Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Merced, CA ranks #2,739 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 42 patents from 32 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Merced, CA include HP, Malibu Boats, The Boc Group Limited. That works out to 0.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–32 of 32 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Soma Sundaram Santhiveeran HP 3
1 Daniel Lee Gasper Malibu Boats 3
1 Ravi Jain The Boc Group Limited 3
#4 Yu Hui Northwestern University 2
#4 Liang Bao Genentech 2
#4 Crist Y. Lu Sitime 2
#4 Tolga Kurtoglu Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated 2
#8 Dimitar Gargov Optimal Ranging 1
#8 Ryan Baxter University of California 1
#8 Mary Hermosillo 1
#8 Danny Bennett Samsung 1
#8 Wendy Bright 1
#8 William Bright Texas Instruments 1
#8 Michael Dunlap Brother Kogyo 1
#8 Malay Desai Broadcom 1
#8 Sonja Hoffman Hemelrijk Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories 1
#8 Sihai Xiao Tvworks 1
#8 Gerardo C. Diaz University of California 1
#8 Anthony Grimes University of California 1
#8 Yue Chen Broadcom 1
#8 Donald J. Stewart Chrysler Group 1
#8 Meng-Lin Tsao Scripps Research 1
#8 Chien-Hung Cheng Asia Vital Components Co. 1
#8 Russell K. Mukai Dell Products 1
#8 Ajay Gopinathan University of California 1
#8 Gregory Martin Mast Pulsar Vascular 1
#8 Chi-Shuo Chen University of California 1
#8 Saj Shetty Nook Digital 1
#8 Roland Winston 3M 1
#8 Sayantani Ghosh University of California 1
#8 Clarissa J. Nobile University of California 1
#8 Thomas Bryan University of California 1

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