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 Gamida For Life B.V., Sony, Arthrex. That works out to 169.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 12,901–12,950 of 23,606 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11944 Kenny Nguyen Gamida For Life B.V. 2
#11944 Vijayanand Muralidhar Kallianpur Sony 2
#11944 Kelvin Wiley 2
#11944 Robert Dean Tonks Arthrex 2
#11944 Aditi Singh Charter Communications Operating 2
#11944 Ciprian Manea Nokia 2
#11944 Ling Jie Stephanie Lee Bp Corporation North America 2
#11944 Mari Mortell Kwee Ent. Services Development Corporation Lp 2
#11944 Lawrence S. Mathews Salk Institute For Biological Studies 2
#11944 Harold Sandler Fluor Technologies 2
#11944 John Hausman General Instrument 2
#11944 Roshni Patel 2
#11944 Brenda F. Kahl Nanogen 2
#11944 Raymond Gamboa Hughes Network Systems 2
#11944 Peter C. Grossnickle US Air Force 2
#11944 Andre Mildh 2
#11944 Giri Anantharaman Packetvideo 2
#11944 Lael Pearce Qualcomm 2
#11944 Alice JIANG Gen-Probe Incorporated 2
#11944 Robert Silvetz Kosivana Holdings Limited 2
#11944 Alexandre V. Lehedev Genta Incorporated 2
#11944 Michael R. Cowgill Intuit 2
#11944 Wesley Hawkins University of California 2
#11944 Jeremy Davis-Turak 2
#11944 Jonathan M. Licht 2
#11944 Stephane Mailleau Trw Limited 2
#11944 Mohammed Ahmad Shammout 2
#11944 Nicholas A. Isley 2
#11944 Paul W. Primrose Qualcomm 2
#11944 Gregory Mark Marshall RTX (Raytheon) 2
#11944 Jodie Nelson Neurocrine Biosciences 2
#11944 Divya Sahu University Of Southern California 2
#11944 Tom Kenney Harris 2
#11944 Dean Rosenberg Supplypro 2
#11944 Jia Zhu Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 2
#11944 Binh Vong Firmenich Incorporated 2
#11944 Mylene A. Tjin Wong Joe HP 2
#11944 Jonathan K. Flaster 2
#11944 Bachar Adjan Solar Turbines Incorporated 2
#11944 Keith Stuart Sbarbaro Taylor Made Golf Company 2
#11944 Alexis Katherine Gregorich HP 2
#11944 Patrick Lyden Cedars Sinai Medical Center 2
#11944 Shilei Hao Qualcomm 2
#11944 Lars Plate Scripps Research 2
#11944 William B. Abrahams The Upper Deck 2
#11944 Vivian Anne Le Organovo 2
#11944 Scott D. Slade Encad 2
#11944 Jean DA SILVA CORREIA Anaptysbio 2
#11944 Andrew Orry 2
#11944 Polo Chun-Hung Lam 2

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