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, Nse Products, Novatel Wireless. That works out to 169.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 13,351–13,400 of 23,606 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11944 Piraphakar Mahalingam 2
#11944 Yibing Qyang University of California 2
#11944 Marshall Merrifield 2
#11944 Jai-Shi Zhu Nse Products 2
#11944 Erika Duggan 2
#11944 ChengChang Huang Novatel Wireless 2
#11944 Ethan M. Idenmill Qualcomm 2
#11944 Christian Weyer Amylin Pharmaceuticals 2
#11944 Dover Janis 2
#11944 Enrique Alvarez-Fontecilla University of California 2
#11944 Flavio De Angelis Apple 2
#11944 Thomas Herbert Ramsthaler Broadcom 2
#11944 Yoshikazu Gi MIKAWA Fuso Pharmaceutical Industries 2
#11944 Vladimir Y. Matveyev US Air Force 2
#11944 Leslie Caroline Drogo HP 2
#11944 Phil Mages Nokia 2
#11944 Hadley O. Johnson Orbital Insight 2
#11944 Benjamin W. Keeton Enerpac Tool Group 2
#11944 Matthew Wimmer Google 2
#11944 John A. Dryden Intuit 2
#11944 Mathew Yanik Intercept Pharmaceuticals 2
#11944 Jianqianq Yu University of California 2
#11944 Jill Hallin Mirati Therapeutics 2
#11944 Rachel L. Evans Intuit 2
#11944 Michael Paul Myers Icu Medical 2
#11944 Rachel McAuley-Aoki Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated 2
#11944 Amy Vavrunek 2
#11944 Sergey Murashov Qualcomm 2
#11944 Srikanth Uppala Broadcom 2
#11944 Silvia Gravina Illumina 2
#11944 Don Bambico Walmart Apollo 2
#11944 Rick D. Bohlman 2
#11944 Stephen Matthew Sjoberg 2
#11944 Guy Nimrodi Nuvasive 2
#11944 Walter J. Heim Rohr 2
#11944 Tammy L. Lane Hamilton Sundstrand 2
#11944 Doug Foiles Intuit 2
#11944 Michael Borowiec Servicenow 2
#11944 Daniel Cascais Servicenow 2
#11944 Daniel Sackinger Brain 2
#11944 Ernie Arquero Abdon 2
#11944 Patricia L. Paris Cpg Products 2
#11944 Seth Wallack 2
#11944 Vamsi Sata Microsoft 2
#11944 Dayu TENG 2
#11944 Antti Myllykoski Sony 2
#11944 Steven Lombardi Artemide S.P.A. 2
#11944 Danielle CUSUMANO Basf Enzymes 2
#11944 Antonio Ye Servicenow 2
#11944 Ravindra Kulkarni Intuit 2

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