Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Del Mar, CA ranks #461 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 306 patents from 95 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Del Mar, CA include Qualcomm, Callaway Golf, Gopro. That works out to 77.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 95 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Aleksandar Damnjanovic Qualcomm 58
2 Augustin W. Rollinson Callaway Golf 21
3 David A. Newman Gopro 16
#4 Aziz Gholmieh Qualcomm 15
#5 Sean Stevens Regeneron Pharmaceuticals 12
#5 Eli N. Glezer Meso Scale Technologies, Llc. 12
#7 Eugene Shoshtaev Nuvasive 8
#8 Cheng-Teh Hsieh Qualcomm 7
#8 Jelena Damnjanovic Qualcomm 7
#10 John Hood Samumed 6
#11 Daeik Daniel Kim Qualcomm 5
#11 Nidhi Pai Zerobrush 5
#11 Rolf Silbert Gen-Probe Incorporated 5
#14 Akash Pai Zerobrush 4
#14 Jeffrey O. Meredith Hoist Fitness Systems 4
#14 Dan Vassilovski Qualcomm 4
#14 James P. Harrington Acushnet 4
#18 Peter Diederik Jan Grootenhuis Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated 3
#18 Allan Wegner Decision Sciences International 3
#18 Steven M. Barnard Illumina 3
#18 Barry E. Rothenberg Billups-Rothenberg 3
#18 Ranadeep Dutta Qualcomm 3
#18 Graham Bradley Davis Qualcomm 3
#18 Brian Fudge Divx 3
#18 Vijayalakshmi R. Raveendran Qualcomm 3
#18 Michael A. Ploof Dexcom 3
#27 Robert Steven Kania Pfizer 2
#27 Daniel Esbensen Touch Technologies 2
#27 Sandy T. Feldman Cxl Ophthalmics 2
#27 Daniel J. Pippel Johnson & Johnson 2
#27 William G. Rice US Dept of Health & Human Services 2
#27 Gerhard Reitmayr Qualcomm 2
#27 Ramin Rezaiifar Qualcomm 2
#27 Carl Tedesco Chilldyne 2
#27 Roger Heim University of California 2
#27 Bibhu Mohanty Qualcomm 2
#27 Todd Sutton Qualcomm 2
#27 Helge Zieler Chromation 2
#27 William Taylor Applied Materials 2
#27 Scott Hecker Rempex Pharmaceuticals 2
#27 Homayoun Karimabadi 2
#27 Heinz R. Hoenecke, Jr. 2
#27 Scott Hoover Qualcomm 2
#44 Paul DARUWALA Cidara Therapeutics 1
#44 James Mork Oracle 1
#44 Glen Otero Wellstat Vaccines 1
#44 Son Phi Hoang Tealium 1
#44 Annie Chen General Instrument 1
#44 Andrew M. Blumenfeld AbbVie 1
#44 James H. Flatt Martek Biosciences 1

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