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 Rudolph Technologies, Becton, Dickinson And, Eli Lilly. That works out to 169.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 12,801–12,850 of 23,606 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11944 Gregory Olmstead Rudolph Technologies 2
#11944 Thomas J. Standley Becton, Dickinson And 2
#11944 Wei Jennifer Yang Eli Lilly 2
#11944 Richard Gunther Saudi Arabian Oil 2
#11944 Mohammed TAWASHI Qualcomm 2
#11944 Stan P. Boyer Ivac 2
#11944 Gary Lee Samad, Jr. Ensemble Communications 2
#11944 Huaibin Yang Ideal Industries 2
#11944 Tajchai Navapanich 2
#11944 P. Greg Sherwood Alcatel Lucent 2
#11944 Tracy L. Bale Research Development Foundation 2
#11944 Stephen S. Kerr Certona 2
#11944 George J. Wajda 2
#11944 Ravi Komatireddy Smith & Nephew 2
#11944 Bradford R. Brown Intuit 2
#11944 Hsin-Hsing Liao Broadcom 2
#11944 Eran Eckstein Drip Irrigation Systems 2
#11944 Malic Bedford 2
#11944 Pravin Patil Morgan Stanley Services Group 2
#11944 Christopher Michael Barngrover The United States Of America, As Represented By Secretary Of The Navy 2
#11944 Zhouxin Shen Becton, Dickinson And 2
#11944 Spencer Hutchins Smith & Nephew 2
#11944 Hudson H. Freeze The Burnham Institute 2
#11944 Daniel Caruso Microsoft 2
#11944 Carl Edwards Space Micro 2
#11944 Usue ETXANIZ IRIGOIEN Avidity Biosciences 2
#11944 Dmitri Khijniak Kapsch Trafficcom Ag 2
#11944 Elizabeth Want Becton, Dickinson And 2
#11944 Michael Scott Obendorf Intuit 2
#11944 Vladislav Shimanskiy Qualcomm 2
#11944 Allyn Forsyth Gpb Scientific 2
#11944 Hyun Soo Lee Irm 2
#11944 Lintong Li Irm 2
#11944 Keith E. Ritchie Rohr 2
#11944 Robert Beken 2
#11944 Gary Robert Huckell The United States Of America, As Represented By Secretary Of The Navy 2
#11944 Kirk King Kadant Black Clawson 2
#11944 HongNgoc Thi Pham Novartis Ag 2
#11944 Jayson Smith Qualcomm 2
#11944 Reymundo Ortiz Fyfe Co. 2
#11944 Ricardo M. Dungca Fair Isaac 2
#11944 Dean Greenberg 2
#11944 Tyler ALBIN Avidity Biosciences 2
#11944 Curtis N. Torgerson 2
#11944 Sophie Liu Experian Information Solutions 2
#11944 Stuart Weinshanker 2
#11944 Simon Simmonds 2
#11944 Wesley van Rensburg 2
#11944 Jillian Basinger Thompson Dart Neuroscience 2
#11944 William Jasonn Torrez 2

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