Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Pacifica, CA ranks #586 worldwide for total patents filed in 2025, with 219 patents from 101 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Pacifica, CA include Micron, Rovi Guides, Volta Charging. That works out to 5.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 101 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Olivier Duval Micron 8
2 Jesse F. Patterson Rovi Guides 7
2 Scott A. Mercer Volta Charging 7
2 Jay P. Powers Chemocentryx 7
#5 Alex Prodaniuk Volta Charging 6
#5 Douglas Sutton Medtronic 6
#7 Igor Vasiljevic Toyota 5
#7 Gregory Alan Lazar Xencor 5
#7 William D. Carpenter Transitions Optical 5
#7 Charles C. Hoyt Apple 5
#11 David T. Sulcer Workspot 4
#11 Michael Graupe Gilead Sciences 4
#11 Rena Aviva Mizrahi Gigagen 4
#11 Edward Lim Xoma 4
#11 Yoong Wearn Lim Gigagen 4
#11 Ankit Rohatgi General Motors 4
#11 Douglas J. Gorny Dolby Laboratories Licensing 4
#11 Christopher Rudnick Maplebear 4
#19 Daniel J. Bechstein Apple 3
#19 Stephen Yui Gopro 3
#19 Daniel T. Lagoe Angiodynamics 3
#19 Mark F. Davis Dolby Laboratories Licensing 3
#19 Germaine Fuh-Kelly 23Andme 3
#19 Tamay AYKUT 3
#19 Zoltan Laszlo Zipline International 3
#19 Spyros Maniatopoulos General Motors 3
#19 Linus Park Roam Robotics 3
#19 Adam Drake Freenome Holdings 3
#29 Victor Lim Agilent Technologies 2
#29 Karl Newland Visa 2
#29 Clara E. Lee Cisco 2
#29 Kerryn McCluskie Codexis 2
#29 Emily Mirro Neuropace 2
#29 Nicholas Hayden Herron General Motors 2
#29 Vineet KHOSLA Apple 2
#29 Peter Chi Hao Huang Google 2
#29 Jason M. Ortega Lawrence Livermore National Security 2
#29 Poyuan Yang Bold Limited 2
#29 Azhar Kamal Meyer Microsoft 2
#29 Laurie Sellick Affirm 2
#29 David Chamberlin Rovi Guides 2
#29 Mason Myles Markee Auris Health 2
#29 Bilgehan Avser Apple 2
#29 Craig S. Pace Gilead Sciences 2
#29 My Dinh Truong Equinix 2
#29 Christian Gutierrez Verily Life Sciences 2
#29 Jennifer Kozak Theravance Biopharma R&D Ip 2
#29 Hiroyuki Kawai Oric Pharmaceuticals 2
#29 Paul Anthony Rose Worldpay 2
#29 David Hatch Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 2

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