Top Inventors in Goleta, CA | Patent Leaderboard

Goleta, CA ranks #385 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 8,127 patents from 1,303 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Goleta, CA include University of California, Intouch Technologies, Cree. That works out to 248.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,303 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Shuji Nakamura	University of California	354
2	Steven P. DenBaars	University of California	206
3	Yulun Wang	Intouch Technologies	180
#4	Yifeng Wu	Cree	146
#5	Jacob Y. Wong	Airware	127
#6	Chengjun Sun	Samsung	124
#7	Eric Tarsa	Cree	123
#8	James Ibbetson	Cree	117
#9	Marco Pinter	Intouch Technologies	111
#10	Russell J. Redmond	Neotract	96
#11	Primit Parikh	Cree	72
#12	Rajat Sharma	Soraa	65
#13	Craig A. Andreiko	Ormco	62
#13	Michael Collinson	Neotract	62
#13	Pierre Boulanger	Flir Systems	62
#16	Rongming Chu	Hrl Laboratories	52
#17	Mathew C. Schmidt	Soraa Laser Diode	51
#18	Dennis E. Van Epps	AbbVie	47
#19	Fuji Lai	Intouch Technologies	44
#19	Alan K. Plyley	United States Surgical	44
#21	Jeffrey D. Frank	Flir Systems	43
#22	Richard A. Proulx	Proulx Manufacturing	41
#23	Michael Johnson	NVIDIA	40
#23	Sten Heikman	Cree	40
#25	Stephen C. Minne	Veeco Instruments	39
#25	Roger Helkey	Calient Networks	39
#25	Patrick Sean Daugherty	University of California	39
#28	Adam M. Kennedy	RTX (Raytheon)	37
#29	Mark T. Kern	Santa Barbara Research Center	35
#30	John Parker	Juniper Networks	33
#30	Borge Hestehave	Bomatic	33
#32	Kelton Temby	Intouch Technologies	32
#32	Dmitri Strukov	HP	32
#32	Matthew Stainer	E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And	32
#35	Austin A. Richards	Flir Systems	31
#35	Marcel Tremblay	Flir Systems	31
#35	Amante Mangaser	Intouch Technologies	31
#35	Paul K. Hansma	University of California	31
#39	Vijaysekhar Jayaraman	Praevium Research	30
#39	Mark Nussmeier	Flir Systems	30
#41	Jim Deacon	Abbott	29
#41	Matthew G. Neeley	Google	29
#43	Albert Alexandrov	Citrix Systems	27
#44	Christiane Elsass	Soraa Laser Diode	26
#44	Craig Gidney	Google	26
#44	David Seidel	Oewaves	26
#47	Timothy King	Karl Storz Imaging	25
#47	Leif Johansson	Freedom Photonics	25
#47	Justin Gordon Adams Wehner	RTX (Raytheon)	25
#50	George Charles Polchin	Alcon	24

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