Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Pacifica, CA ranks #703 worldwide for total patents filed in 2022, with 196 patents from 109 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Pacifica, CA include Sony, Micron, Chemocentryx. That works out to 5.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 109 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Javier Fernandez Rico Sony 7
1 Olivier Duval Micron 7
1 Jay P. Powers Chemocentryx 7
#4 Scott A. Mercer Volta Charging 6
#4 Gregory Alan Lazar Xencor 6
#6 Christian Gutierrez Verily Life Sciences 5
#6 Igor Vasiljevic Toyota 5
#6 David Chamberlin Rovi Guides 5
#6 Alex Prodaniuk Volta Charging 5
#10 Mark F. Davis Dolby Laboratories Licensing 4
#10 Christine B. McGavran Apple 4
#10 David Hatch Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 4
#10 Bilgehan Avser Apple 4
#14 Mike Lizarzaburu Amgen 3
#14 David T. Sulcer Workspot 3
#14 Peter E. Haroldsen Serb Sa 3
#14 Daniel J. Bechstein Apple 3
#14 Martin Yue Choy Applied Materials 3
#14 Panu James Turcot Affectiva 3
#14 Clara E. Lee Cisco 3
#14 Victor Lim Agilent Technologies 3
#14 Jesse F. Patterson Rovi Guides 3
#23 Dustin Michael Byford Broadcom 2
#23 Kevin Zhao Harmonie 2
#23 Rena Aviva Mizrahi Gigagen 2
#23 Doug Sutton The Foundry 2
#23 Michael Graupe Gilead Sciences 2
#23 Hiroyuki Kawai Oric Pharmaceuticals 2
#23 Brendan Berman Brainsoft 2
#23 Charles C. Hoyt Apple 2
#23 Douglas J. Gorny Dolby Laboratories Licensing 2
#23 Azhar Kamal Meyer Microsoft 2
#23 Artem Mishin Soraa 2
#23 Ryan Kelley Rigel Pharmaceuticals 2
#23 Thomas William Moulia 2
#36 Daniel T. Lagoe Angiodynamics 1
#36 Stephen Yui Gopro 1
#36 Ankit Rohatgi General Motors 1
#36 Thomas Edgar Hawkes 1
#36 Andrew Albert Nat, III Accenture Global Solutions Limited 1
#36 James Alan MISENER Qualcomm 1
#36 Nathan L. Reuss Meta 1
#36 Ryan Jeffrey Southwick Johnson & Johnson 1
#36 Travis Maures Synthego 1
#36 Linda Thuy VO Children'S Medical Center 1
#36 Bryan D. Haynes Add-Vision 1
#36 Richard L. Beardsley Genentech 1
#36 Joel McIntosh Roche Palo Alto 1
#36 Akanksha Grover Salesforce 1
#36 Spyros Maniatopoulos General Motors 1

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