Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Berkeley, CA ranks #109 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 24,005 patents from 3,731 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Berkeley, CA include Abbott, Basf Se, Google. That works out to 193.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 3,731 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Benjamin J. Feldman Abbott 234
2 Ulrich Mueller Basf Se 207
3 Shelten Gee Jao Yuen Google 192
#4 James Park Google 161
#5 Eric A. Hudson Lam Research 154
#6 Steven J. Visco Polyplus Battery 150
#7 Jennifer A. Doudna University of California 138
#8 Sean Van Der Linden Yellowpages.Com 116
#9 Giovanni Gozzini Apple 115
#10 Youmin Wang Beijing Voyager Technology Co. 113
#11 John Nicholas Gross John Nicholas And Kristin Gross Trust 111
#12 Jeroen Van Rotterdam Open Text 110
#13 Michael G. Luby Qualcomm 108
#14 Jacob J. Plattner Anacor Pharmaceuticals 104
#15 Yevgeniy S. Nimon Polyplus Battery 101
#16 Charles Almy Ojjo 99
#17 Victor B. Kley General Nanotechnology 90
#18 Robert T. Knight The Nielsen Company (Us) 82
#19 Bruce D. Katz Polyplus Battery 80
#20 Marco A. Zuniga Volterra Semiconductor 78
#21 Jay D. Keasling University of California 77
#22 Steven McCanne Riverbed Technology 74
#23 Eric Purdy Ppc Broadband 73
#24 Anantha Pradeep The Nielsen Company (Us) 72
#24 Stephen Joseph DiVerdi Adobe 72
#26 Andrew V. Hill Kla-Tencor 71
#27 Michael Plitkins Google 70
#28 John Fini Ayar Labs 69
#28 Hans F. Valencia Boston Scientific Scimed 69
#30 John Heck Intel 68
#31 Michael Farmwald Rambus 66
#31 Martin Jinek University of California 66
#31 Wayne Spevak Plexxikon 66
#34 Ritesh K. Madan Cisco 65
#34 Ramachandran Gurumoorthy The Nielsen Company (Us) 65
#36 Alan Kramer 64
#36 Chen Sun Ayar Labs 64
#38 Tao Jiang Mallinckrodt 62
#39 Robert Lin Eastman Chemical 60
#39 Zeev Neumeier Inscape Data 60
#41 Peter Norton Lam Research 58
#42 Jesse Collins Salesforce 56
#43 John Robert Coates Cisco 54
#44 Phillip B. Messersmith Northwestern University 53
#44 H. Adam R. Klyce Spartek Medical 53
#46 Ben Covington Enlitic 52
#46 Jeffrey Scott Gracenote 52
#48 Sudip Mukhopadhyay Honeywell 51
#49 Jaron Lanier Microsoft 50
#49 Janos Kirz Sigray 50

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