Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Atherton, CA ranks #604 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 5,597 patents from 431 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Atherton, CA include Heartflow, Usgi Medical, Infinera. That works out to 778.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 431 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Charles A. Taylor Heartflow 208
2 Vahid Saadat Usgi Medical 179
2 David F. Welch Infinera 179
#4 Edwin F. Ullman Syntex (U.S.A.) 178
#5 Jeffrey C. Hawkins Numenta 144
#6 Anurag Windlass Gupta Amazon 143
#7 John M. Cioffi Adaptive Spectrum And Signal Alignment, Incorporated 114
#8 Victor H. Shear Intertrust Technologies 107
#9 Alejandro Zaffaroni Alexza Pharmaceuticals 104
#10 Keng Lim Apple 99
#11 AmirAli TALASAZ Guardant Health 95
#12 Helmy A. Eltoukhy Guardant Health 88
#13 George Samachisa 84
#13 Edward H. Frank Broadcom 84
#13 Stephen G. Grubb Infinera 84
#16 James F. Dempsey Viewray Technologies 82
#16 Dennis S. Fernandez Unknown 82
#18 Lambertus Hesselink Western Digital Technologies 75
#19 Quang Tran Covidien Lp 70
#20 Vahid Saadat Voyage Medical 68
#21 Par Botes Pure Storage 67
#22 Rory W. Fuerst Kaepa 61
#23 Kramadhati V. Ravi Intel 57
#23 Steven Ryutaro Takayama Logitech Europe S.A. 57
#25 Barbara Paldus Finesse Solutions 56
#25 Paul G. Yock Cardiovascular Imaging Systems 56
#25 Paul Badawi Sight Sciences 56
#28 Ardavan Maleki Tehrani Assia Spe 51
#29 Thierry Nivaggioli AbbVie 48
#30 William M. Facteau Acclarent 47
#31 Philip S. Green Sri International 45
#32 Andrew B. Carlson Exaflop 44
#33 Anatoli B. Stein Guzik Technical Enterprises 42
#33 N. Parker Willis Ebr Systems 42
#35 Adrian Liam Gill Revolution Medicines 41
#35 Taher Elgamal Salesforce 41
#37 Samir Menon Dexterity 40
#38 King Owyang Siliconix Incorporated 36
#38 Robert C. Gardner Quarkstar 36
#38 Richard W. O'Connor Invicta Medical 36
#41 Jeffrey C. Smith Smule 35
#41 Allan Will General Surgical Innovations 35
#41 David L. Berliner Pherin 35
#44 Neil J. Sheehan Natus Medical Incorporated 34
#45 Gerald J. Burnett Collaboration Properties 33
#46 Haixiang Liang Broadcom 32
#47 David Tobin Palantir Technologies 31
#48 Nicholas J. Filippi Cisco 30
#48 Mojan Goshayeshgar Kyphon Sàrl 30
#50 Rene Meyer Unity Semiconductor 29

Part of California