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

Showing 12,551–12,600 of 23,606 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11944 Prateek ANAND Intuit 2
#11944 PRIYA BISARYA 2
#11944 Carl Stephen Ewig Accelrys 2
#11944 Niranjan Ramesh Pendharkar Qualcomm 2
#11944 N. Paul King Scripps Research 2
#11944 Jaeyun Moon University of California 2
#11944 Javier Rodriguez Fernandez Qualcomm 2
#11944 Marwan Chehadeh 2
#11944 Brett J. Going Apple 2
#11944 Reza Kalbasi Samsung 2
#11944 Daniel J. Plummer University of California 2
#11944 Tim Neubert Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated 2
#11944 Sura Hadi Danisco Us 2
#11944 Russell McDaniel Carefusion 303 2
#11944 Stephen L. Childress US Air Force 2
#11944 Ben Weinrib 2
#11944 Frederick Berretta 2
#11944 Sami Abdulwahab ABDULKADIR Avidity Biosciences 2
#11944 Sergei Malkhosyan Stratagene 2
#11944 Hector Rafael Rodriguez-Figueroa Qualcomm 2
#11944 Robert C. Coleman Qualcomm 2
#11944 Ellen Nolan Teradata Us 2
#11944 Ovidiu Cristian Miclea Qualcomm 2
#11944 Frederick D. Easley Unknown 2
#11944 Piero ZAPPI Qualcomm 2
#11944 Jenessa Smith University of Pennsylvania 2
#11944 Kristine Elizabeth Currier 2
#11944 Bhadri Kubendran Qualcomm 2
#11944 Brent Van Dussen Limelight Networks 2
#11944 Robert W. Guild 2
#11944 Qinwen Xu Qualcomm 2
#11944 Margaret C. Barr Cornell Research Foundation 2
#11944 George Stewart Stringfellow 2
#11944 Lawrence Jason Muhlstein Snap 2
#11944 Larry P. Nolen Kyocera 2
#11944 Jason Paul Viafora 2
#11944 Ajit L. Jain Qualcomm 2
#11944 Harlen Bayha Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 2
#11944 Linda S. Perez Ncr 2
#11944 Sean Xun Warrior Sports 2
#11944 Zhichen Xi 2
#11944 Bryan Kocol Adobe 2
#11944 Jeho Lee HP 2
#11944 Thomas Owen Bialek San Diego Gas & Electric 2
#11944 Hassan M. ElAbdellaoui Torrey Pines Institute For Molecular Studies 2
#11944 Ryan Kalb Viridos 2
#11944 Michael P. Mogul 2
#11944 Martin McDaniel Cardiac Pacemakers 2
#11944 Iain Finlay Qualcomm 2
#11944 Srivastava Nanduri Sony 2

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