Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Berkeley, CA ranks #88 worldwide for total patents filed in 2023, with 1,426 patents from 752 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Berkeley, CA include Beijing Voyager Technology Co., Enlitic, University of California. That works out to 11.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 752 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Youmin Wang Beijing Voyager Technology Co. 24
2 Ben Covington Enlitic 16
3 Jennifer A. Doudna University of California 14
#4 Alexander Koshelev Meta 12
#4 Jeroen Van Rotterdam Open Text 12
#6 Jeffrey Scott Gracenote 11
#6 Mark Wade Ayar Labs 11
#8 Ulrich Mueller Basf Se 10
#8 Charles Almy Ojjo 10
#8 Chen Sun Ayar Labs 10
#8 Chiaki Treynor Rondo Energy 10
#12 William Glaser Grabango 9
#13 Katherine Pfeiffer 10X Genomics 8
#13 Sanjay Jeyakumar Abnormal Security 8
#13 Anirudh Viswanathan Here Global B.V. 8
#16 Dewey Ho Lee Gracenote 7
#16 John Fini Ayar Labs 7
#16 Fang I. Hsiao Cisco 7
#19 Alireza Hariri Verb Surgical 6
#19 Bruce D. Katz Polyplus Battery 6
#19 Peng Wu Scripps Research 6
#19 Simon Carlile Iyo 6
#19 Yevgeniy S. Nimon Polyplus Battery 6
#19 Esteban Leon Duque Juul Labs 6
#19 Rob Honeycutt Snik 6
#19 Giovanni Gozzini Apple 6
#19 Zafar Rafii Gracenote 6
#19 Steven J. Visco Polyplus Battery 6
#19 Andrew V. Hill Kla-Tencor 6
#19 Jeffrey KIM Slingshot Biosciences 6
#19 Eric Purdy Ppc Broadband 6
#19 Zizhao Gong Intel 6
#19 Ethan ESCOWITZ Arris Composites 6
#34 Mahati Chintapalli Xerox 5
#34 Ramachandran Gurumoorthy The Nielsen Company (Us) 5
#34 Sergey Levine Google 5
#34 Daniel Joel Freschl Google 5
#34 Lynn Wang Google 5
#34 Yu Du Abb Schweiz Ag 5
#34 Stephen Joseph DiVerdi Adobe 5
#34 Anantha Pradeep The Nielsen Company (Us) 5
#34 Wilson Harron Gracenote 5
#34 Jared William Schwede Spark Thermionics 5
#34 Karsten Temme Pivot Bio 5
#34 Pierre Indermuhle Twist Bioscience 5
#34 Robert T. Knight The Nielsen Company (Us) 5
#34 Shelten Gee Jao Yuen Google 5
#34 Vitaliy Nimon Polyplus Battery 5
#49 FNU Atiquzzaman Kepler Computing 4
#49 Benjamin Jacob Bloom Rigetti & Co 4

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