Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Citrus Heights, CA ranks #3,705 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 791 patents from 237 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Citrus Heights, CA include Intel, AMD, Vision Service Plan. That works out to 9.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 237 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 James M. Dodd Intel 40
2 Amit Merchant Intel 38
3 Sanjay S. Talreja Intel 25
#4 Edward Milton McWhorter 23
#5 Mohammad Khan AMD 21
#5 Jerry A. Kreifels Intel 21
#7 Robert Milstrey Intel 19
#7 Richard J. Durante Intel 19
#9 Sherif Sweha Intel 14
#9 Jay William Sales Vision Service Plan 14
#11 Leonard Schoenman ExxonMobil 13
#12 Stephen M. Walters Bell Communications Research 11
#12 Joseph R. Paczonay 11
#12 Clement Tremblay Tri Tool 11
#12 Himanshu Sinha Ntt Security Holdings 11
#16 Ching-Chen Wu ITRI 10
#17 Markus A. Levy Intel 9
#17 Pradip Shankar Intel 9
#17 Gary E. Phillippe 9
#20 Dennis J. Gallagher Omnivision Technologies 8
#20 Maynard A. Wright Applied Digital Access 8
#20 David Cho Northgate Technologies 8
#20 Loren Ralph Rf Prime 8
#20 Bryan N. Allo Allo Unknown 8
#20 Susan R. Nelson US Air Force 8
#20 Stephan Schaem Adobe 8
#27 Doug Grumann HP 7
#27 Edward M. Porrazzo Chain Reactions 7
#27 Ruxandra Vidu Q1 Nanosystems 7
#27 Eric G. Tausheck 7
#27 Terry L. Baucom Intel 7
#27 Laura Green Cardiac Pacemakers 7
#27 Gary S. Fletcher, Jr. Mitsubishi Electric 7
#27 Ronald Redenius 7
#27 Robert M. Hoffman Anticancer 7
#36 Robert Lalum Mionix 6
#36 Prasanna C. Shah Intel 6
#38 Brian T. McWhirter RTX (Raytheon) 5
#38 Manuel Martinez General Cybernation Group 5
#38 Patrick L. Sutcliffe 5
#41 Norman Horton 4
#41 Phillip Crews Arch Development 4
#41 Max G. Harrington Sybron Chemicals 4
#41 Richard Milson A-Med Systems 4
#41 Lawrence E. Bertolucci Woodside Biomedical 4
#41 David E. Johndreau 4
#41 Michael Bennett 4
#41 Robert Frank Parchewsky Shell Oil Compny 4
#41 Vladimir Magdalin Intuit 4
#41 Michel Ibrahim Ishac Intel 4

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