Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Merced, CA ranks #2,793 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,101 patents from 257 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Merced, CA include Seiko Epson, The Boc Group Limited, 3M. That works out to 12.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 257 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Sanjiv Garg Seiko Epson 72
2 Ravi Jain The Boc Group Limited 67
3 Roland Winston 3M 58
#4 Michael A. Robinson Avago Technologies General Ip (Singapore) Pte. 47
#5 Yue Chen Broadcom 34
#6 Daniel Lee Gasper Malibu Boats 29
#7 Alan Waterman Rovi Guides 28
#8 Jeffrey Craig 24
#9 Yu Hui Northwestern University 21
#10 Peter Hsu Mips Technologies 20
#11 William Bright Texas Instruments 18
#12 Herbert A. Waterman Rovi Guides 17
#13 Tolga Kurtoglu Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated 16
#13 Gaylen R. Hinton Cms Gilbreth Packaging Systems 16
#15 Crist Y. Lu Sitime 14
#15 Juan Cai Nanostellar 14
#15 Patricia Ching Lu IBM 14
#15 Michael J. Koster Oracle 14
#19 Preet Paul Singh Advantest 13
#20 Sihai Xiao Tvworks 12
#20 Srinivas Yelisetty Accenture Global Solutions Limited 12
#20 Timothy Michael Lopes Malibu Boats 12
#23 Raja Swaidan L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme Pour L'Etude Et L'Exploitation Des Procedes Georges Claude 10
#24 Yun-Chian Cheng Trend Micro Incorporated 9
#24 Jeen-Yuan Miin Intel 9
#26 Dimitar Gargov Optimal Ranging 8
#26 Daniel A. Tichenor Euv Llc. 8
#28 Donald J. Stewart Chrysler Group 7
#28 Sumit Saraogi Enphase Energy 7
#28 Bryan Walter Munday Malibu Boats 7
#28 Anthony Jorgenson Infinera 7
#28 Sonja Hoffman Hemelrijk Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories 7
#28 Jeff Ramer Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 7
#34 Ryan Baxter University of California 6
#34 Liang Bao Genentech 6
#34 Frederic W. Anderson 6
#34 Guy Newhouse Finisar 6
#34 Yong Xie University Of Southern California 6
#34 Vijay K. Mehra Philips Electronics North America 6
#34 Meng-Lin Tsao Scripps Research 6
#34 Malay Desai Broadcom 6
#34 Soma Sundaram Santhiveeran HP 6
#43 Sanford Lane Cooper Lasersonics 5
#43 Xu Lin Shenzhen Lanhe Technologies Co. 5
#43 Harry Mays North America Packaging 5
#43 Anoop Khurana 5
#43 Thomas Bryan University of California 5
#43 Terence G. Ryan Medtronic 5
#43 Clarissa J. Nobile University of California 5
#43 Asier Ozaeta Rodriguez Qc Ware 5

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