Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Merced, CA ranks #3,214 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 35 patents from 26 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Merced, CA include Rovi Guides, L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme Pour L'Etude Et L'Exploitation Des Procedes Georges Claude, Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated. That works out to 0.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–26 of 26 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Herbert A. Waterman Rovi Guides 3
1 Raja Swaidan L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme Pour L'Etude Et L'Exploitation Des Procedes Georges Claude 3
1 Tolga Kurtoglu Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated 3
#4 Danny Bennett Samsung 2
#4 Yu Hui Northwestern University 2
#4 Daniel Lee Gasper Malibu Boats 2
#7 Narinder Walia Incyte 1
#7 Anthony Jorgenson Infinera 1
#7 Ramesh Iyer Infinera 1
#7 Michael A. Robinson Avago Technologies General Ip (Singapore) Pte. 1
#7 Yue Chen Broadcom 1
#7 Bryan Walter Munday Malibu Boats 1
#7 Vadim Zavila Nri R&D Patent Licensing 1
#7 William Bright Texas Instruments 1
#7 Timothy Michael Lopes Malibu Boats 1
#7 Jessica Leandro Hexcel 1
#7 Bhushan Kolleri 1
#7 Sonja Hoffman Hemelrijk Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories 1
#7 Kelly Lee Pirtle 1
#7 Malay Desai Broadcom 1
#7 Lun Jiang University of California 1
#7 Russell K. Mukai Dell Products 1
#7 Kiran Kumar Kodeboina 1
#7 Saj Shetty Nook Digital 1
#7 Roland Winston 3M 1
#7 James Palko Stanford University 1

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