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 General Atomics, Molecular Biosystems, Qualcomm. That works out to 169.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 13,301–13,350 of 23,606 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11944 Raymond L. Gordon 2
#11944 Robert C. Noren General Atomics 2
#11944 Donna Marie Barr 2
#11944 Peter J. Westkaemper Molecular Biosystems 2
#11944 Mikhail A. Lushin (Misha) Qualcomm 2
#11944 {hacek over (Z)}eljko D{hacek over (z)}akula Bionano Genomics 2
#11944 Mahmoud Abdelgelil Interdigital Patent Holdings 2
#11944 Rina Diana Fong 2
#11944 Anthony Hong Biosense Webster (Israel) 2
#11944 Eric Pilmore Cray Research 2
#11944 Max Totrov Bipar Sciences 2
#11944 Sherwin S. Chan The Children'S Mercy Hospital 2
#11944 FengGang Wu Pathway Innovations And Technologies 2
#11944 Olav Kok Systech 2
#11944 Joshua Pelz University of California 2
#11944 Christopher Lawson Fletcher US Air Force 2
#11944 Donna Collins Philips Image Guided Therapy 2
#11944 Nicholas Charles Stroumtsos US Air Force 2
#11944 Luca De Vivo University of California 2
#11944 Pedro Aza-Blanc Irm 2
#11944 Christopher Todd Wente Indyme Solutions 2
#11944 Jan Buncher Sony 2
#11944 Herbert J. Barrack University of California 2
#11944 Christopher Savage Acushnet 2
#11944 Lindsey J. Bowman Salk Institute For Biological Studies 2
#11944 Michael Oren Ferguson US Air Force 2
#11944 Kathryn A. Grako Medipal Holdings 2
#11944 Kristin M. DeFife Medipal Holdings 2
#11944 Paul Kiankhooy-Fard 2
#11944 Sabine ROTTMANN Novartis Ag 2
#11944 Tracy Charlton Novartis Ag 2
#11944 Frederick I. Tsuji Nec Soft 2
#11944 Margherita Capriotti Mayo Foundation 2
#11944 Joel Gerendash Verenium 2
#11944 Christopher Barback University of California 2
#11944 John Martinez Carefusion 303 2
#11944 Alexander Liberman University of California 2
#11944 Stuart Melville 2
#11944 Mehrdad Mark Mofid 2
#11944 George C. Rutt 2
#11944 Shubhankar Mangesh BORSE Qualcomm 2
#11944 Dwane F. Sample US Air Force 2
#11944 Mark A. Verdecia Salk Institute For Biological Studies 2
#11944 Mike Kiefer Divx 2
#11944 Jason J. Sun Quidel 2
#11944 Ajay MADAN Crinetics Pharmaceuticals 2
#11944 Sam Filiciotto 2
#11944 Shahin Enayati 2
#11944 Naveen Kumar V. Bonda Qualcomm 2
#11944 Jeff Taarud Texas Instruments 2

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