Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Berkeley, CA ranks #110 worldwide for total patents filed in 2022, with 1,212 patents from 657 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Berkeley, CA include University of California, Beijing Voyager Technology Co., Open Text. That works out to 9.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 657 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Jennifer A. Doudna University of California 17
1 Youmin Wang Beijing Voyager Technology Co. 17
3 Jeroen Van Rotterdam Open Text 15
#4 William Glaser Grabango 12
#4 Peter Dunker Roku 12
#4 Ethan ESCOWITZ Arris Composites 12
#4 Ben Covington Enlitic 12
#8 Chen Sun Ayar Labs 11
#8 Mark Wade Ayar Labs 11
#10 Charles Almy Ojjo 10
#11 Ulrich Mueller Basf Se 9
#11 Andrew V. Hill Kla-Tencor 9
#13 Anirudh Viswanathan Here Global B.V. 8
#13 Shelten Gee Jao Yuen Google 8
#13 Esteban Leon Duque Juul Labs 8
#13 Fang I. Hsiao Cisco 8
#13 Anish Mittal Here Global B.V. 8
#18 Giovanni Gozzini Apple 7
#18 Martin Jinek University of California 7
#18 Benjamin J. Feldman Abbott 7
#21 Aathavan Karunakaran Illumina 6
#21 Timothy W. Abraham Cargill, Incorporated 6
#21 Sanjay Jeyakumar Abnormal Security 6
#21 Stephen Joseph DiVerdi Adobe 6
#21 Lucas Benjamin Harrington University of California 6
#21 Jillian F. Banfield University of California 6
#27 Ting Xu University of California 5
#27 Zihan Hans Liu Cognex 5
#27 John Robert Coates Cisco 5
#27 Zafar Rafii Gracenote 5
#27 Alex Sharenko Gaf Energy 5
#27 Shiva Ghose General Motors 5
#27 Ramachandran Gurumoorthy The Nielsen Company (Us) 5
#27 Paul Daniel Donohoue Caribou Biosciences 5
#27 Vinod Valloppillil Dropbox 5
#27 Richard A. Muller Deep Isolation 5
#27 James Park Google 5
#27 James Selvidge Citrix Systems 5
#27 Robert T. Knight The Nielsen Company (Us) 5
#27 Janice S. Chen University of California 5
#27 Alexander Koshelev Meta 5
#42 Gergely T. Zimanyi Neurolens 4
#42 Peter C. DiMaria Gracenote 4
#42 Jake A. Nelson Apple 4
#42 Mark A. Wilcutts Tula Etechnology 4
#42 Ryan Pearson Colorado State University 4
#42 Jeffrey Scott Gracenote 4
#42 Dewey Ho Lee Gracenote 4
#42 Franco Moriconi Veir 4
#42 John Fini Ayar Labs 4

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