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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 Apex Medical Technologies, Qualcomm, University of California. That works out to 169.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 11,101–11,150 of 23,606 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#9825 Alice A. DePaul Apex Medical Technologies 3
#9825 Miguel MIRANDA CORBALAN Qualcomm 3
#9825 Anthony M. Rush University of California 3
#9825 Joshua Giberson Manscaped 3
#9825 Ralph Keeling University of California 3
#9825 Philip A. Levinson Hybritech Incorporated 3
#9825 George O. Pickens US Air Force 3
#9825 Manini Shah Qualcomm 3
#9825 Carleton E. Yee Boston Scientific Scimed 3
#9825 William D. Brentnall Solar Turbines Incorporated 3
#9825 Glenn A. Murphy Qualcomm 3
#9825 Kristofor B. Gibson US Air Force 3
#9825 Beth A. Rasala University of California 3
#9825 Scott Michael Carter Oracle 3
#9825 Kathleen Wilson Huawei 3
#9825 Sanjay Madhavarao Byton Limited 3
#9825 Shannon Marie Karlicek Amgen 3
#9825 Fatima El-Farrah Verenium 3
#9825 Marcia Beth Allen — 3
#9825 Karin Kristina Amundson Amgen 3
#9825 Nikolay Bomshtein Qualcomm 3
#9825 Raphael Mall Phy Wireless 3
#9825 Donald L. Endicott, Jr. US Air Force 3
#9825 Rob Baranowski Neuroem Therapeutics 3
#9825 Ali RostamPisheh Qualcomm 3
#9825 Blake Alan Rowe Sibia Neurosciences 3
#9825 Paul J. Digregorio Calcimedica 3
#9825 Raffaella Fior HP 3
#9825 Muralidhar Coimbatore Krishnamoorthy Qualcomm 3
#9825 Gautam SACHDEVA Qualcomm 3
#9825 Jorge Miguel Gomez Lucia HP 3
#9825 Semyon Nodelman Phase Metrics 3
#9825 Suyash Ranjan NVIDIA 3
#9825 Timothy Kil Icu Medical 3
#9825 Julius Tobias Icu Medical 3
#9825 Hongkai YU Tusimple 3
#9825 Ravindranath Singamneni Broadcom 3
#9825 Richard Steven Wahlin Taylor Made Golf Company 3
#9825 Daniel Rogers Bayer Healthcare 3
#9825 Peter Graeme CLARKE Qualcomm 3
#9825 Kristin P. Ollis Cytovia 3
#9825 Jody Polk Icu Medical 3
#9825 R. Jason Char Intuit 3
#9825 Farooq A. Anjum Groguru 3
#9825 Paul Chiba Buck Knives 3
#9825 Donald John Patrick O'Neil Microsoft 3
#9825 Dana Peterson — 3
#9825 Yihe YAO Qualcomm 3
#9825 Angelica Dahmen Rohr 3
#9825 Grant Hogg Sequenom 3

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