Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Emerald Hills, CA ranks #1,801 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,841 patents from 127 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Emerald Hills, CA include Acclarent, Western Digital Technologies, Skydio.

Showing 1–50 of 127 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 John Morriss Acclarent 127
2 Kuok San Ho Western Digital Technologies 109
3 Abraham Galton Bachrach Skydio 91
#4 Fariborz Assaderaghi IBM 77
#5 Christopher Golden Pure Storage 67
#6 Jeffrey Ma Apple 56
#7 John Beatty First Data 55
#8 Branko Lukic Logitech Europe S.A. 54
#9 Maegan K. Spencer Apple 53
#10 Jeffrey L. Emery Intuity Medical 52
#10 Andrew Daiber Intel 52
#12 Scott J. Dylla AbbVie 51
#13 Anne Jones Apple 44
#14 Benjamin J. Kallman Apple 38
#15 Gregory B. Anderson Xerox 34
#16 Andrew Sparks Ariosa Diagnostics 32
#17 Adrian Edward Smith Inhale Therapeutic Systems 31
#18 Meeten Bhavsar Oracle 30
#19 Vadim Spivak Pivotal Software 29
#20 Hilary Plake Beck Amgen 28
#21 Lilia Maria Babe Danisco Us 27
#22 Nickolas Kavantzas Oracle 26
#23 Jonathan Lindo Ca 25
#24 Christopher Wilson Imec Vzw 23
#24 Christopher G. Talbot 23
#26 Andrew V. Goldberg Microsoft 22
#26 John E. Knox Gilead Sciences 22
#28 Steven J. Shire Genentech 21
#28 J. William Maney, Jr. Roche Sequencing Solutions 21
#30 Jeff Norton Relign 20
#30 Bo Morgan Apple 20
#32 Nissan Hajaj Google 17
#33 Florian Galdo Apple 15
#34 Sue-Kyoung Lee Oracle 14
#34 Laurent Nicolas Landowski Meta 14
#36 Mark Himelstein Emc Ip Holding Company 13
#36 Torsten Zeppenfeld Cloudflare 13
#36 Donald E. Barrick Codar Ocean Sensors 13
#36 Mohamed Mostafa Cisco 13
#40 Tomas Leijtens Swift Solar 12
#40 Lauri J. Karttunen Xerox 12
#40 William Rich Chargepoint 12
#43 Daniel R. Mansur Intel 11
#43 David Proctor Microsoft 11
#43 WeiQi Lin Durect 11
#43 Bill Maney Genia Technologies 11
#43 Per Love Hornquist Astrand Apple 11
#48 Deborah Anne Wallach Google 10
#48 Carlos D. Bustamante Stanford University 10
#48 Christopher W. Putnam Meta 10

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