Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Pacifica, CA ranks #668 worldwide for total patents filed in 2019, with 229 patents from 119 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Pacifica, CA include Visa, Chemocentryx, Dolby Laboratories Licensing. That works out to 5.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 119 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Patrick Stan Visa 13
2 Jay P. Powers Chemocentryx 11
3 Douglas J. Gorny Dolby Laboratories Licensing 7
#4 Eric Larsen Sony 6
#4 David Hatch Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 6
#6 Javier Fernandez Rico Sony 5
#6 David Chamberlin Rovi Guides 5
#6 Mark F. Davis Dolby Laboratories Licensing 5
#6 Erica J. Tong Apple 5
#6 Douglas Sutton Medtronic 5
#11 Nathaniel G. Butlin Lumiphore 4
#11 Georgiy Yakovlev Meta 4
#11 Jerome Deval Alios Biopharma 4
#11 Artem Mishin Soraa 4
#11 Christine B. McGavran Apple 4
#11 Gregory Alan Lazar Xencor 4
#11 Paul Summerson Bose 4
#11 Oliver T. Bayley Yahoo Holdings 4
#19 Panu James Turcot Affectiva 3
#19 Ryan Kelley Rigel Pharmaceuticals 3
#19 Clara E. Lee Cisco 3
#19 Eric L. Stangeland Theravance 3
#23 Howard David Jaffe Uber Technologies 2
#23 Olivier Duval Micron 2
#23 William D. Carpenter Transitions Optical 2
#23 Martin Yue Choy Applied Materials 2
#23 Daniel J. Bechstein Apple 2
#23 Fumito Kayama Aeris Communications 2
#23 Leon Volfovski Applied Materials 2
#23 Kyle Barton Lookout 2
#23 Allam Bitar 2
#23 STEVEN D GRUVER Pioneer (Corteva) 2
#23 Phil Golyshko Rovi Guides 2
#23 Doug Sutton The Foundry 2
#23 Brandon J. Rice Apple 2
#23 Ryan Oksenhorn Zipline International 2
#23 Lawrence R. McGee Amgen 2
#23 Victor Lim Agilent Technologies 2
#23 Donald James Reynolds Starkey Laboratories 2
#23 Rena Aviva Mizrahi Gigagen 2
#23 Jesse F. Patterson Rovi Guides 2
#23 Glen Eugene Mikesell Bristol-Myers Squibb 2
#43 Rob Marquardt Rovi Guides 1
#43 Derek Gladding Microsoft 1
#43 John E. Magee Concentric Birmingham Limited 1
#43 Etan Lightstone New Relic 1
#43 John Paul Tokash 1
#43 Raquel IVERSON Genentech 1
#43 Daniel Nicholas Peknik 1
#43 Joaquin Cruz Blas, Jr. Adobe 1

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