Top Inventors in Oakland, CA | Patent Leaderboard

Oakland, CA ranks #92 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 27,793 patents from 4,380 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Oakland, CA include Qualcomm, Sony, Abbott. That works out to 63.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 4,380 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Rajarshi Gupta	Qualcomm	235
2	Gary M. Zalewski	Sony	229
3	Gary Alan Hayter	Abbott	226
#4	Chenming Hu	TSMC	164
#5	Earl T. Cohen	Seagate Technology	157
#6	Stefan Marti	Harman International Industries, Incorporated	141
#7	David M. Birnbaum	Immersion	138
#8	Robinson Piramuthu	Ebay	129
#9	Marcos Alonso Ruiz	Apple	119
#10	Christopher Hibmacronan	Juul Labs	118
#10	Fredric C. Colman	Abbott	118
#12	Avi Bar-Zeev	Microsoft	103
#13	Kevin Ray	Kodak Polychrome Graphics Company	100
#14	Jonathan Maltz	Shanghai United Imaging Healthcare Co.	98
#15	Eugene Berdichevsky	Sila Nanotechnologies	97
#16	Matthew J. Ranney	Voxer Ip	93
#17	Serge Saxonov	10X Genomics	86
#17	Joseph Catanese, III	Neotract	86
#19	Michelle Fisher	Unknown	83
#20	Keith Phillip Laby	Computer Motion	82
#21	Davide Di Censo	Harman International Industries, Incorporated	81
#22	Fred F. Chen	Rambus	80
#22	Jean M. J. Frechet	Cornell Research Foundation	80
#24	Adnan Shennib	Ihear Medical	79
#25	Ingemar H. Lundquist	Vidamed	78
#26	Jack Dorsey	Inc Square, Co.	72
#27	Christopher M. Spadaccini	Lawrence Livermore National Security	69
#28	Cory Thomas Borovicka	Charcoal Companion Limited	68
#28	Dustin Garvey	Oracle	68
#30	David H. Gelfand	Roche Molecular Systems	67
#30	Hany Basam Eitouni	Seeo	67
#30	Utkan Salman	Peerless Lighting	67
#33	David S. Hall	Velodyne Lidar Usa	66
#33	Philip J. Barr	Chiron	66
#35	Alexander W. Au	Apple	65
#35	Oliver J. Ratcliffe	Mendel Biotechnology	65
#37	Joseph O'Sullivan	Yahoo Holdings	64
#37	Mitchell Joseph Heinrich	Google	64
#37	Ronak Desai	Cisco	64
#40	John Setel O'Donnell	Rondo Energy	63
#40	Michael Trung Tran	Abl Ip Holding	63
#40	Darius Eghbal	Breathe Technologies	63
#43	Edwin P. Berlin, Jr.	Lightsail Energy	62
#44	Danielle A. Fong	Lightsail Energy	61
#45	Andreas Neumann	IBM	60
#46	Richard J. Ross	Baker Hughes Holdings	59
#46	Martin H. Muendel	Lumentum Operations	59
#48	Crx K. Chai	Opentv	58
#48	Heiko Gernot Albert Panther	Google	58
#48	Thomas J. Coleman	B.A.A.T Enterprises	58

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