Exelixis 3
#13 Joel Freeman Sony 3
#13 Jared MOORE Oric Pharmaceuticals 3
#13 Del France GE 3
#13 Suchia Duggal Lummus Technology 3
#13 Hui Li Autodesk 3
#13 Maria Consolacion Jaskela 3
#13 Philip Rodoni Rubicon Global Holdings 3
#13 Piush VIDYARTHI Crossbay Medical 3
#13 Daniel Robert McCall Salesforce 3
#13 Brendan Pascoe Google 3
#25 Edward Koch Honeywell 2
#25 Adam Shipley Medtronic 2
#25 Stephen R. McDaniel Pipeline Medical Technologies 2
#25 Jean-Pierre Babka Abbott 2
#25 Charles Monte Sap Se 2
#25 Peter O. Peterson Omnipoint 2
#25 Ali Shoeb Verily Life Sciences 2
#25 John Hamilton Steelcase 2
#25 Martin Seery Tesla 2
#25 Hans-Frederick Brown Autodesk 2
#25 Robert C. Woollen Sigma Computing 2
#25 Steve Mays Brainquake 2
#25 Paul Sydell Salesforce 2
#25 Avery Lodato Microsoft 2
#25 Leandro Estebecorena Disney 2
#25 David Carasso Cisco 2
#25 Anders Boeen Pni 2
#42 James Glasnapp Conduent Business Services 1
#42 Bruno Courbage Fair Isaac 1
#42 Aleksey Tsibulya Broadcom 1
#42 Jonathan Bruce Salesforce 1
#42 Richard M. Greene Holo 1
#42 Patrick James Helland Microsoft 1
#42 Chris Levash Ugsi Solutions 1
#42 Paul Nicholas Chait 1
#42 Stoyan Nikodimov Stoyanov Mythical 1

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