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 Kic Thermal Profiling, Qualcomm, Avery Dennison. That works out to 169.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 12,651–12,700 of 23,606 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11944 Miles Moreau Kic Thermal Profiling 2
#11944 Prasanna Chandrakant Inamdar Qualcomm 2
#11944 Douglas William Martin Avery Dennison 2
#11944 James Ha Science Applications International 2
#11944 Gregory P. Chapelle Trw Limited 2
#11944 Lance M. Bodnar Trw Limited 2
#11944 Yonggui Mao HP 2
#11944 Paul Chan Qualcomm 2
#11944 Laurence D Eddy 2
#11944 Chad Salinas Danaher 2
#11944 Nirupama Locanindi Qualcomm 2
#11944 Andre Lehovich Decision Sciences International 2
#11944 Simo Petteri Kangaslampi Qualcomm 2
#11944 Gretchen T. Vahle Consumer Safety Technology 2
#11944 Jeremy Ward Ziva 2
#11944 Susan Meyer USDA 2
#11944 Sarabjot Singh Khangura Qualcomm 2
#11944 Stanley Maloy Vaxiion Therapeutics 2
#11944 Jincai Li Verenium 2
#11944 Kelly J. Eberle Gilead Sciences 2
#11944 KeeHyun Park Qualcomm 2
#11944 Ryan Milne Qualcomm 2
#11944 James Maida 2
#11944 Jenny Zhang Opera Solutions Usa 2
#11944 Randy S. Robbins 2
#11944 Christina Hauser University of California 2
#11944 Yu Zeng University Of Utah 2
#11944 Jamie Milligan Loma Linda University 2
#11944 Roderick James Fielding Verenium 2
#11944 Pinaki Shankar Chanda Maxlinear 2
#11944 Henry W. Talbot Mycogen 2
#11944 Arash Mashayekhi Cirrus Logic 2
#11944 David Towery 2
#11944 Giridhar Kapalli Qualcomm 2
#11944 Valmik Bhargava University of California 2
#11944 Ryan Wilshusen HP 2
#11944 Kevin Joseph Chandler 2
#11944 Angel Valdes Lytx 2
#11944 Nikolay Topilski Akamai Technologies 2
#11944 Steven Mark Ranum Rohr 2
#11944 Terrence R. Jones Agouron Pharmaceuticals 2
#11944 Matheus W. Jonkers Intuit 2
#11944 Corey Francis IBM 2
#11944 WAYNE KIM 2
#11944 James K. Leahey Sony 2
#11944 Octavio Lima Ericsson 2
#11944 Joel Johnston Sony 2
#11944 Qinyi Yan Allez Health 2
#11944 Jessie Haskamp Allez Health 2
#11944 Rodrigo Zermeño Benitez Achates Power 2

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