Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

El Cajon, CA ranks #1,804 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 74 patents from 49 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in El Cajon, CA include Rain Bird, Cnh Industrial America, Seescan. That works out to 0.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–49 of 49 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Harvey J. Nickerson Rain Bird 6
2 Nathan Taylor Cnh Industrial America 4
3 Jesse O. Casares Seescan 3
3 John Marking Fox Factory 3
#5 Darryl C. Galvan Acushnet 2
#5 John Francis Lorentzen Taylor Made Golf Company 2
#5 Troy Unger Polaris Industries 2
#5 Stuart Robertson Phyre Technologies 2
#5 Ken Wilson Wilson Tool International 2
#5 Santosh Y. Limaye Phyre Technologies 2
#5 Ilya Kaminsky Maxwell Technologies 2
#5 David A. Hazlebeck General Atomics 2
#5 Donald Felt Kimball Psemi 2
#5 Alexander Dorosenco Qualcomm 2
#5 Daniel H. Muhleman US Air Force 2
#5 Robert Irving Pratt, Jr. Unknown 2
#5 David Bruce Tivo 2
#18 Mark Timothy Ott Subseasail 1
#18 Kevin Brian Heath Necksgen 1
#18 Terry Welzant Unknown 1
#18 Patrick M. Wasson RTX (Raytheon) 1
#18 Timothy M. Turner Seescan 1
#18 Matthew Jones Arvinmeritor Technology 1
#18 Don Godfrey Rosecroft Components 1
#18 Fadi Iskander Rohr 1
#18 Jimmie Don Taylor Unknown 1
#18 Steve Sacks 1
#18 Dave Arney US Air Force 1
#18 Daniel O. Ursenbach Rohr 1
#18 Adam L Einsel 1
#18 Ronald Kevin Johnston Solar Turbines Incorporated 1
#18 Donald Eugene Sturek Itron 1
#18 Mark Knuth Mycogen 1
#18 Matthew Steiger Decision Sciences International 1
#18 Dan Wahlgren Eddy Pump 1
#18 Robert Allan Unger Sony 1
#18 Aaron Romero Boardriders Ip Holdings 1
#18 Anthony Christopher Simmons 1
#18 David Nelson Echonous 1
#18 Mark Aoraha Cacause General Atomics 1
#18 Keith Levon Harrell Solar Turbines Incorporated 1
#18 Theodore Garry Stern 1
#18 Daivon Deans Osteal Therapeutics 1
#18 Eric Eugene Berry Arris Enterprises 1
#18 Michael Sean Pretty Rohr 1
#18 David Krawzsenek Boston Scientific Scimed 1
#18 Maxwell Robertson Texas Instruments 1
#18 David V. Arney US Air Force 1
#18 John Francis Lorentzen Solar Turbines Incorporated 1

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