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 Intuit, Qualcomm, Veridex. That works out to 169.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 13,001–13,050 of 23,606 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11944 Brent Rambo Intuit 2
#11944 Lakshmi Narayana Macha Qualcomm 2
#11944 Mitch Raponi Veridex 2
#11944 Zhibei Ma Tusimple 2
#11944 Kevin Slatnick Aira 2
#11944 David Boucher 2
#11944 Michael John Boyden Unknown 2
#11944 Charles Haberstroh 2
#11944 Donald N. Williams US Air Force 2
#11944 Terry Sharpe Rolls-Royce Canada Limited 2
#11944 Carlos Bouloy Teradata Us 2
#11944 Raymond R. Schleef Philip Morris Usa 2
#11944 Mitchell Huxhold Decopac 2
#11944 Sarah Needham Confident Technologies 2
#11944 Lynde J. Nottebaum Syngenta Participations Ag 2
#11944 Daniel Timothy Gavin Rf Magic 2
#11944 Charles Speidel 2
#11944 Anand Kolatkar Epic Sciences 2
#11944 Catherine Cacheris Intuit 2
#11944 Michael Gregory Keehan Illumina 2
#11944 Shu Yu Agouron Pharmaceuticals 2
#11944 Anton Mario Lucchin Thermo Fisher 2
#11944 Walter Thompson Compass Therapeutics 2
#11944 Sandra Reboucas 2
#11944 Pejman Soroosh Johnson & Johnson 2
#11944 Ryan M. Fritzsche 2
#11944 Kevin A Merrill HP 2
#11944 Aracely Williams Qualcomm 2
#11944 Scott W. Mader 2
#11944 Yuelie Lu Alexion Pharmaceuticals 2
#11944 Kelly M. Powers 2
#11944 W. Frank Peacock 2
#11944 Peter Sobczak HP 2
#11944 Curtis C. Hecht Lion Bioscience Ag 2
#11944 Robert G. Andrews The Upper Deck 2
#11944 Ingemar Pedron Qiagen Sciences 2
#11944 Weichuan Yao Apple 2
#11944 Amila Chinthaka Suriarachchi Servicenow 2
#11944 Chiyu Liu Cisco 2
#11944 Theresa Ann Clements Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 2
#11944 Erin Garcia Illumina 2
#11944 Akshaya Muralidharan Juniper Networks 2
#11944 Avantika Sodhi Qualcomm 2
#11944 Hiren Bhagatwala Qualcomm 2
#11944 Hyoen-Mu Yoo HP 2
#11944 George D. Celmo Medical Device Holding Company 2
#11944 Samuel SUNARJO Qualcomm 2
#11944 Michael Kritzer Group B Labs 2
#11944 Joel Kopelioff Intuit 2
#11944 Xiaozhou Fu Ansys 2

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