Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Daly City, CA ranks #1,312 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 2,565 patents from 482 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Daly City, CA include Igt, Analytics For Life, Western Digital (Fremont). That works out to 24.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 482 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Mark C. Nicely Igt 213
2 Sunny Gupta Analytics For Life 62
3 Shing Lee Western Digital (Fremont) 50
3 Adam R. Abate Harvard University 50
#5 David E. Yao Kenu 49
#6 Adrian C. Apodaca Hct Group Holdings Limited 40
#6 Gunasekaran Kannan Amgen 40
#8 Anan Chuntharapai Genentech 38
#9 Gregg S. Suzuki Apple 35
#10 David K. Lam Multibeam 34
#10 Samuel Tam Amazon 34
#12 Raul Escutia Intuity Medical 31
#13 Jannes G. Dolfing Apple 29
#14 Gabriel A. Hare Ultrahaptics Ip Two Limited 28
#14 Danny Chan Amazon 28
#16 Lawrence Fang Elan Pharmaceuticals 26
#16 Piu Bill Wong Kathrein-Werke Kg 26
#18 Jaroslaw W. Winniczek Lam Research 24
#19 Minki Bang Monster 23
#20 Chris A. Buhr Gilead Sciences 22
#21 Carmen Tan Igt 21
#21 Jenifer Smith Elan Pharmaceuticals 21
#21 Milton C. Lee Oracle 21
#24 Rohan Dayal Apple 20
#25 Hingkwan Huen Samsung 19
#25 Juan J. Ruiz IBM 19
#25 Adheip Varadarajan Salesforce 19
#28 Andrew Ling Sonatus 18
#28 James G. McGuire Avaya 18
#30 Joel Kreps Clara Foods 17
#30 Khin Oo Fornia Biosolutions 17
#30 Daniel McCaffrey Zynga 17
#33 Winson Lin AMD 16
#33 Calvin W. Yee Global Blood Therapeutics 16
#33 Katie K. Chow The Clorox 16
#33 Jing Wang Fluidigm 16
#37 Zhe Yang Cytokinetics 15
#37 Stuart Lin Advanced Stent Technologies 15
#37 Mohammad Mirabedini 15
#40 Michael R. Hill United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority 14
#41 Don Ahn Smart Patents 13
#41 Jorge Pernillo Inphi 13
#41 Jakub Mazur Apple 13
#41 Kok Gi Wu Ricoh Company 13
#45 Xiaoran Wang Salesforce 12
#45 Jean-Claire Limun Manalo Exelixis 12
#45 Khin Yu Naing Htwe Codexis 12
#45 Ian Lam AMD 12
#45 Ahmad Sadeddin Coupa Software Incorporated 12
#45 David J. Seymour Texas Instruments 12

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