Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Chula Vista, CA ranks #1,211 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 2,770 patents from 742 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Chula Vista, CA include Unknown, Dexcom, Jentek Sensors. That works out to 10.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 742 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Cecilia L. D. Bennett Unknown 58
2 Arturo Garcia Dexcom 55
3 Andrew P. Washabaugh Jentek Sensors 50
#4 Fernando Echeverri Senomyx 40
#5 Michael H. Wahl Achates Power 39
#5 Ruben M. Velarde Qualcomm 39
#5 Antonio C. Llevares Obalon Therapeutics 39
#8 Ayax D. Ramirez US Air Force 37
#8 James J. Feuling Feuling Engineering 37
#10 Ricardo David Roman Medtronic 36
#11 Aurelio J. Gutierrez Pulse Engineering 35
#12 Philip Paik Advanced Liquid Logic 34
#13 Beejan Soheili Catalyst Medium Four 33
#13 Stephen R. Cole Lincoln Global 33
#15 Jose S. Alonso-Miralles Rohr 31
#16 Doug Dunn Kyocera 26
#17 Jihad Ramlaoui Rohr 25
#17 Ronald E. Laird Guardian Industries 25
#19 Michael John Layland Rohr 24
#20 Marlon Carlos Arena Pharmaceuticals 23
#21 Raymond E. Wiech, Jr. Fine Particle Technology 22
#22 Dean R. E. Long 20
#22 Jay M. Francisco Hamilton Sundstrand 20
#22 Donald O. Olson Olson Irrigation Systems 20
#25 Keith T. Brown Rohr 19
#25 Israel Means AT&T 19
#25 Ivan Dejesus Chousal Intrepid Automation 19
#25 Melinda M. Valencia HP 19
#29 Oswald C. Svehaug 17
#29 Teresa R. Hickok San Diego Swiss Maching 17
#29 Devin Ridgeway Sealed Air Corporation (Us) 17
#32 Per O. Nielsen Qualcomm 16
#32 Daniel Toro Carefusion 2200 16
#32 Charles D. Gavrilovich Carucel Investments 16
#32 James Scott Piper Solar Turbines Incorporated 16
#32 Nathaniel D. Stevens 16
#37 Emerico Alberto Brewer Illumina 15
#37 Eliezer Masliah University of California 15
#37 Edward Rockenstein University of California 15
#40 Javier Godinez Intuit 14
#40 James John Henschel Clearfield 14
#40 Philip M. Rose 14
#40 Alan Richard Douglas Rohr 14
#44 Susan M. O'Brien Nor'East Miniature Roses 12
#44 Paul Binun Kiribati Wireless Ventures 12
#46 Amha Hewet Ambrx 11
#46 Joseph A. Carroll Aerojet Rocketdyne 11
#48 Chuck Block 10
#48 Jeffrey W. Moe Rohr 10
#48 Peter K. Shogren Aeronex 10

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