Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Carlsbad, CA ranks #89 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 1,143 patents from 504 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Carlsbad, CA include Maxlinear, Apple, The Invention Science Fund I. That works out to 10.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 504 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Curtis Ling Maxlinear 46
2 Tarik Tabet Apple 30
3 Michael A. Smith The Invention Science Fund I 18
#4 Matthew Myers Callaway Golf 13
#4 Todd P. Beach Taylor Made Golf Company 13
#6 Wolfgang Hinz Thermo Fisher 12
#6 Muhammed Zeyd Coban Qualcomm 12
#8 Brandon D. DeMille Callaway Golf 11
#8 Scott R. Manwaring Callaway Golf 11
#8 Todd James Harris Sienna Biopharmaceuticals 11
#8 Stuart B. Molin Silanna Asia Pte 11
#12 Larry G. Tang Callaway Golf 10
#12 Stephen S. Murphy Acushnet 10
#12 Michael Bentley Blast Motion 10
#12 Michael A. Stuber Qualcomm 10
#12 Daniel Lambert Lytx 10
#17 James A. Seluga Callaway Golf 9
#17 C. Frank Bennett Isis Pharmaceuticals 9
#17 Uday V. Deshmukh Acushnet 9
#17 Sridhar Ramesh Maxlinear 9
#17 Bradley C. Rice Callaway Golf 9
#17 Ankitkumar Patel Nec Laboratories America 9
#23 Wee Joung Kim Callaway Golf 8
#23 Lai Kan Leung Qualcomm 8
#23 Ted Dunn Sony 8
#26 Sivagnanam Parthasarathy Micron 7
#26 Thomas Orrin Bennett Acushnet 7
#26 Thomas L. Grey Invuity 7
#26 Francesco Carobolante 7
#26 Scott Powell Broadcom 7
#26 Simon Yang Airgain 7
#26 Stephanie Bezilla Acushnet 7
#33 Thomas G. Gant Auspex Pharmaceuticals 6
#33 Glenn Chang Maxlinear 6
#33 Guangyi Wang Alios Biopharma 6
#33 Peter L. Soracco Acushnet 6
#33 Junko Tamiya Receptos 6
#33 Victor Manuel Moreno Cisco 6
#33 Lew G. Chua-Eoan Qualcomm 6
#40 Kevin P. Dacey Callaway Golf 5
#40 Karl A. Clausen Cobra Golf Incorporated 5
#40 Tim Hitchman Dsm Ip Assets B.V. 5
#40 Lee F. Hartley Advanced Bionics Ag 5
#40 Lawrence Farhat Covidien Lp 5
#40 Douglas E. Roberts Cobra Golf Incorporated 5
#40 Punit P. Seth Ionis Pharmaceuticals 5
#47 David Bartels Callaway Golf 4
#47 Shane Parnell Callaway Golf 4
#47 Robert J. Boock Dexcom 4
#47 Michael Foxworthy Viasat 4

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