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 Isis Pharmaceuticals, Illumina, Fair Isaac. That works out to 169.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 12,851–12,900 of 23,606 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11944 Ranjit R. Deshmukh Isis Pharmaceuticals 2
#11944 Vinod C. Mehta Illumina 2
#11944 Richard Calmbach Fair Isaac 2
#11944 Yonggang Shi Siemens Medical Solutions Usa 2
#11944 Arthur Kavanaugh AbbVie 2
#11944 David Dumas Atmel 2
#11944 Hezekiah R. Holland Esco Group 2
#11944 Homayun Ghassemi Easton Sports 2
#11944 Salil Deshpande 2
#11944 David Follette Ise 2
#11944 Gregory O. Jones Northrop Grumman 2
#11944 David Barker Apical Industries 2
#11944 Charles D. Surh Institute For Basic Science 2
#11944 David A. Humphreys General Atomics 2
#11944 Edward G. Tidemann, Jr. Qualcomm 2
#11944 James Maleski Solar Turbines Incorporated 2
#11944 Rajdeep Ganguly Qualcomm 2
#11944 Thomas Herbert Gilman 2
#11944 Khoi V. Nguyen 2
#11944 Chandra Sekhar Reddy Kaipa Epcos Ag 2
#11944 Andrey Vankov University of California 2
#11944 Seth Goldblum Evolva 2
#11944 Lief M. Hendrickson The United States Of America, As Represented By Secretary Of The Navy 2
#11944 James Kiang HP 2
#11944 Solange Lavielle CNRS 2
#11944 Caroline DiBattista Sotera Wireless 2
#11944 Kenton A. Younkin Qualcomm 2
#11944 Li-Chang Chen Polaris Group 2
#11944 Todd Campbell Qualcomm 2
#11944 Kenneth Ronald Rockwell Tektronix 2
#11944 David Maggs Amylin Pharmaceuticals 2
#11944 Isaac Marquez San Diego State University 2
#11944 Praveen Adusumilli Qualcomm 2
#11944 Stephen James Potter Qualcomm 2
#11944 Alan Joseph Senior HP 2
#11944 Wes Sisson Polaris Group 2
#11944 Richard Patrick Rementilla General Instrument 2
#11944 Yulin Ye Illumina 2
#11944 Jason Siebuhr 2
#11944 Jia Guo 2
#11944 Jay T. Flatley Illumina 2
#11944 Timothy Wesselman 2
#11944 Jason Char Intuit 2
#11944 Pallavi Wankhede 2
#11944 Wei-Jong Shia Polaris Group 2
#11944 Brenton Demko The Upper Deck 2
#11944 Setsuko Watanabe Blaszkowski Sony 2
#11944 David C. Whitacre 2
#11944 John David Reeder US Air Force 2
#11944 Lenny Fraitag Permlight Products 2

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