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 Qualcomm, HP, University of California. That works out to 169.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 13,051–13,100 of 23,606 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11944 Viral Ranpara Qualcomm 2
#11944 Marisa Samoshin HP 2
#11944 Robert Malmstrom University of California 2
#11944 Nathan Godwin HP 2
#11944 Russ Mitchell Atlas Pacific Engineering 2
#11944 Charles R. Booth 2
#11944 Andrew Wurmser Signal Pharmaceuticals 2
#11944 Havard Scott Conexant Systems 2
#11944 Beatris Flores Biotronik Ag 2
#11944 Bing Tong Hamilton Sundstrand 2
#11944 Syed Rameez Mustafa Meta 2
#11944 Andrew J. Grazela Cp Kelco U.S. 2
#11944 Marc Mounir Rahme St. Jude Medical, Atrial Fibrillation Division 2
#11944 Alexander Ellington Carefusion 303 2
#11944 Seyed Mohammad Ehsan Hosseini Qualcomm 2
#11944 Wayne Ashley Jacobs 2
#11944 Robert D. Blevins Deep Oil Technology Incorporated 2
#11944 Lizhi Zheng Nokia 2
#11944 Pamela Duran University of California 2
#11944 John Anthony Rissone Servicenow 2
#11944 Anna Anatolyevna Vester Servicenow 2
#11944 Mark Wayne Baysinger Qualcomm 2
#11944 Max Kerber US Air Force 2
#11944 Seth C. Alexander University of California 2
#11944 Samy Mohamed Ismail Mohamed Intuit 2
#11944 John Pilkington Qualcomm 2
#11944 Yoshi Hirabayashi Sony 2
#11944 Barbara A. CLEMMONS-TRIGUEROS 2
#11944 Lauran Madden Organovo 2
#11944 Earl N. Waud Qualcomm 2
#11944 Tom Fleming 2
#11944 Christian Barrett University of California 2
#11944 Matthias Hundt 2
#11944 Jared Salbato Prometheus Laboratories 2
#11944 Anna Obraztsova The United States Of America, As Represented By Secretary Of The Navy 2
#11944 Andrew McDonald Servicenow 2
#11944 Nikhil Dvidedi Intuit 2
#11944 Todd Merrill Binder 2
#11944 Dung Tran Great Innovations 2
#11944 Maxim Abashin Pacific Biosciences Of California 2
#11944 Francis R. Go Becton, Dickinson And 2
#11944 Daniel Marcus Lombardo Accenture Global Solutions Limited 2
#11944 Laser Seymour Kaplan Accenture Global Solutions Limited 2
#11944 Eric Bosze Ctc Global 2
#11944 Betsy Luk Honda Motor Co. 2
#11944 Ali Eghbal 2
#11944 Deep BHATIA Qualcomm 2
#11944 Rengarajan RAGAVAN Qualcomm 2
#11944 Andrew Schultz Synthetic Genomics 2
#11944 Jason A. Everett Astellas Pharma 2

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