Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Alameda, CA ranks #483 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 6,774 patents from 1,067 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Alameda, CA include Dolby Laboratories Licensing, Kitty Hawk, Pdf Solutions. That works out to 86.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,067 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Alan J. Seefeldt Dolby Laboratories Licensing 183
2 Damon Vander Lind Kitty Hawk 141
3 Indranil De Pdf Solutions 115
#4 Theodore W. Rogers Intuitive Surgical 97
#5 Zenghe Liu Abbott 94
#6 Nathan de Vries Apple 80
#7 Behrad Aria Abbott 77
#8 Timothy Stowe Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated 74
#9 James Murphy Juniper Networks 69
#10 Gabriel Thurston Sibley Verdant Robotics 68
#10 Wesley Scott Harper Abbott 68
#12 Prasad Peddada Salesforce 67
#13 Scott C. Benson Applied Biosystems 65
#13 Christopher A. Robinette Nike 65
#15 John T. Felts Sio2 Medical Products 61
#15 William Bridge Oracle 61
#17 Gary Ashley Kosan Biosciences Incorporated 56
#17 Mark S. Vinton Dolby Laboratories Licensing 56
#19 David A. Gallup Vytronus 49
#19 Michael C. Johnson Locus Robotics 49
#21 Benjamin Chaloner-Gill Valence Technology 46
#21 Bradley Rhodes Ricoh Company 46
#23 Glenn Berman Abbott 45
#24 Xiaoliang Wang Nanjing University 44
#24 Robert A. Stull AbbVie 44
#26 David Louis Shelton Rinat Neuroscience 43
#27 Richard J. Rikoski Hadal 39
#27 Satoru Miura Seiko Epson 39
#29 Mathew Noel Rekow Velodyne Lidar Usa 34
#29 Christopher A. Thomas Abbott 34
#31 Peter Sturt Lynn Other Lab 32
#31 Francesco Aieta Leia 32
#31 Joe Delone Venters Google 32
#34 Alexander Chan Vital Connect 31
#34 Stephen Pons Penumbra 31
#36 William Don Harriman Crystal Bioscience 29
#36 Ryan Hagey Visa 29
#36 Philip J. Lee Emd Millipore 29
#39 Robert S. Bierwith Suncor 28
#39 Gary E. L. Brandt Theravance Biopharma R&D Ip 28
#39 James McPhail Salesforce 28
#39 Roy E. Morgan Nuortho Surgical 28
#43 Peter S. Williams Bp Chemicals Limited 27
#44 Steven Thomas Coyle Gatan 25
#45 Russell Petersen Elemental Led 24
#45 Alexander Mastroianni Thermo Fisher 24
#45 Andreas Stolcke Microsoft 24
#45 Vivek S. Rao Abbott 24
#45 Jon Sorenson Pacific Biosciences Of California 24
#45 Dai Duong Doan Salesforce 24

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