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, Amazon, Mitchell International. That works out to 169.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 13,251–13,300 of 23,606 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11944 Jeffrey Wilde 2
#11944 Taran Dhuppad Qualcomm 2
#11944 Dilip Venkateswaran Murali Qualcomm 2
#11944 Jack Rasgaitis Amazon 2
#11944 Niv Genchel Mitchell International 2
#11944 Arthur E. Munson US Air Force 2
#11944 Edwin A. Kruse 2
#11944 Alain G. Auras Alcon Laboratories 2
#11944 William K. Grefe Bae Systems Information And Electronic Systems Integration 2
#11944 Kevin Hertz 2
#11944 CHRIS GREVE 2
#11944 Kumar Raja Guvindan Raju Cymer 2
#11944 Thiyagarajan Selvam Qualcomm 2
#11944 Deane Gordon Johnson & Johnson 2
#11944 Vinay Rajkumar PATIL Qualcomm 2
#11944 Renato Cabanban Google 2
#11944 Ron Lawrence Octet Medical 2
#11944 Nick Baciu Arris Enterprises 2
#11944 Guillermo Alfredo Cornejo Integrated Dna Technologies 2
#11944 Kevin DESAI Encodia 2
#11944 Fernando Brizuela Asml Netherlands B.V. 2
#11944 Alexander Downn Kim Asml Netherlands B.V. 2
#11944 Guochun Li Novartis Ag 2
#11944 Preeti Javaji Teradata Us 2
#11944 Marcel MIAMPAMBA Avelas Biosciences 2
#11944 Natalie Yakos Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 2
#11944 Paul Buss 2
#11944 Irit Rappley Bristol-Myers Squibb 2
#11944 Joseph Irrgang Rohr 2
#11944 Sujan Shresta La Jolla Institute For Allergy And Immunology 2
#11944 Maria JOLLIFF Resmed 2
#11944 Dharm Veer Vid Scale 2
#11944 Krishna Chaitanya CHILLARA Qualcomm 2
#11944 Vince Van Donck Integra Lifesciences 2
#11944 Danielle Norris Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 2
#11944 Kim Thu Le Greenbaum Evolva Sa 2
#11944 Theodore G. Pavlopoulos US Air Force 2
#11944 Gan Yang Broadcom 2
#11944 Keith Woodword Cadence Design Systems 2
#11944 Daniel Kuehler HP 2
#11944 Brian Kwok-Leung Tsui Neustar 2
#11944 Srinivasa Prasad Vangaru Meta 2
#11944 Dustin Roberto Medimpact Healthcare Systems 2
#11944 Paul Bramer 2
#11944 Jerry E. Fox HP 2
#11944 Niranjan A. Shetty Fair Isaac 2
#11944 Daniel P. Naughton 2
#11944 Robert J. Hoey Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited 2
#11944 Dean McDaniel Systech 2
#11944 Vitek Zaba Astute Networks 2

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