Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Davis, CA ranks #416 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 313 patents from 200 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Davis, CA include Sureharvest, Kla-Tencor, Nec. That works out to 4.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 200 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Clifford P. Ohmart Sureharvest 11
2 Kenong Wu Kla-Tencor 8
3 Junqiang Hu Nec 7
3 Lori Lisa Carrigan Pioneer (Corteva) 7
#5 Dwight P. Morejohn Sadra Medical 6
#5 Debbie Yaver Novozymes 6
#7 Kit S. Lam University of California 5
#7 Jerry M. Woodall IBM 5
#9 Mark Wogulis Novozymes 4
#9 William J. Byrne Google 4
#9 Hongmin Chen Futurewei Technologies 4
#9 Haiyan Ge The Dial 4
#13 Pamela Marrone Marrone Bio Innovations 3
#13 Bogdan Copos Fujitsu Limited 3
#13 Elena Vlasenko Novozymes 3
#13 Clayton T. McKee Bio-Rad Laboratories 3
#13 Behrooz Khorashadi Qualcomm 3
#13 Shuangyu Chang Microsoft 3
#13 Cai-Zhong Jiang Mendel Biotechnology 3
#13 Srinivas Vuddagiri Lummus Technology 3
#13 Jeffrey Shasky Novozymes 3
#13 Pamela Ronald University of California 3
#13 Bryan James Google 3
#24 Karen A. McDonald University of California 2
#24 Adam M. McCoy Bio-Rad Laboratories 2
#24 Zhongli Pan USDA 2
#24 Xinfan Lin Ford 2
#24 Meghan Kathleen Murphy Vision Service Plan 2
#24 Kin Sing Lee University of California 2
#24 Mohammad Sadoghi Hamedani IBM 2
#24 Jill Deikman Monsanto Technology 2
#24 Alfredo Lopez de Leon Novozymes 2
#24 Keith McFarland Novozymes 2
#24 Bernhard Sturm Philips Image Guided Therapy 2
#24 Stephen Bates Cargill, Incorporated 2
#24 Patrick Schwientek Bayer Cropscience 2
#24 Toni Voelker Monsanto Technology 2
#24 Li Xing University of California 2
#24 Daniel E. Vaughan Unknown 2
#24 Gerry Pesavento Yahoo Holdings 2
#24 Ratnakar Asolkar Marrone Bio Innovations 2
#24 Robert Van Vorhis 2
#24 Andrew Frank Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha 2
#24 Graham J. Hymus Koch Biological Solutions 2
#24 Theresa Forni Bio-Rad Laboratories 2
#24 William Dawson Kesling Intel 2
#24 Prasant Mohapatra University of California 2
#24 Phillip Rogaway IBM 2
#24 Jindan Zhu Hewlett Packard Enterprise 2
#24 Bryce W. Falk University of California 2

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