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Goleta, CA 2025

289 patents  ·  162 inventors  ·  8.8/1k pop.

Ranked #441 of 40,566 cities Top 2%

Goleta, CA ranks #441 worldwide for total patents filed in 2025, with 289 patents from 162 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Goleta, CA include Google, Destination 2D, Alcon. That works out to 8.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 162 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Craig Gidney Google 9
2 Kaustav Banerjee Destination 2D 8
2 Patrick Terry Alcon 8
#4 Minh Tran Nexus Photonics 6
#4 Anthony Edward Megrant Google 6
#4 Tin Komljenovic Nexus Photonics 6
#7 Christina Paulsen KNAPP Microsoft 5
#7 Shuji Nakamura University of California 5
#7 Charles Neill Google 5
#7 George Charles Polchin Alcon 5
#11 Sten Heikman Cree 4
#11 Marco Pinter Intouch Technologies 4
#11 Daniel Wayne Chin Inogen 4
#11 Daniel Thomas Sank Google 4
#11 Justin Gordon Adams Wehner RTX (Raytheon) 4
#16 Wei Yang Murata Manufacturing Co. 3
#16 Patrick Sean Daugherty University of California 3
#16 Anina Cooter Karl Storz Se & Co. Kg 3
#16 Austin A. Richards Flir Systems 3
#16 Dylan M. Rodriguez Teledyne Flir Commercial Systems 3
#16 Michael I. Larkin Wyatt Technology 3
#16 Charles Frazier Apeel Technology 3
#16 Jamal I. Mustafa RTX (Raytheon) 3
#16 Louis Tremblay Teledyne Flir Commercial Systems 3
#16 Mohammad Reza Mahmoodi Sandisk Technologies 3
#26 Eric J. Beuville RTX (Raytheon) 2
#26 Xinjie Guo Silicon Storage Technology 2
#26 Nile E. Fairfield Teledyne Flir Commercial Systems 2
#26 Fuji Lai Intouch Technologies 2
#26 Russell J. Redmond Neotract 2
#26 Justin Norman University of California 2
#26 Samuel Boutin Renault S.A.S. 2
#26 Jonathan Bormet Karl Storz Imaging 2
#26 Carl Joseph Neufeld Transphorm 2
#26 Naseem Y. Aziz Flir Systems 2
#26 Zeyu Zhang Nexus Photonics 2
#26 Mulin Yang Nomad Goods 2
#26 Marco Vanella Wyatt Technology 2
#26 Farnood Merrikh Bayat Silicon Storage Technology 2
#26 Michael Augarten Teradyne 2
#26 Pierre Boulanger Flir Systems 2
#26 Tajuddin Manhar Mohammed Mayachitra 2
#26 Chao-Hui Yeh National Tsing Hua University 2
#26 Alan Fridman Alcon 2
#26 Chong Huang Amazon 2
#26 Devendra Kumar Jangid Samsung 2
#26 Marko Radosevic Karl Storz Endovision 2
#26 Kevin Joseph Satzinger Google 2
#26 David S. Immel Digital Surgery Systems 2
#26 Marin Sigurdson Teledyne Flir Commercial Systems 2

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