Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Pacifica, CA ranks #657 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 215 patents from 104 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Pacifica, CA include Visa, Apple, Chemocentryx. That works out to 5.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 104 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Patrick Stan Visa 8
1 Bilgehan Avser Apple 8
1 Jay P. Powers Chemocentryx 8
#4 Panu James Turcot Affectiva 7
#4 Douglas J. Gorny Dolby Laboratories Licensing 7
#6 Mark F. Davis Dolby Laboratories Licensing 6
#6 Javier Fernandez Rico Sony 6
#6 Olivier Duval Micron 6
#6 Christian Gutierrez Verily Life Sciences 6
#6 Douglas Sutton Medtronic 6
#11 David Hatch Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 5
#12 Jennifer Kozak Theravance Biopharma R&D Ip 4
#12 Jerome Deval Alios Biopharma 4
#12 Scott A. Mercer Volta Charging 4
#15 Erica J. Tong Apple 3
#15 STEVEN D GRUVER Pioneer (Corteva) 3
#15 David Chamberlin Rovi Guides 3
#15 Zev Jordan Gartner Harvard University 3
#15 Gregory Alan Lazar Xencor 3
#15 William D. Carpenter Transitions Optical 3
#15 Jerry Chiu Google 3
#15 Lawrence R. McGee Amgen 3
#15 Karl Newland Visa 3
#15 Donald James Reynolds Starkey Laboratories 3
#25 Ashley Gibson Stubhub 2
#25 Jesse F. Patterson Rovi Guides 2
#25 Etan Lightstone New Relic 2
#25 Victor Lim Agilent Technologies 2
#25 John Burnier Genentech 2
#25 Andrey Yruski Sony 2
#25 Leon Volfovski Applied Materials 2
#25 Ankit Rohatgi General Motors 2
#25 James Alan MISENER Qualcomm 2
#25 Eric Larsen Sony 2
#25 Michael Graupe Gilead Sciences 2
#25 Ivana Djuretic Celularity 2
#25 Vineet KHOSLA Apple 2
#25 Ryan Oksenhorn Zipline International 2
#25 Joseph W. Boudeman 2
#25 Jason M. Ortega Lawrence Livermore National Security 2
#25 Richard Earle Seeger, III Verizon 2
#25 Jin Hong Johnson & Johnson 2
#25 Craig S. Pace Gilead Sciences 2
#25 Hiroyuki Kawai Oric Pharmaceuticals 2
#45 Jonathan Patrick Summers Unknown 1
#45 Angelo B. Macugay Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 1
#45 Bernard Halloran University of California 1
#45 Megan Mok Peoplechart 1
#45 Jay Webster Quova 1
#45 Christine B. McGavran Apple 1

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