Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Berkeley, CA ranks #103 worldwide for total patents filed in 2025, with 1,201 patents from 589 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Berkeley, CA include Abbott, Amazon, Beijing Voyager Technology Co.. That works out to 9.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 589 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Benjamin J. Feldman Abbott 20
2 Jiayun WANG Amazon 19
3 Youmin Wang Beijing Voyager Technology Co. 17
#4 Jennifer A. Doudna University of California 15
#5 Charles Almy Ojjo 12
#6 Christopher J. Chase AT&T 11
#7 Zachary Alexander Salesforce 10
#7 Eric A. Hudson Lam Research 10
#7 Carlos Fernando Rondina Mateus Bandwidth 10 10
#7 Zeev Neumeier Inscape Data 10
#7 Russ MASCHMEYER Shopify 10
#12 Chiaki Treynor Rondo Energy 9
#12 Esteban Leon Duque Juul Labs 9
#12 Philip Worland Bandwidth 10 9
#12 Jeffrey Scott Gracenote 9
#16 Jeroen Van Rotterdam Open Text 8
#16 Janos Kirz Sigray 8
#18 Hyun Cho Abbott 7
#18 Andrew Waterman Sifive 7
#18 Vitaliy Nimon Polyplus Battery 7
#18 Yevgeniy S. Nimon Polyplus Battery 7
#18 Bruce D. Katz Polyplus Battery 7
#18 Katherine Pfeiffer 10X Genomics 7
#18 Steven J. Visco Polyplus Battery 7
#18 Jillian F. Banfield University of California 7
#18 Karsten Temme Pivot Bio 7
#27 John Fini Ayar Labs 6
#27 Etosha R. Cave Twelve Benefit 6
#27 Zafar Rafii Gracenote 6
#27 Ulrich Mueller Basf Se 6
#27 Sergey Levine Google 6
#27 Alireza Hariri Verb Surgical 6
#33 Edward Izett Twelve Benefit 5
#33 Peter C. DiMaria Gracenote 5
#33 Defne Civelekoglu Yohana 5
#33 Basem Al-Shayeb University of California 5
#33 Gale Wichmann Amyris 5
#33 David J. Crawshaw Tailscale 5
#33 Andrew V. Hill Kla-Tencor 5
#33 Jeffrey KIM Slingshot Biosciences 5
#33 Ulrich Mueller 5
#42 Yide Shentu Embodied Intelligence 4
#42 Eric Purdy Ppc Broadband 4
#42 Mahati Chintapalli Xerox 4
#42 Aaron Daniel Davidson Databricks 4
#42 David W. Lin Gilead Sciences 4
#42 Richard Broglie Pivot Bio 4
#42 Sharath Rao Karikurve Maplebear 4
#42 Eugen Solowjow Siemens Aktiengesellschaft 4
#42 Mark REISINGER Pivot Bio 4

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