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 Kyocera America, Qualcomm, Unknown. That works out to 169.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 13,501–13,550 of 23,606 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11944 Kye Miranda 2
#11944 Jeffrey Venegas Kyocera America 2
#11944 Giovanni MARUCCI Qualcomm 2
#11944 Warner Bonner Unknown 2
#11944 Lester Forare Puritan-Bennett 2
#11944 Frank M. Dettmers, Sr. Solar Turbines Incorporated 2
#11944 Isan DOSHI Qualcomm 2
#11944 Daniel Leslie Hall Asml Holding N.V. 2
#11944 Desmond Mailey Solar Turbines Incorporated 2
#11944 David G. Teraji Solar Turbines Incorporated 2
#11944 Curtis L. Stevens Solar Turbines Incorporated 2
#11944 Christina Goheen 2
#11944 Rehana Rahiman Teradata Us 2
#11944 Amy Tresa Miller Kyocera Wireless 2
#11944 Jibu Joseph Siemens Aktiengesellschaft 2
#11944 Karim Alami 2
#11944 Marc Barron 2
#11944 Glenn A. Reph 2
#11944 Wendy F. Hunter HP 2
#11944 John C. Siegman Guidewire Software 2
#11944 Sheldon Smilo Bridgestone 2
#11944 Nicholas Brideau 2
#11944 Chunyan Lin US Air Force 2
#11944 Harsimran S. Badwal Intuit 2
#11944 Matthew Aaron Farr Rohr 2
#11944 Bruno Paladini Miranda 2
#11944 Vladimir Zlotopolski 2
#11944 Ion Niciu-Chiuaru Intuit 2
#11944 Isaac Calderon 2
#11944 Jenny (Guofeng) Zhang Fair Isaac 2
#11944 James Dragescu Ford 2
#11944 Alfred Sundquist Biosite 2
#11944 Laura Rassenti University of California 2
#11944 Daniel Alejandro Olmos Qualcomm 2
#11944 Steve Lamon Danaher 2
#11944 Rey Sarabia Danaher 2
#11944 Mike Gaughan Danaher 2
#11944 Hugh Eugene Murray, IV 2
#11944 Christopher T. Leber 2
#11944 Ronald G. Patterson Calvert Environmental 2
#11944 Oskar Hammer Kirsten Kiribati Wireless Ventures 2
#11944 Vinesh Kisan Kaviskar Qualcomm 2
#11944 Tarek Zghal Qualcomm 2
#11944 Andreas Kreusch Irm 2
#11944 Supun Chathuranga Nakandala Databricks 2
#11944 Karthik Karunakar Kotian Servicenow 2
#11944 Luke E. Hanna Johnson & Johnson 2
#11944 Leanne Chukoskie University of California 2
#11944 David Schmoyer 2
#11944 Galina Laur Continental Controls 2

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