Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Carlsbad, CA ranks #111 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 1,174 patents from 516 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Carlsbad, CA include Micron, Qualcomm, Taylor Made Golf Company. That works out to 10.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 516 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Sivagnanam Parthasarathy Micron 25
2 Muhammed Zeyd Coban Qualcomm 24
3 Todd P. Beach Taylor Made Golf Company 20
3 Tarik Tabet Apple 20
#5 David Bartels Callaway Golf 19
#6 Don T. Cameron Hasbro 16
#7 Kevin M. McCluskey Intuit 15
#8 Andrew Geall Glaxosmithkline Biologicals Sa 12
#9 Hussein S. El-Ghoroury Ostendo Technologies 11
#10 Ruth Kobayashi Dümmen Group B.V. 10
#10 Attila Mekis Luxtera 10
#10 Jeremy Stigall Philips Image Guided Therapy 10
#10 Adeel Abbas Gopro 10
#14 Punit P. Seth Ionis Pharmaceuticals 9
#14 John Langan Carefusion 303 9
#14 Christopher John Harbert Taylor Made Golf Company 9
#17 Norbert D. Hagen Gen-Probe Incorporated 8
#17 Jason Palmer Smartdrive Systems 8
#19 Gianlorenzo Masini Luxtera 7
#19 Lakshmi N. Mishra Advanced Bionics Ag 7
#19 Matthew Myers Callaway Golf 7
#19 Hong G. Jeon Taylor Made Golf Company 7
#19 Peter G. Schultz Scripps Research 7
#19 Frank Rigo Ionis Pharmaceuticals 7
#19 Alexander Nicholas Pozzi B/E Aerospace 7
#19 Jason A. Mata Acushnet 7
#19 Jeffrey M. Gross Canary Medical 7
#19 Christopher Fonzo Arlo Technologies 7
#29 Ahmad Reza Hedayat Newracom 6
#29 Anthony J. Toulon Callaway Golf 6
#29 Joseph Henry Hoffman Taylor Made Golf Company 6
#29 Michelle Penney Taylor Made Golf Company 6
#29 Curtis Ling Maxlinear 6
#29 Wee Joung Kim Callaway Golf 6
#29 Robert J. Boock Dexcom 6
#36 James A. Seluga Callaway Golf 5
#36 Robert Rosati Zamtec 5
#36 Matthew J. Phillips Hon Technology 5
#36 David S. Baker Sydnexis 5
#36 Qian Fan Suzhou Han Hua Semiconductor Co. 5
#36 Niall Patrick Casey Carlsmed 5
#36 Simon Prince Illumina 5
#36 Victor Manuel Moreno Cisco 5
#36 Richard C. Yang Dexcom 5
#36 Lee F. Hartley Advanced Bionics Ag 5
#36 Erik Williamson Illumina 5
#36 Tumay Kanar Integrated Device Technology 5
#36 Theo Nikiforov Thermo Fisher 5
#36 Sanaz Barghi Qualcomm 5
#36 Thomas Orrin Bennett Acushnet 5

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