Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Del Mar, CA ranks #336 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 357 patents from 119 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Del Mar, CA include Qualcomm, Callaway Golf, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. That works out to 90.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 119 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Aleksandar Damnjanovic Qualcomm 51
2 Jelena Damnjanovic Qualcomm 25
3 Daeik Daniel Kim Qualcomm 20
#4 Vijayalakshmi R. Raveendran Qualcomm 18
#5 Augustin W. Rollinson Callaway Golf 16
#6 Sean Stevens Regeneron Pharmaceuticals 14
#7 Bibhu Mohanty Qualcomm 10
#8 John Hood Samumed 9
#9 Ramin Rezaiifar Qualcomm 7
#10 Aziz Gholmieh Qualcomm 6
#10 David A. Newman Gopro 6
#12 David Weiner Verenium 5
#13 Greg Sutton Lytx 4
#13 Robert S. Daley Qualcomm 4
#13 Scott Hecker Rempex Pharmaceuticals 4
#13 Gerhard Reitmayr Qualcomm 4
#13 Daniel J. Pippel Johnson & Johnson 4
#18 Ravinder Chandhok Qualcomm 3
#18 Jackaline D. Julien Aragon Pharmaceuticals 3
#18 Kevin E. Hunter Sprint Spectrum 3
#18 Eugene Shoshtaev Nuvasive 3
#18 Marcelo G. Lima Imthera Medical 3
#18 Geert W. Schmid-Schonbein University of California 3
#18 Kamran Moallemi Qualcomm 3
#18 Vlad Edward Gregor Chembridge 3
#18 David McIntosh Alc Holdings 3
#18 Karl Y. Hostetler University of California 3
#18 Peter Diederik Jan Grootenhuis Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated 3
#18 William Raggio General Atomics 3
#18 Daljit S. Dhanoa Merck 3
#31 Andrew M. Blumenfeld AbbVie 2
#31 Cheng-Teh Hsieh Qualcomm 2
#31 Steven M. Barnard Illumina 2
#31 Eli N. Glezer Meso Scale Technologies, Llc. 2
#31 Ian Galton University of California 2
#31 William R. Freeman Finisar 2
#31 Waleed Danho Hoffmann-La Roche 2
#31 John G. Gorman Chrome Red Technologies 2
#31 Don W. Cleveland Ionis Pharmaceuticals 2
#31 Alan M. Gordon Fresca Medical 2
#31 Bertin Rudolph Cordova-Diba 2
#31 James C. Paulson Cytel 2
#31 Bronislava Gedulin Amylin Pharmaceuticals 2
#31 Donn K. Harms 2
#31 Todd Sutton Qualcomm 2
#31 Brian Fudge Divx 2
#31 James Plante Smartdrive Systems 2
#31 Mark D. Erion Metabasis Therapeutics 2
#31 Jeffrey O. Meredith Hoist Fitness Systems 2
#31 Katherine S. Bowdish Alexion Pharmaceuticals 2

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