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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 Thirdwayv, Qualcomm, Callaway Gold. That works out to 169.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 11,301–11,350 of 23,606 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#9825 Andrew Lentvorski Thirdwayv 3
#9825 George Pan Qualcomm 3
#9825 Richard Arnett Callaway Gold 3
#9825 Jose Gilberto Corleto Mena Qualcomm 3
#9825 Ian Kenneth Coolidge Aalyria Technologies 3
#9825 Isak Clark Reines Qualcomm 3
#9825 Andrei Danaila Qualcomm 3
#9825 Ian N. Robb — 3
#9825 Zheng Yan Chembridge 3
#9825 Craig Hewitt Pacesetter 3
#9825 Ethan Davis Texas Instruments 3
#9825 Dustin Anthony — 3
#9825 Bin Lam Unknown 3
#9825 Mina Iskander Qualcomm 3
#9825 Fredrik Kamme Ionis Pharmaceuticals 3
#9825 Darrell Lee Manchester Data Flow Systems 3
#9825 Neil W. Gibson Regulus Therapeutics 3
#9825 Krystyna Tatarkiewicz Amylin Pharmaceuticals 3
#9825 Bruce L. Trumbo 3Com 3
#9825 Leah Morta Edra Dexcom 3
#9825 Robert L. Burr Unknown 3
#9825 Amy Longshore United States Postal Service 3
#9825 David A. MacKichan — 3
#9825 Jadine N. Yee Qualcomm 3
#9825 Vincent B. Phan IBM 3
#9825 William Brady Medimmune Limited 3
#9825 Ritsuko Sawada-Hirai Billups-Rothenberg 3
#9825 Eugene Francis Kopecky — 3
#9825 Masoumeh Sadeghi Virewirx 3
#9825 Anthony R. Veca General Atomics 3
#9825 Hadi Parandeh Afshar Qualcomm 3
#9825 Dangyi Liu Tusimple 3
#9825 Debra Bevelaqua — 3
#9825 Sunil K.C. Avanir Pharmaceuticals 3
#9825 Rengaraj Thirupathi Qualcomm 3
#9825 Camille B. White Applera 3
#9825 Ying Su Xiamen University 3
#9825 Timur Gabdrakipov — 3
#9825 Erhard J. Schimitschek US Air Force 3
#9825 Matthew J. Barker — 3
#9825 Theodore B. Miller, III Danaher 3
#9825 Eric Paul Grasshoff — 3
#9825 John E. Celto US Air Force 3
#9825 Joaquin Romay — 3
#9825 Dan Kiel Novo Nordisk A/S 3
#9825 Steven M Krause HP 3
#9825 Garland Wong — 3
#9825 Courtney Moore Fenwal 3
#9825 Alexy Joseph Qualcomm 3
#9825 Nicholas Michael Stark Servicenow 3

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