Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Auburn, CA ranks #3,431 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 867 patents from 253 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Auburn, CA include HP, Celtrix Pharmaceuticals, Moment. That works out to 62.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 253 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Glenn C. Simon HP 44
2 Ballard C. Bare HP 34
3 Desmond Mascarenhas Celtrix Pharmaceuticals 33
#4 Arash Ghorbani Moment 32
#5 Rudy Pretti Coalign Innovations 25
#6 Philip Grosso Grt 22
#7 Claude Geoffrey Davis Abgenix 16
#8 Mick R. Jacobs Cisco 15
#8 C. Geoffrey Davis Amgen 15
#8 Robert Wayne Moore Archer Aviation 15
#8 David Dickey 15
#12 Dennis Keller Micron 13
#13 Gary Smith Sumitomo Electric Industries 12
#14 Patrick Allen Bodwell Asc Profiles 11
#15 Darrell Livezey 10
#15 Donald James Jones Verifone 10
#15 Mark Kaufman X-Bow Launch Systems 10
#15 David B. Duncan US Dept of Energy 10
#15 Micah Brown Annihilator Broadheads 10
#15 Rok Sribar GE 10
#21 Thomas Hansmann Paul Wurth S.A. 9
#21 Thomas A. Keaveny 9
#21 Timothy A. Brisson Constant Velocity Transmission Lines 9
#24 Earl Stuart Douglass 8
#25 Sean Cerniglia HP 7
#25 Garth W. Billings 7
#25 Stanley J. Hludzinski Verifone 7
#25 Kyle Breuning Evans Lunar Energy 7
#29 Marv Dargatz Enphase Energy 6
#29 Douglas E. Wilkinson Energy Absorption Systems 6
#29 Donald Jay Gustason 6
#29 Cecil C. Hassard Coil Solutions 6
#29 Joshua Wiley Purdue Research Foundation 6
#29 Badir M. Mousa 6
#29 Lawrence S. Uzelac Intel 6
#29 Andrew Carl Brost Arris Enterprises 6
#29 David Tostenson Amber Solutions 6
#29 Jonathan M. Baumgardner Cool Touch Incorporated 6
#29 Virginia Smith Hewlett Packard Enterprise 6
#29 Kenneth J. Geer HP 6
#29 James G. Wendt 6
#42 Douglas E. O'Neil 5
#42 Donald Lee Darnell Edison Nation 5
#42 James Michael Felt Felt Racing 5
#42 Nelson S. Pass 5
#42 Erin M. West Intermotive 5
#42 David G. Rohrer HP 5
#42 Evan Mackenzie Lecavalier Cellars 5
#49 Lawrence R. Tracy C & K Systems 4
#49 Kim Stevens Telairity Semiconductor 4

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