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

Showing 12,501–12,550 of 23,606 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11944 Song-Hua Ke Novex 2
#11944 Paul Brian SHEEHY Qualcomm 2
#11944 Khisal Alvi Phyton Holdings 2
#11944 James Straus Amazon 2
#11944 Saju Palayur Maxlinear 2
#11944 Fred F. VanGoor Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated 2
#11944 Chan Fernando National Research Council Of Canada 2
#11944 Charles Custon 2
#11944 Adam Mullett Seescan 2
#11944 Kyle Falkenberg 2
#11944 Juan J. Silva Ericsson 2
#11944 Samuel Roger Jesse Hoare Neurocrine Biosciences 2
#11944 Deependra Kumar Ban 2
#11944 Matthew Austin McAdams 2
#11944 Efram Burlingame Analog Devices 2
#11944 Matthew Yerou Biolegend 2
#11944 Robert Dockery 2
#11944 Nicholas Callamaras Senomyx 2
#11944 K. Shreyas Hegde Qualcomm 2
#11944 Chris Bennett Qualcomm 2
#11944 Jalaj Swami Qualcomm 2
#11944 Mangesh Ghiware Qualcomm 2
#11944 Byron A. Klemaske, II 2
#11944 Guillermo Quintero Nexmo 2
#11944 Pascale Charest Universite De Montreal 2
#11944 Crosby Hayhurst Johnson Hamilton Sundstrand 2
#11944 Victor Alvin Klemaske 2
#11944 Mauricio Guerra Ericsson 2
#11944 Michael Antar Witricity 2
#11944 Seyed Mohammadsadegh Tabatabaei Yazdi Qualcomm 2
#11944 Frederick C. Mertz RTX (Raytheon) 2
#11944 Samatha Kotla Qualcomm 2
#11944 Balwinderpal Sachdev Qualcomm 2
#11944 Juha Sirkka Qualcomm 2
#11944 Anirudha Siripuram US Air Force 2
#11944 Daniel Thomas Smith Digital River 2
#11944 Shahraum Scott Sobhani 2
#11944 Jeffery Kester Intuit 2
#11944 Joseph F. Tooker General Atomics 2
#11944 Jianxia Luo Hughes Network Systems 2
#11944 Guilherme K. Hoefel Qualcomm 2
#11944 Santosh Gopalan Qualcomm 2
#11944 Innsu Daniel Kim Illumina 2
#11944 Leopold Boemer Avago Technologies General Ip (Singapore) Pte. 2
#11944 Jonathan L. McIntyre 2
#11944 Ana Paula Galvao da Silva 2
#11944 Steven K. Whiteside US Air Force 2
#11944 Andrew Pawlowski Singular Genomics Systems 2
#11944 Shim Patel Qualcomm 2
#11944 Rafael Amezcua Arreola 2

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