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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Auburn, CA ranks #3,903 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 27 patents from 23 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Auburn, CA include HP, Enphase Energy, Sumitomo Electric Industries. That works out to 2.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–23 of 23 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Ballard C. Bare HP 3
2 Marv Dargatz Enphase Energy 2
2 Gary Smith Sumitomo Electric Industries 2
#4 Justin Eckhardt Medtronic 1
#4 Patrick Allen Bodwell Asc Profiles 1
#4 Steven Moroz 1
#4 Mick R. Jacobs Cisco 1
#4 Cecil C. Hassard Coil Solutions 1
#4 Ryan B. Ebuen Intermotive 1
#4 Virginia Smith Hewlett Packard Enterprise 1
#4 Darrell Livezey 1
#4 Steven Lahr Hewlett Packard Enterprise 1
#4 Sean Cerniglia HP 1
#4 Thomas A. Keaveny 1
#4 Donald Lee Darnell Edison Nation 1
#4 James Michael Felt Felt Racing 1
#4 David A. Salmassy Unknown 1
#4 Glenn C. Simon HP 1
#4 John Bigley HP 1
#4 Keith S. Thomas Intermotive 1
#4 Jeffery W. Lagges Alldata 1
#4 Patrick A. Bueb HP 1
#4 Arash Ghorbani Moment 1

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