Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Davis, CA ranks #547 worldwide for total patents filed in 2020, with 279 patents from 182 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Davis, CA include Disney, Pioneer (Corteva), Google. That works out to 4.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 182 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Mark Meyer Disney 8
2 Julie Ho Pioneer (Corteva) 6
2 William J. Byrne Google 6
#4 Clayton T. McKee Bio-Rad Laboratories 5
#4 Kit S. Lam University of California 5
#6 Hongmin Chen Futurewei Technologies 4
#6 Bruce D. Hammock University of California 4
#6 Jishang Wei HP 4
#6 David A. Mills University of California 4
#10 Zhongxian Gu Datometry 3
#10 Dwight P. Morejohn Sadra Medical 3
#10 Craig Joseph Mills Hewlett Packard Enterprise 3
#10 Justin Siegel University Of Washington 3
#10 Debora Wilk Marrone Bio Innovations 3
#10 Ana Lucia Cordova-Kreylos Pro Farm Group 3
#10 Debbie Yaver Novozymes 3
#10 Carlito B. Lebrilla University of California 3
#10 Curt Wiedenhoefer Consensus Orthopedics 3
#10 Srinivas Vuddagiri Lummus Technology 3
#10 Meghan Kathleen Murphy Vision Service Plan 3
#10 Alyssa Panitch Purdue Research Foundation 3
#10 Pamela Marrone Marrone Bio Innovations 3
#10 Theodore Superak Hm.Clause 3
#10 Brian S. Higgins Nalco Mobotec 3
#25 Donna Moyer Novo Nordisk Biotech 2
#25 Jeffrey Allen Leshuk Carrier 2
#25 Gerry Pesavento Yahoo Holdings 2
#25 Mark A. Havstad Terrapower 2
#25 Keith McFarland Novozymes 2
#25 Kenong Wu Kla-Tencor 2
#25 Siwei Fu 2
#25 Susan M. Royalty Aerie Pharmaceuticals 2
#25 Joseph M. Anderson RTX (Raytheon) 2
#25 Elena Vlasenko Novozymes 2
#25 Sung-Joo Ben Yoo University of California 2
#25 Gina Katharine Von Damm Clover Leaf Environmental Solutions 2
#25 Essam Enan Tyratech 2
#25 Mohammad Sadoghi Hamedani IBM 2
#25 Benjamin Gordon 2
#25 Carey Huscroft HP 2
#25 Jeffrey Shasky Novozymes 2
#25 Bryan James Google 2
#25 Brogan Carl Miller Sensel 2
#25 Nathaniel Jiang S. C. Johnson & Son 2
#25 Todd J. Green Basf Se 2
#25 Carly Todd Marrone Bio Innovations 2
#25 J. Bruce German University of California 2
#25 Lori Lisa Carrigan Pioneer (Corteva) 2
#25 Stavros Vougioukas University of California 2
#25 Linglin Wu University of California 2

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