Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

South San Francisco, CA ranks #373 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 8,464 patents from 1,066 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in South San Francisco, CA include Array Biopharma, Incyte, Genentech. That works out to 128.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,066 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Joseph P. Lyssikatos Array Biopharma 139
2 Brian W. Metcalf Incyte 122
3 Mark S. Dennis Genentech 99
#4 Alain P. Vasserot Atyr Pharma 96
#5 Bradley P. Morgan Cytokinetics 95
#6 Lin Luo IBM 94
#7 Steven N. Roe Roche Diagnostics Operations 92
#8 Esteban Masuda Rigel Pharmaceuticals 84
#9 Martin S. Linsell Theravance 82
#10 Lionel Vedrine Becton, Dickinson And 78
#11 Bruce D. Roth Warner-Lambert Company 76
#12 Julio C. Medina Amgen 74
#13 David Juergen Wustrow Warner-Lambert Company 72
#14 Jun Liang Genentech 63
#15 Pu-Ping Lu Cytokinetics 60
#15 Qin Li Aliphcom 60
#17 Ihab Darwish Rigel Pharmaceuticals 57
#17 Michael Patrick Dillon Roche Palo Alto 57
#17 Yan Chen Rigel Pharmaceuticals 57
#20 Daniel P. Sutherlin Genentech 55
#21 Peter Dragovich Genentech 54
#22 Barbara Patterson Visa 52
#22 Keelung Hong Taiwan Liposome Co. 52
#24 Jurg R. Pfister Syntex (U.S.A.) 51
#24 Jack Liang Codexis 51
#26 Pingyu Ding Rigel Pharmaceuticals 50
#27 Edmund J. Moran Theravance 48
#27 Cyrus K. BECKER Corsair Pharma 48
#29 James Sutton Novartis Ag 47
#29 Ignacio Solis Cisco 47
#29 Brian Safina Genentech 47
#29 Jonathan Vroom Codexis 47
#33 Guido Radaelli Lummus Technology 46
#34 Chihyuan Chuang Cytokinetics 45
#35 Ying-Zi Xu Elan Pharmaceuticals 44
#35 Nathaniel David Unity Biotechnology 44
#35 Alex Muci Cytokinetics 44
#35 Steven R. Magnuson Genentech 44
#35 Peter Gefter Illinois Tool Works 44
#40 Germaine Fuh Genentech 43
#40 Kathleen Cogan Farinas Forsight Vision4 43
#42 Simon Shaw Rigel Pharmaceuticals 42
#42 BinQing Wei Genentech 42
#44 Sandeep Yadav Netapp 41
#44 Nancy E. Stagliano Cytomx Therapeutics 41
#44 Paul Nagel Kinestral Technologies 41
#47 Mukund Patel Medtronic 40
#47 Francis Gosselin Genentech 40
#47 Meenakshi S. Venkatraman Corsair Pharma 40
#50 Andreas W. Schirmer Genomatica 39

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