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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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John O. Link — 106 Patents

GSGilead Sciences: 58 patents #5 of 952Top 1%
GPGilead Pharmasset: 19 patents #4 of 117Top 4%
VIVirobay: 13 patents #1 of 22Top 5%
ARAtlantic Richfield: 5 patents #130 of 1,068Top 15%
APAxys Pharmaceuticals: 4 patents #7 of 111Top 7%
APAventis Pharmaceuticals: 2 patents #139 of 454Top 35%
SCSchering: 1 patents #1,469 of 2,442Top 65%
S(Syntex (U.S.A.): 1 patents #356 of 599Top 60%
ASAventis Pharma S.A.: 1 patents #304 of 591Top 55%
San Francisco, CA: #125 of 26,999 inventorsTop 1%
California: #2,032 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #12,931 of 4,157,543Top 1%
106 Patents All Time
John O. Link has been granted 106 US patents while listed as an inventor at Gilead Sciences. The first was granted in 1984 and the most recent in December 2025. John O. Link ranks #12,931 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.31%). Patent records list John O. Link in San Francisco, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1984 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 9 patents in 2016.peak 91984: 2 patents19841986: 3 patents2000: 1 patents2002: 1 patents20022003: 1 patents2006: 4 patents2009: 3 patents20092010: 2 patents2011: 2 patents2012: 6 patents20122013: 7 patents2014: 7 patents2015: 8 patents20152016: 9 patents2017: 7 patents2018: 9 patents20182019: 9 patents2020: 6 patents2021: 4 patents20212022: 1 patents2023: 2 patents2024: 7 patents20242025: 5 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 106 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12497408 Tetracyclic compounds and methods for the treatment of Zika virus infection Elbert Chin, Ezra Roberts, James G. Taylor, Zheng Yang 2025-12-16
12479853 HIV inhibitor compounds Elizabeth M. Bacon, Elbert Chin, Jeromy J. Cottell, Ashley Anne Katana, Darryl Kato +3 more 2025-11-25
12404262 Therapeutic compounds for HIV virus infection Gediminas Brizgys, Chienhung Chou, Hang Chu, Julie Farand, Michael Graupe +9 more 2025-09-02
12391683 Therapeutic compounds and methods Ashley Anne Katana 2025-08-19
12187753 Therapeutics compounds for HIV virus infection Julie Farand, Tezcan Guney, Darryl Kato, James B. C. Mack, William J. Watkins 2025-01-07
12084467 Therapeutic compounds for HIV virus infection Zhimin Du, Julie Farand, Tezcan Guney, Darryl Kato, James B. C. Mack +3 more 2024-09-10 $216,607,000
12084455 HIV inhibitor compounds Elizabeth M. Bacon, Elbert Chin, Jeromy J. Cottell, Ashley Anne Katana, Darryl Kato +3 more 2024-09-10 $216,607,000
12077537 Capsid inhibitors for the treatment of HIV Chienhung Chou, Scott E. Lazerwith, Scott D. Schroeder, Winston C. Tse, Jennifer R. Zhang 2024-09-03 $641,277,000
12037340 Pentacyclic derivatives as Zika virus inhibitors Elbert Chin, James G. Taylor, Zheng-Yu Yang 2024-07-16 $290,202,000
11993583 Therapeutic compounds Michael Graupe, Roland D. Saito, Scott D. Schroeder, Dimitrios Stefanidis, Winston C. Tse +1 more 2024-05-28 $420,306,000
11987577 Therapeutic compounds and methods Ashley Anne Katana 2024-05-21
11905299 Cot modulators and methods of use thereof Elizabeth M. Bacon, Gayatri Balan, Chien-Hung Chou, Christopher T. Clark, Jeromy J. Cottell +10 more 2024-02-20 $239,445,000
11787825 Therapeutic compounds for HIV virus infection Julie Farand, Tezcan Guney, Darryl Kato, James B. C. Mack, William J. Watkins 2023-10-17 $284,096,000
11680064 Capsid inhibitors for the treatment of HIV Chienhung Chou, Darryl Kato, Scott E. Lazerwith, Scott D. Schroeder, Winston C. Tse +1 more 2023-06-20 $571,924,000
11318119 HIV protease inhibitors Aesop Cho, Jie Xu 2022-05-03 $394,110,000
11078208 HIV inhibitor compounds Elizabeth M. Bacon, Elbert Chin, Jeromy J. Cottell, Ashley Anne Katana, Darryl Kato +3 more 2021-08-03 $439,671,000
11066414 Cot modulators and methods of use thereof Elizabeth M. Bacon, Gayatri Balan, Chien-Hung Chou, Christopher T. Clark, Jeromy J. Cottell +10 more 2021-07-20 $423,806,000
11052087 Anti-HIV compounds Elbert Chin, Darryl Kato, Nathan D. Shapiro, Zheng-Yu Yang 2021-07-06 $221,939,000
11034668 Compounds for the treatment of HIV Steven S. Bondy, Carina E. Cannizzaro, Chien-Hung Chou, Randall L. Halcomb, Yunfeng Eric Hu +4 more 2021-06-15 $471,454,000
10807990 Antiviral compounds Elizabeth M. Bacon, Jeromy J. Cottell, Ashley Anne Katana, Darryl Kato, Evan S. Krygowski +5 more 2020-10-20
10800789 Antiviral compounds Elizabeth M. Bacon, Jeromy J. Cottell, Teresa Alejandra Trejo Martin 2020-10-13
10752636 HIV inhibitor compounds Elizabeth M. Bacon, Elbert Chin, Jeromy J. Cottell, Ashley Anne Katana, Darryl Kato +3 more 2020-08-25 $743,314,000
10654827 Therapeutic compounds Michael Graupe, Steven J. Henry, Roland D. Saito, Scott D. Schroeder, Dimitrios Stefanidis +2 more 2020-05-19 $799,480,000
10603318 Inhibitors of hepatitis C virus Eda Canales, Jeromy J. Cottell, Kapil Kumar Karki, Ashley Anne Katana, Darryl Kato +15 more 2020-03-31
10577352 Cot modulators and methods of use thereof Gayatri Balan, Chienhung Chou, Musong Kim, Thorsten A. Kirschberg, Gary Phillips +5 more 2020-03-03 $541,278,000