Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Pleasant Hill, CA ranks #1,408 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 2,379 patents from 365 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Pleasant Hill, CA include Cisco, Chevron, Vioptix. That works out to 68.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 365 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Tristan Antonio Fletcher Cisco 120
2 Sven Ivar Hommeltoft Chevron 93
3 Kate LeeAnn Bechtel Vioptix 88
#4 Cary Glen Noel Cisco 79
#5 Steven T. Mitchell Kyphon Sarl 72
#5 Manoj C. Desai Gilead Sciences 72
#7 Timothy Verrall Intel 66
#8 Matthias Seul IBM 55
#9 Jared T. Benson T-Mobile Usa 51
#10 Thomas K. Tcheng Neuropace 48
#11 Anthony Gerald Kern Google 41
#12 Nam Nguyen Dell Products 39
#12 Eric John Fairbanks Google 39
#12 Adeola Florence Ojo Chevron 39
#15 Bharadvaj R. Podduturi World Products 33
#16 Alexander Farrow Philip Morris Products S.A. 30
#17 Emerando M. Delos Reyes Cellco Partnership 29
#18 Poorya Sabounchi Illumina 28
#19 Andrew R. Gibbs Glaxo Group Limited 27
#20 Ralph D'Innocente Jacuzzi 24
#21 Dennis Reid Hi-Lex 20
#21 Matthew Doyle Fresenius Medical Care Holdings 20
#23 Jeremiah Joseph Akin Ebay 19
#23 Timothy M. Stauffer Simpson Strong-Tie Company 19
#23 Vladimir N. Deryugin Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories 19
#26 Clayton Forbes Haller Stearns 18
#26 Robbert M. Vermeulen Applied Materials 18
#28 Lyubov Nesteroff Juniper Networks 17
#28 Peter J. Gazzara Tc1 17
#28 Aregahegn Yifru Novartis Ag 17
#28 Raymond Ng Johnson & Johnson 17
#32 Larry J. Cummings Bio-Rad Laboratories 16
#32 Andrew Campbell The Mathworks 16
#32 Daniel Bedinger 16
#32 Joshua Kittleson Bolt Threads 16
#36 Lucian Mihailescu Ziteo 15
#36 Robert Morgan Dolphin N2 Limited 15
#38 Joseph Michael Young Novartis Ag 14
#38 Phyllis Reuther Sprint Communications 14
#40 Shushan Wen Fortinet 13
#40 Peichao Lu Novartis Ag 13
#40 Jeff Patterson Directly Software 13
#43 Darrin Stuart Novartis Ag 12
#43 Igor Petrunya Lendingclub 12
#43 Ha Hong Caption Health 12
#43 Iain HARLOW Cerego Japan Kabushiki Kaisha 12
#47 Normand Frigon Elan Pharmaceuticals 11
#47 David Sherr Charles Schwab & Co. 11
#47 Raf Podowski Intertrust Technologies 11
#47 Ebrahim Firoozabady Dna Plant Technology 11

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