Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Encinitas, CA ranks #288 worldwide for total patents filed in 2022, with 470 patents from 222 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Encinitas, CA include Cisco, Metawave, Prognosys Biosciences. That works out to 7.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 222 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Daniel Trenkner Cisco 21
2 Maha Achour Metawave 18
2 Mark S. Chee Prognosys Biosciences 18
#4 Daryl Stimm Gopro 9
#4 Jason Blain Spinal Elements 9
#4 Paul McPherson Astute Medical 9
#7 Eric E. Swayze Isis Pharmaceuticals 8
#7 Rob Burke Avidity Biosciences 8
#9 Kevin L. Gunderson Illumina 6
#10 Zachary A. Bornholdt Adimab 5
#10 Kevin Nakamura Astute Medical 5
#10 Shendong Yuan Schering 5
#10 David R. Handy Topgolf Callaway Brands 5
#10 Sean Zimmerman Thermo Fisher 5
#10 Jason HARRIS Global Blood Therapeutics 5
#10 Nicholas Shayne Brookins Smartdrive Systems 5
#10 Joseph Anderberg Astute Medical 5
#10 Eldad M. Zeira Interdigital Technology 5
#10 Eric Stubben Topgolf Callaway Brands 5
#20 John R. Stuelpnagel Illumina 4
#20 Devin H. Redmond Theta Lake 4
#20 Charles E. Golden Acushnet 4
#20 Marco Zanuso Qualcomm 4
#20 Susan Meeks Pede Tosense 4
#20 Travis Gregory Newhouse Juniper Networks 4
#20 Jonathan Kies Qualcomm 4
#20 Michael Rahilly 4
#20 Mark C. Brister Dexcom 4
#20 Alok Gupta Qualcomm 4
#20 Ryan L. Roach Cobra Golf Incorporated 4
#20 Stephen J. Van Dien Genomatica 4
#32 Mark D. Dankberg Viasat 3
#32 Peter Clarke Newman Cymer 3
#32 Charles B. Kuznia Ultra Communications 3
#32 Joseph Anthony Mariglio, III Boomcloud 360 3
#32 Richard Scott Weston Bluesky Medical Group Incorporated 3
#32 Walter John Bochenko Crisi Medical Systems 3
#32 Raju Mohan Berlex Laboratories 3
#32 Oliver Schroeder Eli Lilly 3
#32 Emily M. Stocking Johnson & Johnson 3
#32 Tyler Reid Kyocera International 3
#32 Kameron Gad Apple 3
#32 John M. Nuss Exelixis 3
#32 Jacob A. Moebius Ts Medical 3
#32 Martin Maria Fabani Singular Genomics Systems 3
#32 David J. King Anaptysbio 3
#32 Benjamin Batterson Djo 3
#32 Peter Hergesheimer Calamp 3
#49 Jeremy Goldblatt Qualcomm 2
#49 Emmanuel E. Baetge Viacyte 2

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