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San Diego, CA All Time

235,197 patents  ·  23,606 inventors  ·  169.6/1k pop.

Ranked #13 of 111,555 cities Top 1%

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 General Dynamics Corporation, Convair Division, Daylight Solutions, Leidos. That works out to 169.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 10,951–11,000 of 23,606 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#9825 Gustav D. Magnuson General Dynamics Corporation, Convair Division 3
#9825 Michael Vernon Henson Daylight Solutions 3
#9825 Mark Alan Peressini Leidos 3
#9825 Raymond C. Valli Cp Kelco U.S. 3
#9825 Suzanne Rohrback Illumina 3
#9825 Yang Lee Polaris Group 3
#9825 Seymour Calvert — 3
#9825 Kweon Yu Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute Of Science And Technology 3
#9825 Leonard Pool — 3
#9825 Natalia Manea Sony 3
#9825 Kalyanaraman Ramnarayan Texas Biotechnology 3
#9825 Shawn McCarty Essilor International (Compagnie Generale D'Optique) 3
#9825 Phil Alper Irm 3
#9825 Vic MARKARIAN — 3
#9825 Amy S. Berman — 3
#9825 Hans S. Croteau — 3
#9825 Katherine S. Lam Orvance 3
#9825 Rodger Christin Smith — 3
#9825 Urvi Patel Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated 3
#9825 Duk Kim Axesstel 3
#9825 Daniel Castell Martinez Alstom Wind S.L.U. 3
#9825 Siddharth Shetye — 3
#9825 Jeff Colton Ioxus 3
#9825 Charles L. McClendon Jabra 3
#9825 Timothy T. Grady Eastman Kodak 3
#9825 Weijie Lan Fate Therapeutics 3
#9825 John Hayfield Cryogen 3
#9825 Kevin CHEN Sas Institute 3
#9825 Nicolaus Lance Hepler 10X Genomics 3
#9825 Evan Misuraca — 3
#9825 Bryan P. Kent Carvana 3
#9825 Gianluca Roma Gen-Probe Incorporated 3
#9825 James H. Esker Chromium Graphics 3
#9825 Anthony Vaiciulis Fair Isaac 3
#9825 Kenneth K. Vu Applied Medical Resources 3
#9825 Hongyuan Helen Mao Scripps Research 3
#9825 Anu Koberg Qualcomm 3
#9825 Courtney L. Koberg Qualcomm 3
#9825 Bryan S. Ly HP 3
#9825 Robert Niedringhaus Renfro — 3
#9825 Darren Mark Teren — 3
#9825 Szu-hsuan Lee Servicenow 3
#9825 Oswald Quehenberger University of California 3
#9825 Stephen Wall IBM 3
#9825 Harold Gilkey Qualcomm 3
#9825 Zhurang Zhao Qualcomm 3
#9825 Jennifer Meek Vical Incorporated 3
#9825 Nurit Yehushua Infrasonics 3
#9825 David B. Doan Ivac 3
#9825 Matthew Richard Johnson — 3

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