Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Pleasanton, CA ranks #88 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 28,705 patents from 3,062 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Pleasanton, CA include Qualcomm, Central Glass Company, Limited, Samsung. That works out to 359.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 3,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Sudhir Kumar Baghel Qualcomm 498
2 James L. Hedrick Central Glass Company, Limited 359
3 Sompong Paul Olarig Samsung 239
#4 Michael R. Rice Applied Materials 217
#5 Sivananda K. Kanakasabapathy IBM 204
#6 Rajinder Dhindsa Lam Research 199
#7 Yiming Huai Avalanche Technology 190
#8 Stephen Grant Ericsson 188
#9 Michael P. Wallace Stryker 179
#10 Patrick Faith Visa 172
#11 Sudheer A. Grandhi Interdigital Technology 160
#12 Sanjay Kumar Hooda Cisco 143
#13 Andrew D. Bailey, III Lam 135
#13 Kumar Balachandran Ericsson 135
#15 Kevin Ness 10X Genomics 131
#16 Jeffery R. Parker Solid State Opto Limited 128
#17 Adrian E. Ong Rambus 126
#18 Bipin Sahni Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 125
#19 Anand Oswal Cisco 121
#20 Benjamin Hindson 10X Genomics 118
#21 Chyu-Jiuh Torng Headway Technologies 113
#22 Nag B. Patibandla Applied Materials 112
#23 Jianxiong Shi Apple 111
#24 William L. Smith The Clorox 107
#25 Sunil Mehta AMD 104
#26 Arun Raghupathy Apple 103
#27 Shifang Li Tokyo Electron Limited 101
#28 Ramdas P. Kachare Samsung 99
#29 Russell E. Bell Brita Lp 96
#29 Sachin Gopaldas Totale Emc Ip Holding Company 96
#31 Theodore C. Lamson Neotract 95
#32 Kellen Christopher Smalley Kabam, 93
#33 Zhanjie Li Western Digital Technologies 92
#34 Shahid Rauf Applied Materials 90
#35 Brian M. Pearce Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 89
#36 Jongwook Kye Globalfoundries 88
#36 Tanmay Kumar Sandisk 3D 88
#38 Thomas R. Jenkins Acclarent 86
#39 Alan H. Ostroff Cameron Health 84
#40 Bing R. Hsieh Xerox 80
#40 Sourav Saha IBM 80
#42 Ramesh Panwar Oracle 78
#42 Myung Cheol Yoo LG 78
#44 Allan Thomson Cisco 77
#45 Hans Klein Cypress Semiconductor 75
#46 Konstantine Karavakis Tessera 74
#47 Hui-Chuan Wang Headway Technologies 73
#48 Rajiv Bharadwaj 10X Genomics 72
#49 Michael L. Green Abbott 71
#49 David Stumbo Nanosys 71

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