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 Chang'An University, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, Qualcomm. That works out to 169.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 12,701–12,750 of 23,606 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11944 Itty Atcravi 2
#11944 Lu Zeng Chang'An University 2
#11944 Scott D. Olsen Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited 2
#11944 Chih-Lung Kao Qualcomm 2
#11944 Darrell Sellers Space Micro 2
#11944 Mark D. Kafka Chugai Pharmaceutical 2
#11944 Evan Demkiw 2
#11944 Ajmal Godil Broadcom 2
#11944 Farrukh HIJAZ Qualcomm 2
#11944 Susan M. Hennenfent 2
#11944 Debbie Forray Designer Molecules 2
#11944 Pilar Loren Pickering Zuora 2
#11944 Rose LoBello Dermatrends 2
#11944 Greg Maguire 2
#11944 Dustin Townsend 2
#11944 Andrew P. Corvin Seescan 2
#11944 Robert E. Corringham Ambit Biosciences 2
#11944 Radhika Agrawal Qualcomm 2
#11944 Michael J. Thilenius Hyduro 2
#11944 Robert Terkeltaub University of California 2
#11944 Andrew Burritt Galapagos Nv 2
#11944 Mihai Lupu Broadcom 2
#11944 Phil A. Patton San Diego Gas & Electric 2
#11944 Duy Nguyen CEA 2
#11944 Jonathan Gerrard Duckers Solar Turbines Incorporated 2
#11944 Lid Wong 2
#11944 Wai Ki CHAN Apple 2
#11944 David Kenneth Magill Zuora 2
#11944 Abul Shams Safdar Entropic Communications 2
#11944 Bjorn Erik Grubelich Qualcomm 2
#11944 Jung-Il Hong Abb Research 2
#11944 Mark R. Hansen AbbVie 2
#11944 Shigeru CJ Okumura Tdk 2
#11944 Vijaya Shankar Sadasivan Solar Turbines Incorporated 2
#11944 Carlos Vasquez Roemmers S.A.I.C.F. 2
#11944 Pankaj Yogendra Tiwari Solar Turbines Incorporated 2
#11944 Rick Gessner Netscape Communications 2
#11944 Kristin R. Carner Pasteur Mérieux Sérums Et Vaccins S.A. 2
#11944 Vinayak Suresh Qualcomm 2
#11944 James Pluth Mayo Foundation 2
#11944 Maria Peck 2
#11944 Alexie Lukashev 2
#11944 Farooq Rehman RTX (Raytheon) 2
#11944 John T. Buchanan 2
#11944 Peter Mains Illumina 2
#11944 Weifeng Feng Axiom Microdevices 2
#11944 Christopher S. Franklin D.R. Systems 2
#11944 Mallikarjuna Rao Gorumuchu Qualcomm 2
#11944 Christian Yair Reyes Qualcomm 2
#11944 Gavin Sermona Greatcall 2

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