Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Pacifica, CA ranks #676 worldwide for total patents filed in 2020, with 224 patents from 111 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Pacifica, CA include Medtronic, Chemocentryx, Dolby Laboratories Licensing. That works out to 5.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 111 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Douglas Sutton Medtronic 15
2 Jay P. Powers Chemocentryx 9
3 Douglas J. Gorny Dolby Laboratories Licensing 8
#4 Patrick Stan Visa 7
#4 Scott A. Mercer Volta Charging 7
#6 Javier Fernandez Rico Sony 6
#6 David Hatch Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 6
#6 Alex Prodaniuk Volta Charging 6
#9 Panu James Turcot Affectiva 5
#9 Eric L. Stangeland Theravance 5
#11 Gregory Alan Lazar Xencor 4
#11 Jon Dukershein Samsonite Ip Holdings S.A R.L. 4
#11 Thomas Manessis Visa 4
#11 Bilgehan Avser Apple 4
#11 Ari Bader-Natal Minerva Project 4
#11 Michael Graupe Gilead Sciences 4
#11 Victor Lim Agilent Technologies 4
#18 Clara E. Lee Cisco 3
#18 James Alan MISENER Qualcomm 3
#18 David Chamberlin Rovi Guides 3
#18 Erica J. Tong Apple 3
#18 Gustave Bergnes Cytokinetics 3
#18 Brendan Berman Brainsoft 3
#24 Yichuan Gui Climate 2
#24 Jennifer Kozak Theravance Biopharma R&D Ip 2
#24 Olivier Duval Micron 2
#24 Christian Gutierrez Verily Life Sciences 2
#24 Kristin Bowles Genentech 2
#24 Georgiy Yakovlev Meta 2
#24 Emily Mirro Neuropace 2
#24 Jesse F. Patterson Rovi Guides 2
#24 Derek Gladding Microsoft 2
#24 Lawrence R. McGee Amgen 2
#24 James Schaff Yardarm Technologies 2
#24 Thomas P. Graycar Genencor International 2
#24 Rajvir Dahiya University of California 2
#24 Eric Larsen Sony 2
#24 Ankit Rohatgi General Motors 2
#24 Stephen Yui Gopro 2
#40 Fumito Kayama Aeris Communications 1
#40 Azhar Kamal Meyer Microsoft 1
#40 Daniel T. Lagoe Angiodynamics 1
#40 Joel McIntosh Roche Palo Alto 1
#40 Robert Alan Clements GE 1
#40 Maria Stone Oath 1
#40 Lidia Sambucetti Novartis Ag 1
#40 Conner Stuart Richardson Apple 1
#40 Bradley Hamilton Wolfe Corvus Pharmaceuticals 1
#40 Richard V. Connors Amgen 1
#40 Andrey Yruski Sony 1

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