Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Carlsbad, CA ranks #103 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 25,181 patents from 2,500 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Carlsbad, CA include Taylor Made Golf Company, Maxlinear, Apple. That works out to 219.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 2,500 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Todd P. Beach Taylor Made Golf Company 381
2 Curtis Ling Maxlinear 334
3 Tarik Tabet Apple 260
#4 Sivagnanam Parthasarathy Micron 230
#5 Larry G. Tang Callaway Golf 223
#6 Don T. Cameron Hasbro 202
#6 C. Frank Bennett Isis Pharmaceuticals 202
#8 Joseph Henry Hoffman Taylor Made Golf Company 197
#9 Peter G. Schultz Scripps Research 193
#10 Richard C. Helmstetter Callaway Golf 186
#11 Michael A. Smith The Invention Science Fund I 182
#12 Muhammed Zeyd Coban Qualcomm 162
#13 Peter L. Soracco Acushnet 156
#14 Douglas E. Roberts Cobra Golf Incorporated 155
#14 Ruth Kobayashi Dümmen Group B.V. 155
#16 Ian D. Kovacevich Edison Nation 143
#17 Matthew Myers Callaway Golf 134
#18 Wolfgang Hinz Thermo Fisher 125
#19 James A. Seluga Callaway Golf 123
#20 Christopher John Harbert Taylor Made Golf Company 116
#20 Thomas Orrin Bennett Acushnet 116
#22 Scott Powell Broadcom 114
#23 Punit P. Seth Ionis Pharmaceuticals 112
#24 Robert J. Boock Dexcom 109
#25 Uday V. Deshmukh Acushnet 108
#26 Stephen S. Murphy Acushnet 107
#27 Wee Joung Kim Callaway Golf 106
#28 David Bartels Callaway Golf 102
#28 Brandon D. DeMille Callaway Golf 102
#30 Andrew Geall Glaxosmithkline Biologicals Sa 101
#31 Ahmad Reza Hedayat Newracom 99
#32 Francesco Carobolante 97
#33 Denver Holt Callaway Golf 96
#34 Jason Palmer Smartdrive Systems 94
#34 Ismail Lakkis Qualcomm 94
#36 Attila Mekis Luxtera 89
#36 Chong U. Lee Qualcomm 89
#38 Thazha P. Prakash Isis Pharmaceuticals 88
#38 Hussein S. El-Ghoroury Ostendo Technologies 88
#40 Sridhar Ramesh Maxlinear 87
#40 Bradley C. Rice Callaway Golf 87
#40 Michael A. Stuber Qualcomm 87
#40 Jeremy Stigall Philips Image Guided Therapy 87
#44 Stuart B. Molin Silanna Asia Pte 86
#45 John C. Reed The Burnham Institute 85
#45 Hong G. Jeon Taylor Made Golf Company 85
#47 Victor Manuel Moreno Cisco 84
#48 Michael Bentley Blast Motion 81
#49 Norbert D. Hagen Gen-Probe Incorporated 80
#50 James T. Doyle National Semiconductor 79

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