Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Emeryville, CA ranks #1,023 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 3,316 patents from 659 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Emeryville, CA include University of California, Canon, Gracenote. That works out to 256.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 659 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Homayoon Kazerooni University of California 73
2 Suresh Jeyachandran Canon 61
3 Aneesh Vartakavi Gracenote 55
#4 Michael Schneider Meyer Sound Laboratories, Incorporated 49
#5 Keith J. Breinlinger Berkeley Lights 46
#6 Robert Meagley Intel 44
#7 Gautham Ramesh 8Me Nova 36
#8 Andrew Silverman Microsoft 35
#8 David H. Kirn 4D Molecular Therapeutics 35
#10 Jung Ook Hong Google 34
#11 Angelo Carpinelli Stasher 33
#12 William J. Routt Sprint Communications 32
#13 Ryan Stafford Sutro Biopharma 31
#14 Angelica Medina-Selby Novartis Vaccines And Diagnostics 30
#14 Keith B. Pfister Novartis Ag 30
#16 Randall D. Lowe, Jr. Berkeley Lights 29
#17 Doris Coit Novartis Vaccines And Diagnostics 28
#18 Zheng Gu Honeywell 26
#19 Lishan Zhao Cargill, Incorporated 25
#19 Karl Fisher Amyris 25
#21 Rahul P. Sathe Intel 24
#21 John A. Tenney Restoration Robotics 24
#21 Andrew Wong Becton, Dickinson And 24
#21 Matthew James Wilkinson Gracenote 24
#25 Penelope Chua Solazyme 23
#26 Derek James McPhee Amyris 22
#26 Keith Chu Conexant Systems 22
#28 Ryan Bremer Plexxikon 21
#28 Neil A. Straus Applied Biosystems 21
#28 Eliza Van Gerbig Illumina 21
#28 Madhav Mehra Eastman Kodak 21
#28 Michael Robert Turner BOE 21
#33 Melissa Kotterman 4D Molecular Therapeutics 20
#33 Mandana Veiseh Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 20
#35 Atul A. Salvekar Qualcomm 19
#35 Brian Dougherty Aqua Metals 19
#37 Roger Nelson Fg Products 18
#37 Kwame Phillips-Solomon Charcoal Companion Limited 18
#37 Paul A. Luciw Novartis Vaccines And Diagnostics 18
#37 Jeff Zens Levi Strauss & 18
#41 Kristy Michelle Hawkins Amyris 16
#41 Logan Van Engelhoven University of California 16
#41 Alexey Rivkin Sloan Kettering Institute For Cancer Research 16
#41 Katousha Ghaemi Nouri Stasher 16
#41 Kei Tsuji Mizuno 16
#46 Ki Tae Nam MIT 15
#46 Terrin Eager Sg Gaming 15
#46 Vivien Chan Eureka Therapeutics 15
#46 Ying Xu IBM 15
#46 John Robert Behrens Ebay 15

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