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 Ncr, Qualcomm, Wispry. That works out to 169.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 12,051–12,100 of 23,606 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11944 Kevin K. Gold Ncr 2
#11944 Garrett Rosich 2
#11944 Rakesh Nattoji Rajaram Qualcomm 2
#11944 Steven Spencer Watkins Wispry 2
#11944 William Reck 2
#11944 Arne Croizat Joseph Mortensen Qualcomm 2
#11944 Pilgrim Jackson Bristol-Myers Squibb 2
#11944 Ignacio Rivera-Duarte US Air Force 2
#11944 Levi Shouse 2
#11944 Ziad Mansour Qualcomm 2
#11944 Justin Yongjin Kim Qualcomm 2
#11944 Joseph Daniel GARVEY Qualcomm 2
#11944 Sudish Mukundan HP 2
#11944 Haibiao Gong Encodia 2
#11944 Sufian Munir 2
#11944 Chengyue YU Qualcomm 2
#11944 Jonas Opperman General Atomics 2
#11944 Vivian Nguyen Turning Point Therapeutics 2
#11944 Arnold H. Dillemuth 2
#11944 Xiaoxiao MA Hainan University 2
#11944 Martin Chang Bay Microsystems 2
#11944 James McMenamy Alere Switzerland Gmbh 2
#11944 Mark W. Pandori Santa Clara University 2
#11944 John R. Markle V&P Scientific 2
#11944 Savannah J. Afsahi Nanomedical Diagnostics 2
#11944 Gerald L. McMillen Unknown 2
#11944 Nikhil Challa Qualcomm 2
#11944 Zhlyuan Zhang Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited 2
#11944 Olcay Boz Experian Information Solutions 2
#11944 Juhi Lee Kirin Beer Kabushiki Kaisha 2
#11944 Jason A. Stannard Intrinsic Lifesciences 2
#11944 GeengYee Chong Mitchell International 2
#11944 Steve Joel Brown Chugai Pharmaceutical 2
#11944 Jeffrey R. Ridgway Information Systems Laboratories 2
#11944 Albert Deirchow Lin Science Applications International 2
#11944 David Savage Johnson Matthey Electronics 2
#11944 Todd Redmond Conduent Business Services 2
#11944 Xiaondong Li Senomyx 2
#11944 David B. Prickett Arris Enterprises 2
#11944 Vibha Dave Arena Pharmaceuticals 2
#11944 Todd Johnsgard Qualcomm 2
#11944 Mohammad Sotoudeh Synthasome 2
#11944 Erik Zhang Doordash 2
#11944 Guilherme Pereira Arena Pharmaceuticals 2
#11944 Xinxin Jin Microsoft 2
#11944 Mihajlo Tomic The United States Of America, As Represented By Secretary Of The Navy 2
#11944 Andrew Thomas Galkowski Avive Solutions 2
#11944 James Y. C. Sze Visa 2
#11944 Peter Ring Qualcomm 2
#11944 Abel LIN 2

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