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 Adverum Biotechnologies, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Qualcomm. That works out to 169.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 12,451–12,500 of 23,606 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11944 Diana CEPEDA Adverum Biotechnologies 2
#11944 Jennifer Griffin Bristol-Myers Squibb 2
#11944 Abdelrahman Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim Qualcomm 2
#11944 Eai-hsin A. Kuo Qualcomm 2
#11944 Guillermo Auyon Cheang Amazon 2
#11944 William Wei-Ting KUO TSMC 2
#11944 Stanley S. Toncich 2
#11944 Farid Khadem Block Medical 2
#11944 Ernest Rimanosky Powergenix Systems 2
#11944 Chi-Yuan Fan University of California 2
#11944 Kathryn E. Lockwood Cardiac Pacemakers 2
#11944 Kristin Marron Eli Lilly 2
#11944 William R. LeMaster Biotix 2
#11944 Levente Peter Jakab S-Tec 2
#11944 Stan Vukajlovich Nexus Dx 2
#11944 Katelyn Fukushima Chan Ogio International 2
#11944 Stephen R. Sampson Cubic Defense Systems 2
#11944 Galen D. Cauble US Air Force 2
#11944 Henry Theo F. Guico Sony 2
#11944 Lauren E. Polander Georgia Tech Research 2
#11944 Brian J. Fratilla 2
#11944 Andrew Zaffron Sony 2
#11944 Mark D. Brentnall University Of Washington 2
#11944 Cathi Reyes 2
#11944 Nihit Bajaj Qualcomm 2
#11944 Kwok Wu Third Wave Technologies 2
#11944 Noel Kennebeck Yembo 2
#11944 David Brian Schmiedeberg US Air Force 2
#11944 Michael B. Leahy, Jr. 2
#11944 John Liang Tan Caltech 2
#11944 Michiel Petrus Loetter Apple 2
#11944 Luke Jarvis 2
#11944 Tian Qin Scripps Research 2
#11944 Tricia Nguyen Lewis Illumina 2
#11944 Erin Noel Howell 2
#11944 Clifford D. DeNicolo Acushnet 2
#11944 Brijesh Pillai Infosys Limited 2
#11944 Pedro Emiliano Paro Filho Imec Vzw 2
#11944 Martin Indarte 2
#11944 Delbert Dale Johnson 2
#11944 Chaur S. Wen Solar Turbines Incorporated 2
#11944 Song TIAN Qualcomm 2
#11944 Peter Thompson Grote Industries 2
#11944 Wolfgang Reinhard Ludwig Notz Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited 2
#11944 Chuck Waterman 2
#11944 Neil Brahma Illumina 2
#11944 Asim Muhammad Muneer Qualcomm 2
#11944 Tony Gogoi Qualcomm 2
#11944 Chris S. Lyon Bp Corporation North America 2
#11944 Karthik Raghavan University Of Texas System 2

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