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

Showing 12,601–12,650 of 23,606 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11944 Akinori Hanatani Passport Technologies 2
#11944 William Scott Seebauer Oracle 2
#11944 Joseph DiFrancisco 2
#11944 Douglas H. Austin 2
#11944 David M Bahnemann Qualcomm 2
#11944 Aaron Robbins Science Applications International 2
#11944 Nema Link Ai Incorporated 2
#11944 Xuehze Zheng Oracle 2
#11944 Benjamin V. Stratton Science Applications International 2
#11944 Scott Leas Tandem Diabetes Care 2
#11944 Ryan Tung Vu HP 2
#11944 Patrick D. Glass 2
#11944 Tzu-Hsuan CHOU Askey Computer 2
#11944 Kate Blease Signal Pharmaceuticals 2
#11944 Gusten Brainerd Octet Medical 2
#11944 Dan Ortuno Octet Medical 2
#11944 Rudy Bermudez Daylight Solutions 2
#11944 Hesu Huang Qualcomm 2
#11944 Ben Reisman Octet Medical 2
#11944 Mark Bermal Daylight Solutions 2
#11944 Timothy Rodwell Arizona Board Of Regents On Behalf Of Northern Arizona University 2
#11944 Antonino Catanzaro Arizona Board Of Regents On Behalf Of Northern Arizona University 2
#11944 Luis Retana Varian Medical Systems 2
#11944 Mukesh Gordhan New Bis Safe Luxco S.À R.L 2
#11944 Sunil Kamavaram Qualcomm 2
#11944 Derek John Hook University of Minnesota 2
#11944 Betsy Dokken Tandem Diabetes Care 2
#11944 Irene Nava Solar Turbines Incorporated 2
#11944 Yeeting CHONG Atyr Pharma 2
#11944 Mohammed Ansari Siemens Aktiengesellschaft 2
#11944 Matthew Michael Wold Octet Medical 2
#11944 Christopher Chastain Neuhauser Cubic 2
#11944 George Sakaldasis Illumina 2
#11944 Steven Lotito Zuora 2
#11944 Hai Le Qualcomm 2
#11944 Jose Romero-Mariona US Air Force 2
#11944 William Jencks 2
#11944 Danling Gu Canji 2
#11944 Mark S. Paulson Solar Turbines Incorporated 2
#11944 KC Lee Ericsson 2
#11944 Lala Mamedova Amylin Pharmaceuticals 2
#11944 Sean Truong Illumina 2
#11944 James Qian Zhang Qualcomm 2
#11944 Rajagopal Jeenagala Qualcomm 2
#11944 David R. Lusterman Sony 2
#11944 Andrew Higier The United States Of America, As Represented By Secretary Of The Navy 2
#11944 Prasad Rajeevalochanam Bhadri Qualcomm 2
#11944 Viraj Deshpande Illumina 2
#11944 Prasanna Venkata Santosh Kumar Tallapragada Qualcomm 2
#11944 John Cooper Roddey Edico Genome 2

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