Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Sept 30, 2025

San Diego, CA ranks #13 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 235,197 patents from 23,606 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in San Diego, CA include Benchmark Electronics, Qualcomm, Illumina. That works out to 169.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 11,401–11,450 of 23,606 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#9825 Francisco Iwao Hirata Benchmark Electronics 3
#9825 Deepthi Pavagada Qualcomm 3
#9825 Young Uk Yim Qualcomm 3
#9825 Kaitlin PUGLIESE Illumina 3
#9825 Daniel Baxter Brown Line Metalworks 3
#9825 Son Dinh The United States Of America, As Represented By Secretary Of The Navy 3
#9825 Jerry Selness 3
#9825 Thomas C. Broadhead Leapfrog Enterprises 3
#9825 David J. Edelblute US Air Force 3
#9825 Clifford T. Boro Leapfrog Enterprises 3
#9825 Zhe Wang Kyocera Avx Components (San Diego) 3
#9825 Amanda Rickard 3
#9825 Devin Vollmer Space Charge 3
#9825 Venugopal Sanaka Qualcomm 3
#9825 Jari Niemela Nice North America 3
#9825 Bettina M. Rosner 3
#9825 Swathi SESHADRI Qualcomm 3
#9825 Michael C. Klaber 3
#9825 Bi-Yu Li Syngenta Participations Ag 3
#9825 Mark Gibbard Ericsson 3
#9825 Daigo Yachi Earthlite Massage Tables 3
#9825 William J. Elks 3
#9825 Spencer Pettine Nuvasive 3
#9825 Alan M. Franks Koch Membrane Systems 3
#9825 Lauren Danielle Armenta Dexcom 3
#9825 Panayotis Argyroudis Qualcomm 3
#9825 Willy Marzec Varian 3
#9825 Daniel Z. Glazerman Aptargroup 3
#9825 Ryan Nicholl Fabric8Labs 3
#9825 Josh Allen Brown Nayya Health 3
#9825 Gregory C. Holtz The Salk Institute 3
#9825 Samy Shafik Tawfik Zaynoun Qualcomm 3
#9825 Miguel Garcia-Guzman Blanco Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated 3
#9825 Damon Lou 3
#9825 Kumar Kanti Ghosh Qualcomm 3
#9825 Piyush Gehalot Vala Sciences 3
#9825 Natalia De Val Scripps Research 3
#9825 Michael Jason Potter 3
#9825 Pranav Soman Syracuse University 3
#9825 Gordon B. Beacham Google 3
#9825 Shane Bowen Illumina 3
#9825 Vito D. Elarde E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 3
#9825 David Ward University of California 3
#9825 Rudy Padilla US Air Force 3
#9825 Abolfazl Hajisami Honda Motor Co. 3
#9825 Jiagang Zhao University of California 3
#9825 Eric James Joyce Everyone Counts 3
#9825 Howard A. Wilcox US Air Force 3
#9825 Jalal Haddad Wayne State University 3
#9825 William O. Jacobson Union Oil Company Of California 3

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