Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Del Mar, CA ranks #328 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 400 patents from 122 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Del Mar, CA include Qualcomm, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Gopro. That works out to 101.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 122 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Aleksandar Damnjanovic Qualcomm 45
2 Vijayalakshmi R. Raveendran Qualcomm 24
3 Jelena Damnjanovic Qualcomm 22
#4 Sean Stevens Regeneron Pharmaceuticals 19
#5 David A. Newman Gopro 17
#5 Daeik Daniel Kim Qualcomm 17
#7 John Hood Samumed 15
#8 Augustin W. Rollinson Callaway Golf 13
#9 James Plante Smartdrive Systems 9
#10 Todd Sutton Qualcomm 6
#10 Scott Hecker Rempex Pharmaceuticals 6
#10 Jeffrey O. Meredith Hoist Fitness Systems 6
#13 Ramin Rezaiifar Qualcomm 5
#13 Gerhard Reitmayr Qualcomm 5
#13 Sam Shifron Watkins Manufacturing 5
#13 Marcelo G. Lima Imthera Medical 5
#13 Eli N. Glezer Meso Scale Technologies, Llc. 5
#13 Cheng-Teh Hsieh Qualcomm 5
#19 David McIntosh Alc Holdings 4
#19 Robert S. Daley Qualcomm 4
#19 Peter Diederik Jan Grootenhuis Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated 4
#19 Karl Y. Hostetler University of California 4
#19 Kevin E. Hunter Sprint Spectrum 4
#19 Roy Howard Davis Qualcomm 4
#19 Steven F. Bierman Venetec International 4
#19 Alexander M. Klibanov Eagle Biologics 4
#19 Aziz Gholmieh Qualcomm 4
#19 Bibhu Mohanty Qualcomm 4
#29 Jean Jacques Abitbol K2M 3
#29 Dan Vassilovski Qualcomm 3
#29 Xue-hai Liang Ionis Pharmaceuticals 3
#29 Greg Sutton Lytx 3
#29 Sandy T. Feldman Cxl Ophthalmics 3
#29 Daniel J. Pippel Johnson & Johnson 3
#29 Abigail Freeman Abbott 3
#36 John G. Gorman Chrome Red Technologies 2
#36 Ravinder Chandhok Qualcomm 2
#36 Stephen Chappell Yellowpages.Com 2
#36 Charles P. Moeller General Atomics 2
#36 David L. Barker Illumina 2
#36 Brian Fudge Divx 2
#36 Rolf Silbert Gen-Probe Incorporated 2
#36 Sudeepto Kumar Roy Aruba Networks 2
#36 Milan Mitrovic Rohr 2
#36 Douglas Phillipson Merck 2
#36 George E. Graddy, Jr. Ferro 2
#36 Mike R. Railey Boomerboard 2
#36 Lioudmila A. Campbell Bionomics Limited 2
#36 Stefan Kanetis 2
#36 Andrew M. Blumenfeld AbbVie 2

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