Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Pacifica, CA ranks #696 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 194 patents from 98 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Pacifica, CA include Chemocentryx, Dolby Laboratories Licensing, Amgen. That works out to 5.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 98 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Jay P. Powers Chemocentryx 11
2 Mark F. Davis Dolby Laboratories Licensing 10
3 Lawrence R. McGee Amgen 9
#4 Douglas Sutton Medtronic 8
#4 Gregory Alan Lazar Xencor 8
#6 Christine B. McGavran Apple 7
#6 Michael Graupe Gilead Sciences 7
#6 Richard V. Connors Amgen 7
#6 Patrick Stan Visa 7
#10 Leon Volfovski Applied Materials 4
#10 Eric L. Stangeland Theravance 4
#10 Brian Hein Yahoo Holdings 4
#13 Tyler Mincey Apple 3
#13 Eric Larsen Sony 3
#15 Robert Christopher Gaunt Google 2
#15 Azhar Kamal Meyer Microsoft 2
#15 Ari Bader-Natal Minerva Project 2
#15 Phil Golyshko Rovi Guides 2
#15 Shawn M. Bauer Portola Pharmaceuticals 2
#15 Vadim Dymshyts Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories 2
#15 Kam Sheng Leang Amazon 2
#15 Kyle Barton Lookout 2
#15 Ashley Gibson Stubhub 2
#15 Derek Gladding Microsoft 2
#15 Danette Dudley Genentech 2
#15 Joaquin Cruz Blas, Jr. Adobe 2
#15 Michael Sellers GE 2
#15 Thomas Manessis Visa 2
#15 Craig Cummings Thermo Fisher 2
#15 Jordan A. Kestler Google 2
#15 Gustave Bergnes Cytokinetics 2
#15 John Gilbert Basf Se 2
#33 Amul Patel 1
#33 Zev Jordan Gartner Harvard University 1
#33 Michael F. Christian Yahoo Holdings 1
#33 Jennifer Kozak Theravance Biopharma R&D Ip 1
#33 Ricardo Penate Verizon 1
#33 Mark S. Stanley Genentech 1
#33 Warham Lance Martin 1
#33 Jeff Chandler Dolby Laboratories Licensing 1
#33 Olivier Duval Micron 1
#33 Paul Anthony Rose Worldpay 1
#33 David Hatch Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 1
#33 Michael Zaven Demerjian Gopro 1
#33 Merriam E. Pabonan 1
#33 Gregory Hirsch Unknown 1
#33 Thomas P. Graycar Genencor International 1
#33 Erik Zimmerman Sutro Biopharma 1
#33 Erica J. Tong Apple 1
#33 Matthew J. Walters Chemocentryx 1

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