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, Harrow Ip, Nuvasive. That works out to 169.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 13,551–13,600 of 23,606 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11944 Amrit KHAREL Qualcomm 2
#11944 John P. Saharek Harrow Ip 2
#11944 Pat Miles Nuvasive 2
#11944 Diane Iannuzzi 2
#11944 Cameron Michael Joyce WIRTZ 2
#11944 Margaret Parker 2
#11944 Walker R. Force Kirin Beer Kabushiki Kaisha 2
#11944 Scott Bennett IBM 2
#11944 Kim Healy 2
#11944 Dale Karr University of Michigan 2
#11944 Sean O'Hare AT&T 2
#11944 Alice Lee Ortho-Mcneil Pharmaceutical 2
#11944 Benedicto delos Santos 2
#11944 Ruben Recasens Oros HP 2
#11944 Antara Banerjee Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited 2
#11944 Peter Jan Pistek Oracle 2
#11944 Catherine B. Hunt E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 2
#11944 Howard Dittrich Molecular Biosystems 2
#11944 David C. Ciccone Unknown 2
#11944 Sergey A. Shiryaev Yandex Europe Ag 2
#11944 Doug Brems Kyocera Wireless 2
#11944 Jeffrey Alan Ehrman Daybreak Game Company 2
#11944 Anibal-Jose Rivero Starguide Digital Network 2
#11944 Peter H. Malay 2
#11944 Doraiswamy Ramesh Cornell Research Foundation 2
#11944 Timothy A. Girvin Nordson 2
#11944 Ronald D. Lewis, II Corvas International 2
#11944 Richard K. Ferlito Advanced Monitors 2
#11944 Ronald C. Davis University Of Georgia 2
#11944 Vincent Demarco 2
#11944 Selvaraj Jaikumar Qualcomm 2
#11944 Stephen A. Blake Comstream 2
#11944 Matthew Joseph Joyce WIRTZ 2
#11944 Bernie Jord Yang Qualcomm 2
#11944 Sharon Aline JOYCE 2
#11944 Vahid DABBAGH REZAEI Qualcomm 2
#11944 Kacey Sachen Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited 2
#11944 Edvin R. Perez 2
#11944 Bernard Snyder 2
#11944 Reza Kakoee Meta 2
#11944 Jean Pierre Lapeyre Acterna 2
#11944 Chad Alan Prey Ntrepid 2
#11944 Kenneth H. Hall 2
#11944 James A. Dromgoole 2
#11944 Curtis Robert Lubben 2
#11944 D. J. Geiger Nuvasive 2
#11944 Bradley T. Fiechtner Dover Associates 2
#11944 Neal Lowell Audatex North America 2
#11944 Bob Evatt Costar Group 2
#11944 Xuong Nguyen-Huu University of California 2

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