Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Berkeley, CA ranks #96 worldwide for total patents filed in 2024, with 1,412 patents from 788 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Berkeley, CA include Beijing Voyager Technology Co., Abbott, Apple. That works out to 11.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 788 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Youmin Wang Beijing Voyager Technology Co. 32
2 Benjamin J. Feldman Abbott 12
3 Giovanni Gozzini Apple 11
3 Jeffrey Scott Gracenote 11
#5 Chiaki Treynor Rondo Energy 10
#6 Charles Almy Ojjo 9
#6 Esteban Leon Duque Juul Labs 9
#6 Zafar Rafii Gracenote 9
#6 Yu Du Abb Schweiz Ag 9
#10 William J. Zeng Rigetti & Co 8
#10 John Fini Ayar Labs 8
#10 Benjamin Jacob Bloom Rigetti & Co 8
#10 Ulrich Mueller Basf Se 8
#14 David Rabuka Redwood Bioscience 7
#14 William Glaser Grabango 7
#14 Yevgeniy S. Nimon Polyplus Battery 7
#14 Alireza Hariri Verb Surgical 7
#14 Bruce D. Katz Polyplus Battery 7
#14 Katherine Pfeiffer 10X Genomics 7
#14 Wilson Harron Gracenote 7
#14 Steven J. Visco Polyplus Battery 7
#14 Mahati Chintapalli Xerox 7
#14 Hyun Cho Abbott 7
#14 Chen Sun Ayar Labs 7
#25 Jennifer A. Doudna University of California 6
#25 Vitaliy Nimon Polyplus Battery 6
#25 Jake A. Nelson Apple 6
#25 Jeroen Van Rotterdam Open Text 6
#25 John Robert Coates Cisco 6
#25 Mark Wade Ayar Labs 6
#25 John Heck Intel 6
#25 Jose Moreno Capital One Services 6
#33 Lijun Wu Forevertek Biotechnology Co. 5
#33 Sergey Levine Google 5
#33 Peter Dunker Roku 5
#33 Ethan ESCOWITZ Arris Composites 5
#33 Jared William Schwede Spark Thermionics 5
#33 Rob Honeycutt Snik 5
#33 Andrew V. Hill Kla-Tencor 5
#33 Han Zou onsemi 5
#33 Michael Paul Armbrust Databricks 5
#33 Sharath Rao Karikurve Maplebear 5
#33 Shelten Gee Jao Yuen Google 5
#33 David W. Lin Gilead Sciences 5
#45 Martin Jinek University of California 4
#45 Yoon Jung Jeong University of California 4
#45 John Robert Waldeisen Lucira Health 4
#45 Peter C. DiMaria Gracenote 4
#45 Juan Guerrero Illinois Tool Works 4
#45 Lawrence David Cutler Baobab Studios 4

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