Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Rancho Santa Fe, CA ranks #815 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 4,133 patents from 335 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Rancho Santa Fe, CA include Avago Technologies General Ip (Singapore) Pte., Academia Sinica, Bristol-Myers Squibb. That works out to 1309.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 335 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Scott C. Harris 252
2 Xuemin Chen Avago Technologies General Ip (Singapore) Pte. 215
3 Chi-Huey Wong Academia Sinica 179
#4 George W. Muller Bristol-Myers Squibb 172
#5 Erkki Ruoslahti La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation 133
#6 Ahmad Jalali Qualcomm 127
#7 Murray A. Reicher D.R. Systems 118
#8 Jens Ole Sorensen Primtec 113
#9 Mark Miller Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated 105
#10 Douglas P. Brown Teradata Us 101
#11 Xuemin Chen 93
#12 John A. Moon Illumina 85
#13 David William King Ips Group 84
#14 Allen Minh-Triet Tran Qualcomm 82
#15 Gurkanwal Singh Sahota Qualcomm 74
#16 Michael Lamb Ecolink Intelligent Technology 71
#17 Lee D. Arnold Abbott 65
#18 Chun Yu Qualcomm 53
#19 Philip Felgner Vical Incorporated 49
#20 Frank Mercurio Biotheryx 48
#21 Harry E. Gruber Tocagen 47
#21 Ingram S. Chodorow Placontrol 47
#23 Anthony B. Pinkerton Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute 43
#24 Thomas J. Campanaro Total Gym Global 42
#25 Kenneth J. Widder Sydnexis 40
#26 Michael Kreiss Kreiss Enterprises 39
#26 Jay Lichter University of California 39
#28 Tim Schnell Ip Holding Company 38
#28 Donald W. Becker Viasat 38
#30 Edwin J. Hunter The Toro 36
#30 Anthony G. Macaluso Sito Mobile R&D Ip 36
#32 Clint L. Kemerling Psemi 34
#33 Shivakumar Balasubramanyam Qualcomm 33
#33 Jason M. Cox Merck 33
#35 Greg Crandall Danaher 31
#36 Anthony Wiley Open Text 30
#37 Aly Ismail Apple 29
#37 Christopher Michael Gervais Zest Ip Holdings 29
#39 John Polo Chiron 27
#39 Chienchung Chang Qualcomm 27
#41 Sean P. McGeehan Atacor Medical 26
#42 Jeffrey S. Youel Gopro 25
#43 Nicky Caiazza Lallemand Hungary Liquidity Management 24
#44 Myles Comerford Clearpak 23
#44 Mark Marinovich Pacific Handy Cutter 23
#46 Andrew Benedek Anaergia 22
#47 Kyle Bulloch Thermo Fisher 21
#48 Wayne C. Drevets Johnson & Johnson 19
#48 Bradford James DUFT Coda Therapeutics 19
#48 Donald Bernstein Sotera Wireless 19

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