Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Belmont, CA ranks #234 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 12,762 patents from 1,494 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Belmont, CA include Gopro, Lsi, Pdf Solutions. That works out to 450.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,494 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Scott Patrick Campbell Gopro 186
2 George Mathew Lsi 154
3 Christopher Hess Pdf Solutions 132
#4 Eric Goldfarb Acclarent 111
#5 Erik Verner Pharmacyclics 102
#6 Bryant Garcia Murata Manufacturing Co. 100
#7 Jonathan Betts-LaCroix Vium 88
#8 Stephen R. McClure Apple 87
#9 Michael Binnard Nikon 86
#10 Henry Wu Aromate Industries Co. 83
#11 Eric J. Shrader Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated 77
#12 Konstantinos Alataris Nevro 72
#13 Yu Lei Applied Materials 71
#14 Sashikanth Chandrasekaran Oracle 68
#14 Christopher R. Carlson Intuitive Surgical 68
#16 Mu Qiao IBM 67
#17 Timothy Robertson Proteus Digital Health 64
#17 Pierre St. Hilaire Magic Leap 64
#19 Jared S. Gross Google 62
#19 Sharad Singhal HP 62
#21 Ayrookaran J. Poulose Danisco Us 59
#22 Marco Sanvido Pure Storage 58
#23 Eric L. Dias Rennovia 57
#23 Erik Kay Google 57
#23 Matthew Hill Natera 57
#23 Zhanfeng Jia Qualcomm 57
#23 Narbeh Derhacobian AMD 57
#28 Mihai Christodorescu IBM 55
#28 Harold Henry Chaput Electronic Arts 55
#30 Caelan G. Stack Apple 53
#30 Jonathan M. Sorger Intuitive Surgical 53
#30 Lila Fakhraie Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 53
#30 Thomas B. Ottoboni Heron Therapeutics 53
#34 Srinath Shankar Snowflake 52
#34 Laveille Kao Voss Abbott 52
#36 Robert T. Chang Mvrx 51
#37 Carlo Di Nallo Apple 50
#37 Patrick Christopher Leger Verdant Robotics 50
#39 Jay Tung Elan Pharmaceuticals 49
#39 Leonid Poslavsky Kla-Tencor 49
#39 Thomas P. Low Sri International 49
#39 Andrew Goldenson Google 49
#39 Xiaohui Du Amgen 49
#44 Donnell W. Gurskis Medtronic 48
#44 Robert B. Dubridge Harpoon Therapeutics 48
#46 Justin Mauck Kateeva 47
#46 Diana K. Smetters Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated 47
#46 Claes Gustafsson Maxygen 47
#49 Boris Klots Oracle 46
#50 Xiaojing Wang Genentech 45

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