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

Showing 13,101–13,150 of 23,606 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11944 Miroslav Krstic University of California 2
#11944 Padmanabhan Ramakrishnan Qualcomm 2
#11944 Yi LI Kneron 2
#11944 Lehel Jozsef Lendvay 2
#11944 Kyly Gabriel Vass Servicenow 2
#11944 Kevin S. Richardson Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics 2
#11944 Mostafa Azab Sequenom 2
#11944 Jude Ian McQuaid Servicenow 2
#11944 Marty Shannon Bosu Fitness 2
#11944 Kim Phuong Tran Microtune (San Diego) 2
#11944 Imraan AHMED 2
#11944 Byung-Taek Lee Via Telecom 2
#11944 Eric Lunzer Qualcomm 2
#11944 Pablito Arriola De La Rosa 2
#11944 Prasad Shamain Conexant Systems 2
#11944 Leslie A. Gomez Johnson & Johnson 2
#11944 Ruchi Parekh Qualcomm 2
#11944 Siddharth Chhokar ExxonMobil 2
#11944 Yogen N. Deshpande Qualcomm 2
#11944 Alexander Corvino Servicenow 2
#11944 Jeffrey R. Hammaker Firmenich Incorporated 2
#11944 Nicole Gonsalves Firmenich Incorporated 2
#11944 Andrew Kian Samii Servicenow 2
#11944 Shashi R. Shilarnav Intuit 2
#11944 Dat Tien Pham Qualcomm 2
#11944 Tanya Ditschun Firmenich Incorporated 2
#11944 J. Robert Richard Sports Products Consultants 2
#11944 Matthew L. Del Bel Pfizer 2
#11944 Rakesh Nattoji Rajaram Qualcomm 2
#11944 Douglas G. Lahti Philips Image Guided Therapy 2
#11944 Paul (Plamen) Arssov 2
#11944 Jennifer Nominati Synthetic Genomics 2
#11944 Alexandre CHARAPOV 2
#11944 Brian Paul Cluggish Archimedes Technology Group 2
#11944 James Hohn Zodiac Pool Systems 2
#11944 Rebecca Anne Gallego Pfizer 2
#11944 Xiaohui Yuan 2
#11944 Santiago Garcia Reyero HP 2
#11944 Kevin Gemmell Canary Medical Switzerland Ag 2
#11944 Ankur JALOTA Qualcomm 2
#11944 Xiaopeng ZHONG Qualcomm 2
#11944 Sunmin Ahn Illumina 2
#11944 Rakshith Sundareshan Qualcomm 2
#11944 Brandon Evers Atlas Pacific Engineering 2
#11944 Ravikumar Palakodety Qualcomm 2
#11944 Connor J. Galleher Genomatica 2
#11944 Nicolas Bouyounes 2
#11944 Forrest M. Henderson Rain Bird 2
#11944 Shu-ichi Okamoto Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute 2
#11944 Zachery Smith Fyfe Co. 2

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