Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

San Mateo, CA ranks #90 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 28,174 patents from 3,727 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in San Mateo, CA include Snowflake, The Invention Science Fund I, Sirna Therapeutics. That works out to 266.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 3,727 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Thierry Cruanes Snowflake 294
2 Thomas A. Weaver The Invention Science Fund I 251
3 Leonid Beigelman Sirna Therapeutics 225
#4 Francois Hebert Alpha And Omega Semiconductor 195
#5 Stephen Clark Brown View 193
#6 Michael Taylor Nike 150
#7 Stefan Johannes Josef Holzer Fyusion 137
#8 Steven Osman Sony 132
#9 Gadi Amit Intel 124
#9 Zhen Hua Liu Oracle 124
#9 Yury Prilutsky Digitaloptics Corporation Europe Limited 124
#12 Adam Bowen Juul Labs 117
#13 Hassan Chafi Oracle 110
#13 Praveen Jain Sparq Systems 110
#15 Marc A. Unger Fluidigm 102
#16 Marcin Zukowski Snowflake 100
#17 Sean M. Kelly Delphi Technologies 99
#18 Gregory W. Dachs, II Intuitive Surgical 94
#18 Darrin Uecker Computer Motion 94
#20 Kevin Baker Genentech 92
#21 Daniel J. Post Apple 87
#21 Stephan V. Schell Apple 87
#21 Peter G. Borden Applied Materials 87
#24 Kyungmin Lee Samsung 86
#25 Mitchell D. Trott Arraycomm 84
#25 Sergei Gryaznov Geron 84
#27 Gabriel A. Cohen Google 83
#28 Pui Kei Johnston Chu Snowflake 81
#28 Glenn Black Sony 81
#30 Avi Ashkenazi Genentech 78
#30 Gad Amit Google 78
#30 Yuichiro Nakamura Sony 78
#33 Keisuke Saito Ntt Docomo 77
#33 Simon Tam Intel 77
#35 Howard Mizuhara Gte Products 76
#36 Victor Spivak Emc 75
#37 Raf Peeters Smart N.V. 74
#38 Carol T. Schembri Agilent Technologies 71
#38 Andrew G. Bosworth Meta 71
#38 David Bernard Smith Alios Biopharma 71
#41 Giovanni Agnoli Apple 70
#42 William Jason Fox Arrinex 69
#42 Jonathan Edgar Roth Aurrion 69
#42 John R. Jacobsen Theravance 69
#45 Brian Adolf X Development 68
#46 David A. Clark Pfizer 67
#47 Bryan W. Posner Apple 66
#47 Yash Modi Google 66
#47 Catherine Sylvain Rigel Pharmaceuticals 66
#47 Wilson Wai Shun Chan Lithium Power 66

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