Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Goleta, CA ranks #431 worldwide for total patents filed in 2020, with 347 patents from 189 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Goleta, CA include Samsung, Intouch Technologies, Cree. That works out to 10.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 189 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Chengjun Sun Samsung 21
2 Marco Pinter Intouch Technologies 12
3 Yulun Wang Intouch Technologies 10
#4 Eric Tarsa Cree 8
#5 Shuji Nakamura University of California 7
#6 Steven P. DenBaars University of California 6
#6 Timothy King Karl Storz Imaging 6
#8 Mallory M. Green Green Hills Software 5
#8 Nikola Valerjev Green Hills Software 5
#8 Hirokuni Asamizu University of California 5
#11 Fuji Lai Intouch Technologies 4
#11 Rongming Chu Hrl Laboratories 4
#11 Brad Short Continental Advanced Lidar Solutions Us 4
#11 Nan Luo Shanutec (Shanghai) Co. 4
#11 Patrick Sean Daugherty University of California 4
#16 Anthony J. Sclafani The Boeing 3
#16 Daniel Wayne Chin Inogen 3
#16 Saeed Bagheri Sereshki Sonos 3
#16 Dennis E. Van Epps AbbVie 3
#16 James Ibbetson Cree 3
#16 Kunal Mukherjee IBM 3
#16 Christiane Elsass Soraa Laser Diode 3
#16 Chandan Bhat Cree 3
#16 Matthew G. Neeley Google 3
#16 Robert S. Patrick Shark Wheel 3
#16 Hsin-Rong Tseng Merck 3
#16 Linjia Mu Cree 3
#16 Maarten van der Heide Sonos 3
#16 Kelton Temby Intouch Technologies 3
#16 James Rogers Apeel Technology 3
#16 Michael Collinson Neotract 3
#16 Igor Mezic Packetsled 3
#33 Shelley Ann Trost 2
#33 David B. Paden Launchpoint Technologies 2
#33 Per Elmfors Flir Systems 2
#33 Christopher Hillyer New York Blood Center 2
#33 Yitian Shao Meta 2
#33 Geetak Gupta Transphorm Technology 2
#33 John Parker Juniper Networks 2
#33 Eric J. Beuville RTX (Raytheon) 2
#33 Anand Ramaswamy Aurrion 2
#33 Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar AT&T 2
#33 Mathew C. Schmidt Soraa Laser Diode 2
#33 Mark Youmans Cree 2
#33 Marcel Tremblay Flir Systems 2
#33 Yogesh Moorjani Citrix Systems 2
#33 Georgios Tzimpragos AMD 2
#33 Bradley E. Paden Launchpoint Technologies 2
#33 Joey Krueger Ergomotion 2
#33 Peter K. Stoimenov Reaction 35 2

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