Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Albany, CA ranks #957 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 3,493 patents from 590 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Albany, CA include Lam Research, IBM, NVIDIA. That works out to 172.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 590 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Alexei Marakhtanov Lam Research 100
2 Ping Zhang IBM 86
3 Ali Heydari NVIDIA 78
#4 Klaus Doppler Nokia 68
#5 John M. Rosenbaum Chevron 67
#6 Nathan W. Cheung Silicon Genesis 64
#7 Yihua Zhang Chevron 59
#8 Kent Karlsson Mobitv 46
#8 David Horsley Chirp Microsystems 46
#10 Donald G. Wallace Collagen 42
#11 Zhaohui Sun American Axle & Manufacturing 41
#11 Vahid Vahedi Lam Research 41
#13 Jesse Rosen Zeltiq Aesthetics 39
#14 Jian Luo Ngm Biopharmaceuticals 38
#15 Peter Lauer Continental Teves Ag & Co. Ohg 37
#16 Peter Lincroft Tanium 35
#17 Yafei Li BOE 34
#18 Matthew Burger Novartis Ag 33
#19 William E. Allen Caterpillar 29
#20 Daniel A. Portnoy University of California 27
#20 Tianying JI Blackberry Limited 27
#22 Dongjin Seo University of California 25
#22 Thomas F. Buckley, III Chevron 25
#24 Kratarth Goel Zoox 24
#24 Gabriel F. Hein Canvas Construction 24
#26 Richard E. Brown Usv Pharmaceutical 23
#26 Hsing-Jen Wann IBM 23
#26 Shenggao Liu Chevron 23
#29 Ellen H. Fiss Roche Molecular Systems 22
#29 Alan Williams Affymetrix 22
#31 Goichi Yoshidome Applied Materials 21
#32 Tapan K. Das Chevron 20
#32 Deborah H. Charych University of California 20
#34 Yongxi Hou Lightsail Energy 19
#34 Samuel J. Gillett AbbVie 19
#34 Yasuo Yoshikuni University of California 19
#34 Meng-Hsiung Kiang Chirp Microsystems 19
#34 Claudio Privitera Neuronetics 19
#39 Christopher BROWN Pfizer 18
#39 Thuy T. Nguyen Bear Flag Robotics 18
#39 Xiangdong Jin Disney 18
#42 Jason Y. Wu Kepler Computing 17
#42 Golden Gopal Krishna Google 17
#44 Gisele Nishiguchi Novartis Ag 16
#44 David Louis Clark Tularik Limited 16
#44 Zachary Coffman Sultan Salesforce 16
#47 Vivek Chawda Amazon 15
#47 Anirban Dasgupta Yahoo Holdings 15
#47 Zhong-Yi Jin Zhejiang Jike Industry & Trade Co. 15
#47 Giorgio Regni Scality, S.A. 15

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