Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Pacifica, CA ranks #614 worldwide for total patents filed in 2023, with 227 patents from 112 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Pacifica, CA include Micron, Apple, Rovi Guides. That works out to 5.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 112 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Olivier Duval Micron 13
2 Bilgehan Avser Apple 8
3 Jesse F. Patterson Rovi Guides 7
#4 Douglas Sutton Medtronic 6
#4 Jerome Deval Alios Biopharma 6
#4 Igor Vasiljevic Toyota 6
#4 Jay P. Powers Chemocentryx 6
#8 Panu James Turcot Affectiva 5
#8 Jennifer Kozak Theravance Biopharma R&D Ip 5
#8 Javier Fernandez Rico Sony 5
#8 David Hatch Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 5
#12 Leon Volfovski Applied Materials 4
#12 Clara E. Lee Cisco 4
#12 Michael Graupe Gilead Sciences 4
#12 Peter Chi Hao Huang Google 4
#12 Scott A. Mercer Volta Charging 4
#17 Josh Richman Samsung 3
#17 Alex Prodaniuk Volta Charging 3
#17 David Chamberlin Rovi Guides 3
#17 Douglas J. Gorny Dolby Laboratories Licensing 3
#17 David T. Sulcer Workspot 3
#17 Gregory Alan Lazar Xencor 3
#17 Christine B. McGavran Apple 3
#17 Rena Aviva Mizrahi Gigagen 3
#25 Adam Drake Freenome Holdings 2
#25 Miroslav Tchavdarov Kotzev 2
#25 Donald James Reynolds Starkey Laboratories 2
#25 Derek Gladding Microsoft 2
#25 Nathaniel G. Butlin Lumiphore 2
#25 Yoong Wearn Lim Gigagen 2
#25 Stephen Yui Gopro 2
#25 Ankit Rohatgi General Motors 2
#25 Christopher Rudnick Maplebear 2
#25 Farzad Forouzandeh University Of South Florida 2
#25 Mark F. Davis Dolby Laboratories Licensing 2
#25 Travis Maures Synthego 2
#25 Patrick Stan Visa 2
#25 Germaine Fuh-Kelly 23Andme 2
#25 Lorilyn McCue Salesforce 2
#25 Earl Hathaway 2
#25 Vineet KHOSLA Apple 2
#25 Craig S. Pace Gilead Sciences 2
#25 Gustave Bergnes Cytokinetics 2
#25 William D. Carpenter Transitions Optical 2
#25 Yichuan Gui Climate 2
#25 Christian Gutierrez Verily Life Sciences 2
#25 Eric L. Stangeland Theravance 2
#48 Abhinav Acharya Samsara 1
#48 Andrew Dubel Mjnn 1
#48 Mike Lizarzaburu Amgen 1

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