Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Merced, CA ranks #2,971 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 40 patents from 25 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Merced, CA include Northwestern University, Malibu Boats, Broadcom. That works out to 0.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–25 of 25 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Yu Hui Northwestern University 3
1 Timothy Michael Lopes Malibu Boats 3
1 Yue Chen Broadcom 3
1 Daniel Lee Gasper Malibu Boats 3
#5 Bryan Walter Munday Malibu Boats 2
#5 Soma Sundaram Santhiveeran HP 2
#5 Tolga Kurtoglu Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated 2
#5 Srinivas Yelisetty Accenture Global Solutions Limited 2
#5 Sonja Hoffman Hemelrijk Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories 2
#5 Guneet Sethi Amazon 2
#5 Raja Swaidan L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme Pour L'Etude Et L'Exploitation Des Procedes Georges Claude 2
#12 Liang Bao Genentech 1
#12 Michael Scheibner University of California 1
#12 Kiran B. Suresh Netscout Systems Texas 1
#12 Thomas Bryan University of California 1
#12 Brian Walter Munday Malibu Boats 1
#12 Jeff Ramer Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 1
#12 Mengfeng Tsai AT&T 1
#12 Ramesh Iyer Infinera 1
#12 Narinder Walia Incyte 1
#12 Michael A. Robinson Avago Technologies General Ip (Singapore) Pte. 1
#12 Alan Waterman Rovi Guides 1
#12 Steven Keith Slocum 1
#12 Danny Bennett Samsung 1
#12 Aaron Lott D-Wave Systems 1

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