Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Davis, CA ranks #457 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 271 patents from 165 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Davis, CA include Sadra Medical, Qualcomm, Pioneer (Corteva). That works out to 4.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 165 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Dwight P. Morejohn Sadra Medical 12
2 Behrooz Khorashadi Qualcomm 7
2 Lori Lisa Carrigan Pioneer (Corteva) 7
2 Pamela Marrone Marrone Bio Innovations 7
#5 Debbie Yaver Novozymes 6
#5 William J. Byrne Google 6
#5 Junqiang Hu Nec 6
#8 Alyssa Panitch Purdue Research Foundation 5
#8 Marja Koivunen Marrone Bio Innovations 5
#8 William Dawson Kesling Intel 5
#8 Ratnakar Asolkar Marrone Bio Innovations 5
#12 Srinivas Vuddagiri Lummus Technology 3
#12 Hongmin Chen Futurewei Technologies 3
#12 Kwok Kuen (David) Kwong Hong Kong Applied Science And Technology Research Institute Company Limited 3
#12 Kenong Wu Kla-Tencor 3
#12 Douglas V. Shaw University of California 3
#12 Alfredo Lopez de Leon Novozymes 3
#12 Ana Lucia Cordova-Kreylos Pro Farm Group 3
#12 Elena Vlasenko Novozymes 3
#12 Amanda Fischer Novozymes 3
#12 Michael Rey Novozymes 3
#22 Joseph M. Anderson RTX (Raytheon) 2
#22 Parastoo Yaghmaee Enwave 2
#22 Mark Meyer Disney 2
#22 Clifford P. Ohmart Sureharvest 2
#22 Ahmed Ahmedin Polaris Wireless 2
#22 Craig Joseph Mills Hewlett Packard Enterprise 2
#22 Sung-Joo Ben Yoo University of California 2
#22 Shota Atsumi University of California 2
#22 Amanda Fisher O2Cool 2
#22 Eduardo Alexandre Barros E Silva Forsyth Dental Infirmary For Children 2
#22 Andrew Frank Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha 2
#22 Shuangyu Chang Microsoft 2
#22 Joseph Earl Schmidt Bayer Cropscience 2
#22 Thomas M. Gradziel University of California 2
#22 Keith McFarland Novozymes 2
#22 W. Dawson Kesling Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties 2
#22 Bernhard Sturm Philips Image Guided Therapy 2
#22 Susan M. Royalty Aerie Pharmaceuticals 2
#22 Ken Foster Exatec 2
#22 Donna Moyer Novo Nordisk Biotech 2
#22 Ara Stephanian Atricure 2
#22 Jose P. Allarey Intel 2
#22 Daniel E. Vaughan Unknown 2
#22 Michael Serhan Drive Medical Design & Manufacturing 2
#22 Jeffrey Shasky Novozymes 2
#22 Carey Huscroft HP 2
#48 Pieter Stroeve University of California 1
#48 Mark Wogulis Novozymes 1
#48 Janine Lin Novozymes 1

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