Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Santa Fe, NM ranks #877 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 146 patents from 71 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Santa Fe, NM include IBM, Electrocore, Meltz. That works out to 1.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 71 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 James R. Kraemer IBM 32
2 Bruce J. Simon Electrocore 16
3 Paul Kalenian Meltz 7
#4 Farhad Khosravi Incept 4
#4 Joseph Vargas Hand Held Products 4
#6 Sandra Dalvit Dunn Science Engineering Associates 3
#6 Cleve Moler The Mathworks 3
#6 Daniel J. Kane The Boeing 3
#9 Sattva Ananda 2
#9 Mark A. Stibich Xenex Disinfection Services 2
#9 Rodolfo A. Martinez Los Alamos National Security 2
#9 Steven A. Shubin, Jr. Unknown 2
#9 Peter Vennema L.E. Jones 2
#9 Kristen A. Peterson Southwest Sciences Incorporated 2
#9 Simon Stertzer Biocardia 2
#9 Andrew S. Van Luchene Walker Digital 2
#9 Paul A. Johnson Chevron 2
#9 John M. Cross 2
#9 David W. Beck Chevron 2
#20 Nathaniel Porter 1
#20 James Stephen Fields, Jr. IBM 1
#20 Peter C. Stair Northwestern University 1
#20 Farid G. Mitri Chevron 1
#20 Edwin L. Crow Hoffmann-La Roche 1
#20 Robert C. Habbersett Los Alamos National Security 1
#20 Diane Oyen Nec 1
#20 Gordon Arlan Schaeffer, III 1
#20 Leroy Rise Stc.Unm 1
#20 Karl Andrew Stolleis Stc.Unm 1
#20 John W. Elling WARF 1
#20 Djuro G. Zrilic Unknown 1
#20 Michael Paul Humbert Otis Elevator 1
#20 Alexandre Chigaev Stc.Unm 1
#20 Pamela L. Barber Image Ware Software 1
#20 Andrew Ungerleider Earthstone International 1
#20 Christina Sue Babcock Gessler 1
#20 Alexander Koglin Los Alamos National Security 1
#20 James Daniel Montoya Chevron 1
#20 Raymond Thorson Newell Los Alamos National Security 1
#20 Wayne Darnell 1
#20 Heathcliff L. Vaz Energy Related Devices 1
#20 Joel A. Silver Southwest Sciences Incorporated 1
#20 Adonata Pyaga 1
#20 Olaf Martin Lubeck Lyft 1
#20 Gregory Thorn Springer HP 1
#20 Chantal Lau 1
#20 David W. Steedman Triad National Security 1
#20 Kano Jessica Garrett 1
#20 Scott N. Twary Los Alamos National Security 1
#20 Carlos J. Navas Energy Related Devices 1

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