Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Goleta, CA ranks #365 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 352 patents from 192 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Goleta, CA include Flir Systems, Samsung, Intouch Technologies. That works out to 10.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 192 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Pierre Boulanger Flir Systems 14
2 Chengjun Sun Samsung 11
3 Mark Nussmeier Flir Systems 10
#4 Yulun Wang Intouch Technologies 8
#5 Steven P. DenBaars University of California 6
#5 Marco Pinter Intouch Technologies 6
#5 Jeffrey D. Frank Flir Systems 6
#8 Patrick Sean Daugherty University of California 5
#8 Derrick S. Kamber Slt Technologies 5
#8 Rongming Chu Hrl Laboratories 5
#11 Kunal Mukherjee IBM 4
#11 Yifeng Wu Cree 4
#11 Dwight Dumpert Flir Systems 4
#11 Vu L. Nguyen Flir Systems 4
#11 Craig A. Andreiko Ormco 4
#11 Timothy King Karl Storz Imaging 4
#17 Justin Gordon Adams Wehner RTX (Raytheon) 3
#17 Eric Tarsa Cree 3
#17 Mallory M. Green Green Hills Software 3
#17 Mathew C. Schmidt Soraa Laser Diode 3
#17 Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar AT&T 3
#17 Shuji Nakamura University of California 3
#17 Sergey Osechinskiy Bruker Nano 3
#17 Shravanthi T. Reddy Sharklet Technologies 3
#17 Phillip Kelly Green Hills Software 3
#17 Austin A. Richards Flir Systems 3
#17 Gregory A. Carlson Innovative Micro Technology 3
#17 Adam M. Kennedy RTX (Raytheon) 3
#17 Nikola Valerjev Green Hills Software 3
#17 John Parker Juniper Networks 3
#17 Sankaran Panchapagesan Amazon 3
#17 Michael Collinson Neotract 3
#17 Maarten van der Heide Sonos 3
#17 Mark Gregory Belding Karl Storz Imaging 3
#35 David B. Paden Launchpoint Technologies 2
#35 James Rogers Apeel Technology 2
#35 Brad Short Continental Advanced Lidar Solutions Us 2
#35 Amante Mangaser Intouch Technologies 2
#35 Stephen C. Minne Veeco Instruments 2
#35 Matthew Buoni Sonos 2
#35 Kin Ming Kwan Lexmark International 2
#35 Dmitri Strukov HP 2
#35 Arthur Stout Flir Systems 2
#35 Paul K. Hansma University of California 2
#35 Romeo Chahine Seek Thermal 2
#35 Mike Augarten Apollo Endosurgery 2
#35 Robert Frankel 2
#35 Jerry Thomas Cytomx Therapeutics 2
#35 Naseem Y. Aziz Flir Systems 2
#35 Vijaysekhar Jayaraman Praevium Research 2

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