Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Pacifica, CA ranks #710 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 185 patents from 107 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Pacifica, CA include Medtronic, Xencor, Dolby Laboratories Licensing. That works out to 4.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 107 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Douglas Sutton Medtronic 9
2 Gregory Alan Lazar Xencor 6
2 Douglas J. Gorny Dolby Laboratories Licensing 6
2 Michael Graupe Gilead Sciences 6
#5 David Hatch Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 5
#6 Erica J. Tong Apple 4
#6 Jay P. Powers Chemocentryx 4
#6 Patrick Stan Visa 4
#6 Eric Larsen Sony 4
#10 Mark F. Davis Dolby Laboratories Licensing 3
#10 Richard V. Connors Amgen 3
#10 David Chamberlin Rovi Guides 3
#10 Ryan Kelley Rigel Pharmaceuticals 3
#10 Eric L. Stangeland Theravance 3
#10 Christian Gutierrez Verily Life Sciences 3
#10 Ashley Gibson Stubhub 3
#10 Jesse F. Patterson Rovi Guides 3
#10 Ari Bader-Natal Minerva Project 3
#19 Erik Zimmerman Sutro Biopharma 2
#19 Mark S. Gebert Danisco Us 2
#19 Ryan Oksenhorn Zipline International 2
#19 Janice H. Nickel HP 2
#19 Shawn M. Bauer Portola Pharmaceuticals 2
#19 James Schaff Yardarm Technologies 2
#19 Panu James Turcot Affectiva 2
#19 John Gilbert Basf Se 2
#19 Thomas Manessis Visa 2
#19 Gustave Bergnes Cytokinetics 2
#19 Michael Travers Samsung 2
#19 Andrey Yruski Sony 2
#19 Stephen Yui Gopro 2
#19 Kirk Gossage Cambridge Research & Instrumentation 2
#19 Robert Christopher Gaunt Google 2
#19 Clara E. Lee Cisco 2
#19 John Paul Tokash 2
#19 Timothy D. Cushing Amgen 2
#19 Rena Aviva Mizrahi Gigagen 2
#19 Lawrence R. McGee Amgen 2
#19 Georgiy Yakovlev Meta 2
#40 Dustin Michael Byford Broadcom 1
#40 Timothy J. Simpson Somerset Welding & Steel 1
#40 Jeff P. Pucci Danisco Us 1
#40 Edward Lim Xoma 1
#40 Byron Nevins Oracle 1
#40 Hoi L. Young Microsoft 1
#40 Aina E. Cohen Stanford University 1
#40 Kristin Bowles Genentech 1
#40 Evan Lewis Kezar Life Sciences 1
#40 Jerry Chiu Google 1
#40 Olivier Duval Micron 1

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