Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Sausalito, CA ranks #2,323 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,351 patents from 273 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Sausalito, CA include Meta, Tvworks, Covidien Lp. That works out to 185.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 273 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Mary Lou Jepsen Meta 69
2 John Carney Tvworks 49
3 Thomas Sturm Covidien Lp 48
#4 Bernard James Kerr Adobe 39
#5 Symon Whitehorn HP 37
#6 David Salesin Microsoft 29
#6 Curtis L. Landi Supracor Systems 29
#8 Fadi A. Mahmoud Adaptec 25
#9 Daren Edward Joy Lifefactory 24
#9 Jamie McLellan Allbirds 24
#9 Jesse Menayan Steelcase 24
#12 Susan L. Wilson Supracor Systems 23
#13 Orestis Manthoulis AT&T 22
#14 Pauline C. Zamora Intarcia Therapeutics 21
#14 David S. Bradford University of California 21
#14 John Stiggelbout Bioventrix 21
#17 Antonietta Oliva Apple 19
#18 Adrian Dieter Rapp Salesforce 17
#18 Luke A. Wilhelm Apple 17
#20 Eun Young Hwang Intellectual Ventures 16
#20 Vianney Rancurel Scality, S.A. 16
#20 Zach Serber Zymergen 16
#23 Richard Schulze Unchartedvr 15
#24 David Salant Atlantic City Electric 14
#24 Nicholas P. Sands Ikanos Communications 14
#24 Herbert S. Madan 14
#27 Micah Freedman Integral Ad Science 13
#27 Marc Dangeard Oracle 13
#29 Ian Wang Zynga 12
#29 Daniel J. Miller Agilent Technologies 12
#29 Jason Stakelon Dropbox 12
#29 Joseph B. Tate Ume Voice 12
#33 Jean Michel Decombe Groxis 10
#33 Mark Borodkin Affymetrix 10
#33 Edward T. Prell S-B Power Tool 10
#36 Valeria Ossovskaya Bipar Sciences 9
#36 Caitlin Regan Open Water Internet 9
#38 John English Cph Innovations 8
#38 Jesse T. Quatse La Telemecanique Electric 8
#38 James B. Tichy 8
#38 Andrew R. Mendelsohn Braasch Biotech 8
#42 Craig Philip Olinsky Mcafee 7
#42 Kevin Wong Visa 7
#42 Daniel D. Claxton Qualcomm 7
#42 Sandra N. Stangl Williams-Sonoma 7
#42 Larry J. Fretto Cor Therapeutics 7
#42 Deepkarn Bedi Block 7
#48 Bryan Dunkeld Content Technologies 6
#48 Alex N. Koltzoff Oracle 6
#48 Theodor Holm Nelson 6

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