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 Carefusion 303, Murata Manufacturing Co., Georgia Tech Research. That works out to 169.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 12,751–12,800 of 23,606 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11944 Nicholas Addiego Carefusion 303 2
#11944 Leland Gilreath Murata Manufacturing Co. 2
#11944 Mikhail S. Belen'kii Georgia Tech Research 2
#11944 Greg Nieuwenhuis Groundmetrics 2
#11944 Mark Takahashi 2
#11944 Varun Ravi Kumar Qualcomm 2
#11944 Bed Raj Kandel Qualcomm 2
#11944 Avishag Ravid 2
#11944 Jonathan Zhu 2
#11944 Young-Kee Lee US Air Force 2
#11944 Steve Hicks Ericsson 2
#11944 Zhimin Song Micron 2
#11944 Mu-Huan Chiang Qualcomm 2
#11944 Elaine M. Weidenhammer Nanogen 2
#11944 Jeff Moguillansky Futurewei Technologies 2
#11944 William E. Stonecipher Applied Superconetics 2
#11944 Nils Paz RTX (Raytheon) 2
#11944 Brooke Emerling Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 2
#11944 Djamal Bouzida Agouron Pharmaceuticals 2
#11944 Haritha Uppalapati Hgst Netherlands, B.V. 2
#11944 Tom Boyd 2
#11944 Rebecca Saenz University of California 2
#11944 Alexandrios Mathew Asml Netherlands B.V. 2
#11944 Chun Wu Academia Sinica 2
#11944 Ross H. Winnick Cymer 2
#11944 Alven Jan Delos Santos Eusantos Airgain 2
#11944 Wai Kit Siu Qualcomm 2
#11944 Ching-jou Lim Ceruliean Pharma 2
#11944 Dominic Joseph Steinitz Intermountain Intellectual Asset Management 2
#11944 Susan L. Morales US Air Force 2
#11944 Yutai Koh Belkin International 2
#11944 Nicolas Sean Frisby Intermountain Intellectual Asset Management 2
#11944 Todd W. Kelley Intermountain Intellectual Asset Management 2
#11944 Rachel Bruno Solar Turbines Incorporated 2
#11944 Mikhail Toupikov Intermountain Intellectual Asset Management 2
#11944 Payman Hosseinzadeh-Shanjani Entropic Communications 2
#11944 Mark Joseph Durst Intermountain Intellectual Asset Management 2
#11944 Christopher M. Rath Allegheny Singer Research Institute 2
#11944 Vicki Christine Mealer-Burke Qualcomm 2
#11944 Michael Christopher Ross GE 2
#11944 Kristin Parsley Atkins Qualcomm 2
#11944 Ryan Joseph Anderson The Timken 2
#11944 Dmitri Essiounine Roblox 2
#11944 Vadim MALIS University of California 2
#11944 Pauline T. Lieu Dexcom 2
#11944 Joseph R. Paravia 2
#11944 Paul Cooley Bank of America 2
#11944 Bill Sperry HP 2
#11944 Mengyao Zhou Qualcomm 2
#11944 Micheal Slattery 2

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