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 The United States Of America, As Represented By Secretary Of The Navy, D.R. Systems, Servicenow. That works out to 169.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 12,101–12,150 of 23,606 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11944 Gunther H. Rosen The United States Of America, As Represented By Secretary Of The Navy 2
#11944 Florent Saint-Clair D.R. Systems 2
#11944 Chris Widlowski Servicenow 2
#11944 Brian J. Dyson Ca 2
#11944 Vivek Vijayan Nair Qualcomm 2
#11944 Atin Kumar Qualcomm 2
#11944 Douglas Bradley Servicenow 2
#11944 Lee Young Spall Qualcomm 2
#11944 Norris Geng Qualcomm 2
#11944 Ty Aloe 2
#11944 Joh Reeves Palantir Technologies 2
#11944 Alfred Berger Ciba-Geigy 2
#11944 Christopher Paul Schodin HP 2
#11944 Ming Huang Aviva Biosciences 2
#11944 Gary N. Miertschin General Atomics 2
#11944 John Alfred Tan Qualcomm 2
#11944 Cheng Li Speed Tech 2
#11944 Larry Schnack Ericsson 2
#11944 Theresa Starr Shenzhen Goodix Technology Co. 2
#11944 Naoto Kusunose Chugai Pharmaceutical 2
#11944 Susan C. Lin General Atomics 2
#11944 Parisa Abedinpour Pellficure Pharmaceuticals 2
#11944 Glen L. Peterson 2
#11944 Erica Forsberg University Of Nebraska 2
#11944 Maheedhar Gollamudi Qualcomm 2
#11944 Elisa Castagnola San Diego State University Research Foundation 2
#11944 Gary Aires 2
#11944 Shiae Park Snaptrack 2
#11944 Eugene R. Parente Unknown 2
#11944 Chris Wykoff 2
#11944 Timothy W. Bratcher 2
#11944 Roah Jishi IBM 2
#11944 Reema Shah Servicenow 2
#11944 Kenneth Vail Metallic Power 2
#11944 Michael Joseph Nicoletti 2
#11944 Thomas Ian Walpole 2
#11944 Jennifer Lyons Mitchell International 2
#11944 Ingolf Heiko Krueger Viasat 2
#11944 Aleksander T. Amagasaki Otter Products 2
#11944 Kim Marie Walpole 2
#11944 Jason Edward Wallace 2
#11944 Mathew Peterson Neuren Pharmaceuticals Limited 2
#11944 Arturo Jordan Sony 2
#11944 Kevin McGuire Digital Turbine 2
#11944 Abdolhamid Badiozamani Brain 2
#11944 Timothy David Tang Qualcomm 2
#11944 Ivy Jiang Emergent Product Development Gaithersburg 2
#11944 Celia P. Jenkinson 2
#11944 Patrick Cantey, III Qualcomm 2
#11944 Vincent van Donck 2

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