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

Showing 12,151–12,200 of 23,606 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11944 Hashim Shaik Qualcomm 2
#11944 Hermanth Sampath Qualcomm 2
#11944 Ian Scott Sells 2
#11944 Douglas C. Hoffman 2
#11944 Ali Navrozally Apple 2
#11944 Glenn Kawesch 2
#11944 Edsel Chromie 2
#11944 August Karlstedt Discord 2
#11944 Jeff Hewett General Instrument 2
#11944 Kheng Lim Takeda San Diego 2
#11944 Ido Tal University of California 2
#11944 Steig Breloff Zeta Global 2
#11944 Justin Cuzens Agena Bioscience 2
#11944 Anthony Gomez 2
#11944 Ivan Neflali Cardenas Perez Hti Ip 2
#11944 Clark F. Bradley US Air Force 2
#11944 Richard Lumpkin Epitracker 2
#11944 Leon GATENO Hughes Network Systems 2
#11944 Zhengwei Peng Agouron Pharmaceuticals 2
#11944 Grace S. Liang Bial-Portela & Ca, S.A. 2
#11944 Anne M. Fonte 2
#11944 Dawn Nowlin Agouron Pharmaceuticals 2
#11944 Paul Riker Boomcloud 360 2
#11944 Zei Zhang Genetronics 2
#11944 Jose E. N. Gonzales Immune Response Corporation 2
#11944 Tongjia Yin Gen-Probe Incorporated 2
#11944 Praveen Kumar Yaramada Qualcomm 2
#11944 Karthik Chitireddy Qualcomm 2
#11944 Garrett P. Prins Solar Turbines Incorporated 2
#11944 Zlatan Vukosavljevic 2
#11944 Robert G. Caputo 2
#11944 Richard Good 2
#11944 Nikita Malavia 2
#11944 Baylor Frantz Halozyme 2
#11944 Scott Beacher Halozyme 2
#11944 Elias Miguel ORTIZ 2
#11944 Kevin Kemmerrer Inovio Pharmaceuticals 2
#11944 Jacinto Berrios HP 2
#11944 Ryan Lister Her Majesty The Queen In Right Of Canada As Represented By The Minister Of Natual Resources 2
#11944 Jeffrey D. Anson 2
#11944 James Grotting Nuvasive 2
#11944 Thomas M. Lugo, III 2
#11944 Thomas Lepetit University of California 2
#11944 Kyle L. Kimmel 2
#11944 William Swanson 2
#11944 Marlene Lloret Jakks Pacific 2
#11944 Ken Rogers 2
#11944 Yuebiao Wang 2
#11944 Sean J. Alexander Solar Turbines Incorporated 2
#11944 Huong-Thu Ton-Nu Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited 2

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