Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Pacific Grove, CA ranks #3,916 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 29 patents from 16 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Pacific Grove, CA include Ooma, Weatherford/Lamb, Voith Patent Gmbh. That works out to 1.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–16 of 16 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Tobin E. Farrand Ooma 6
2 David M. Haugen Weatherford/Lamb 5
3 Michael Straub Voith Patent Gmbh 3
#4 Emil P. Kartalov Caltech 2
#4 Masaki Nagashima Tula Etechnology 2
#6 David R. Rank Pacific Biosciences Of California 1
#6 Jason Krone Amazon 1
#6 Daniel M. Kohn Blackberry Limited 1
#6 Gyuwon Song 1
#6 Garrett RODEWALD 1
#6 Damon Covell Campbell Medeon Biodesign 1
#6 Brendan Doyle Unknown 1
#6 Owen Hildreth Arizona Board Of Regents For And On Behalf Of Arizona State University 1
#6 Luke Brewer GE 1
#6 Damon Campbell Coefficient Cycling 1
#6 Jason Sutor Pacesetter 1

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