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IDiyas’s Digital Inventor Badge (DIB) showcases an inventor’s inventive prowess in granted patents across Utility, Design, and Plant patents. The data has been tracked since January 1, 1976, and refreshed each Tuesday. The data benchmarks an inventor’s prolificness to other inventors in their city, state, country, and the world. The badge reflects an inventor’s success in granted patents across their career.

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USPTO Data Jan 1 1976 - Sep 2 2025

4,157 Utility Patents

#1 in San Diego, CA

#1 in California

#1 in US

#3 in the World

San Diego, CA, United States of America

Tao Luo

Forward Citations = 5,396

Company Filing History:

4,099 out of 40,308

11 out of 831,952

Other

patents

3 out of 29,040

where one patent can have more than one assignee

Tao Luo of San Diego, CA, the third most prolific inventor in the world with 3,157 USPTO utility patents. He led the USPTO Patent leaderboard (provide link) in 2023 with 1042 patents and in 2022 with 508 patents. Since joining Qualcomm in 2004, he has invented thousands of patented technologies and worked on several cellular research projects that define the connected experience. He helped invent the technology that lets your phone find and connect to the cell tower with the best connection — now a crucial aspect of 5G.

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