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 Human Biomolecular Research Institute, IBM, Qualcomm. That works out to 169.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 12,401–12,450 of 23,606 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11944 Erik Willems Human Biomolecular Research Institute 2
#11944 Dusty Sargent IBM 2
#11944 Michelle Klein Qualcomm 2
#11944 Kevin W. Harris Quake Global 2
#11944 Marcus A. Caines 2
#11944 Robert Murad Schroeder Industries 2
#11944 Pedro Morgado Adobe 2
#11944 Andrew C. Forsman General Atomics 2
#11944 Michelle Chiang 2
#11944 Megan E. Neubig Gilead Sciences 2
#11944 Daniel L. Lulue US Air Force 2
#11944 Ernan Liu Qualcomm 2
#11944 Cynthia Gwyn Tinker Kyocera 2
#11944 Charles Wesley Maplebear 2
#11944 Jose Gabriel Corona Qualcomm 2
#11944 Jeremy Winston Carlsmed 2
#11944 John B. W. Lett Novartis Ag 2
#11944 Vadim Cherezov Scripps Research 2
#11944 Vinod Ananth Disney 2
#11944 William S. Callaway, III Vala Sciences 2
#11944 Mateera Panichkul Nokia 2
#11944 Udayakumar Menon Qualcomm 2
#11944 Alexander Roeca Carlsmed 2
#11944 Suresh Bollapragada Qualcomm 2
#11944 Olav Laudij IBM 2
#11944 Akarsh Ningoji Rao Kolekar Qualcomm 2
#11944 Frederick Luther Gotwald General Instrument 2
#11944 Alex Seguritan Hamilton Sundstrand 2
#11944 Wen Qian Li 2
#11944 Yurij Ionov Stratagene 2
#11944 Joel D. Underwood 2
#11944 Dequn Wang 2
#11944 Akiko Eguchi University of California 2
#11944 Muhammad Arif Munif Qualcomm 2
#11944 Thomas G. Pollard New Media Co. 2
#11944 John Kelson 2
#11944 Robert T. Jennings 2
#11944 Nelson Paez 2
#11944 Woo Hyun Yoon Arena Pharmaceuticals 2
#11944 Olga Pelc 2
#11944 Michelle L. Koenig Motorola Mobility 2
#11944 Amir Rajaee Qualcomm 2
#11944 Xiabo Wang Acea Biosciences 2
#11944 Petru Christian Budianu Qualcomm 2
#11944 Jodi Kodesh 2
#11944 Eliza R. Dawson Whitewater West Industries 2
#11944 Mark Kodesh 2
#11944 Joel Mawhinney Hamilton Sundstrand 2
#11944 Navyaa Sinha 2
#11944 Johann Fransson 2

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