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 University of California, Wayne State University, Cypress Semiconductor. That works out to 169.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 12,201–12,250 of 23,606 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11944 Jessica Marie Godin University of California 2
#11944 Bo Pei Wayne State University 2
#11944 Patrick Coupe Cypress Semiconductor 2
#11944 Silei Ma Qualcomm 2
#11944 Jason Yuan University Of Arizona 2
#11944 Torsten Bark Aktiebolaget Skf 2
#11944 Dmitry Viktor Fyodorov Case Western Reserve University 2
#11944 Laura Ann Hart Qualcomm 2
#11944 Leslie Nangle Greene Atyr Pharma 2
#11944 Forest Sun Patton HP 2
#11944 Gerrit Los Research Development Foundation 2
#11944 Ann MENEFEE Atyr Pharma 2
#11944 Liting ZHAI Atyr Pharma 2
#11944 Kristina HAMEL Atyr Pharma 2
#11944 Rajesh Belani Atyr Pharma 2
#11944 Karthik Govindhasamy Nokia 2
#11944 Yee Ting (Esther) CHONG Atyr Pharma 2
#11944 Kaitlyn RAUCH Atyr Pharma 2
#11944 Yanyan GENG Atyr Pharma 2
#11944 Sameer Shah Dassault Systemes Simulia 2
#11944 Xiaofan Dong Biocept 2
#11944 Shih-Hsun Chen City Of Hope 2
#11944 Fernando Igartua Qualcomm 2
#11944 Justin James Qualcomm 2
#11944 Xuejun Huang Parsons 2
#11944 Xiao-Xiong Lu Arena Pharmaceuticals 2
#11944 Younsu Kim The Johns Hopkins University 2
#11944 Douglas R. Mitchell GE 2
#11944 Jeff R. Truesdale Deepsea Power & Light 2
#11944 Fred Van Goor Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated 2
#11944 Chandrasekhar Singasani Qualcomm 2
#11944 Rick Robert Bengson 2
#11944 Monika Kalenski 2
#11944 George Thomas Ericksen Intuit 2
#11944 Jae Min Shin Qualcomm 2
#11944 Yasser Sadek 2
#11944 Idan Kadosh 2
#11944 Won-ick Lee Qualcomm 2
#11944 Jon Drechny Overland Storage 2
#11944 Yana Mohanty 2
#11944 Thomas Harold McGovern 2
#11944 Arjun Kamath Renesas Electronics America 2
#11944 Lou Uzel Powergenix Systems 2
#11944 Daehak Kim Qualcomm 2
#11944 Younghwan Kang Qualcomm 2
#11944 Neeraj Salathia Illumina 2
#11944 Michael Vrable Google 2
#11944 Maxwell Wong Manscaped 2
#11944 John D. Turner Tt Systems 2
#11944 Miguel Olaizola Algae Systems 2

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