Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Rancho Santa Fe, CA ranks #958 worldwide for total patents filed in 2022, with 144 patents from 65 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Rancho Santa Fe, CA include Ips Group, Academia Sinica, Biotheryx. That works out to 45.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 65 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 David William King Ips Group 12
2 Chi-Huey Wong Academia Sinica 7
3 Frank Mercurio Biotheryx 6
3 Murray A. Reicher D.R. Systems 6
3 Shivakumar Balasubramanyam Qualcomm 6
3 Lee D. Arnold Abbott 6
#7 Scott C. Harris 5
#8 Anthony B. Pinkerton Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute 4
#8 Erkki Ruoslahti La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation 4
#8 Clint L. Kemerling Psemi 4
#8 Jason M. Cox Merck 4
#12 Anthony G. Macaluso Sito Mobile R&D Ip 3
#12 Ahmad Jalali Qualcomm 3
#12 Douglas P. Brown Teradata Us 3
#12 Mark Miller Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated 3
#12 Allen Minh-Triet Tran Qualcomm 3
#12 George W. Muller Bristol-Myers Squibb 3
#12 Wayne C. Drevets Johnson & Johnson 3
#19 Paul Richard Gauvreau, JR. Johnson Matthey Public Limited 2
#19 Greg Crandall Danaher 2
#19 Rakesh Sanam Qualcomm 2
#19 Bradford James DUFT Coda Therapeutics 2
#19 Mark Marinovich Pacific Handy Cutter 2
#19 Michael Lamb Ecolink Intelligent Technology 2
#19 David Schub 2
#19 Aly Ismail Apple 2
#19 Xuemin Chen 2
#19 Donald W. Becker Viasat 2
#19 Gurkanwal Singh Sahota Qualcomm 2
#19 Kyle Bulloch Thermo Fisher 2
#31 Christopher Michael Gervais Zest Ip Holdings 1
#31 Luciana E. Hanley 1
#31 Mark Nelson The Nielsen Company (Us) 1
#31 Anthony M. Sorge, SR. Gene Therapy Systems 1
#31 Satoru Yukie Sony 1
#31 Andrew Benedek Anaergia 1
#31 Ernesto J. Munoz-Elias Johnson & Johnson 1
#31 Neil K. Nydegger 1
#31 Edward E. Hanley 1
#31 Tara VandenBerg Djo 1
#31 Steven Christopher Kelley 1
#31 Harry E. Gruber Tocagen 1
#31 Frederic B. Luddy Servicenow 1
#31 Thomas L. Tullie Ecoatm 1
#31 Sogole Bahmanyar Signal Pharmaceuticals 1
#31 John A. Moon Illumina 1
#31 Anthony Wiley Open Text 1
#31 Brian Lian Viking Therapeutics 1
#31 Sheila Gujrathi Abb Vie 1
#31 Sean P. McGeehan Atacor Medical 1

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