Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Burlingame, CA ranks #349 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 8,867 patents from 999 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Burlingame, CA include Halliburton Energy Services, Genentech, Apple. That works out to 282.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Burkay Donderici Halliburton Energy Services 325
2 Victoria Smith Genentech 314
3 Wayne Carl Westerman Apple 210
#4 Preeti Lal Incyte Pharmaceuticals 209
#5 Ellen Beasley 195
#6 Benjamin D. Pless Neuropace 169
#7 Julian Missig Apple 123
#8 Wei-Jen Huang Cisco 105
#9 Steven Christensen Juul Labs 94
#10 Andrei W. Konradi Elan Pharmaceuticals 88
#11 Aaron Sato Oncomed Pharmaceuticals 78
#12 Mark Rajan Malhotra Google 76
#12 James A. Wells Genentech 76
#14 Juan C. Jaen Warner-Lambert Company 73
#15 Matthew Fisher Adobe 71
#16 Wayne Patterson Tile 70
#17 Mohamed Abouelseoud Sony 69
#17 James G. Taylor Gilead Sciences 69
#17 John Bicket Samsara 69
#20 Mohsen Sardari Electronic Arts 68
#21 Gianpaolo Fasoli Apple 66
#22 Chih-Tsung Huang Cisco 60
#23 Andreas Hegedus Alta Devices 59
#24 Peter M. Agboh Apple 57
#24 Christian Kleinerman Snowflake 57
#26 Florence W. Ow Apple 56
#27 Tad Armstrong Bloom Energy 55
#27 John A. Flygare Genentech 55
#29 Scott Hansma Salesforce 54
#29 Jian Chen Genentech 54
#29 Benjamin Che-Ming Jun Cryptography Research 54
#32 Kenneth P. Aron Abaxis 53
#32 Fernando Valle Danisco Us 53
#34 Grant A. Davidson Dolby Laboratories Licensing 52
#34 Huifen Chen Genentech 52
#36 Alexander Q. TILSON Loma Vista Medical 49
#37 Elizabeth M. Bacon Gilead Sciences 48
#38 Roberto Crea Creagri 43
#39 Leping Li Presidio Pharmaceuticals 41
#40 Arthur H. Zarnowitz Kensington Microware Limited 40
#40 Robert Z. Bachrach Applied Materials 40
#42 Thomas E. Tarara Novartis Ag 39
#43 Pranav Piyush Dropbox 38
#43 Andrea Mucignat Apple 38
#45 Rhys Bonahoom Apple 37
#46 Yurii Brunets People.Ai 36
#46 Richard Chen Personalis 36
#46 Vickie Hsiao-Wei Tsui Genentech 36
#46 Edward T. Schmidt Apple 36
#46 Christopher S. Ngai Applied Materials 36

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