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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 Northrop Grumman, Everyone Counts, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. That works out to 169.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 11,351–11,400 of 23,606 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#9825 Trung H. Lam Northrop Grumman 3
#9825 Craig Harold Reines Everyone Counts 3
#9825 Weichuan Caroline Chen Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated 3
#9825 William S. Anapoell Unknown 3
#9825 Hugh Michael O'Brien, IV Kiribati Wireless Ventures 3
#9825 Longyin Wei Broadcom 3
#9825 Preeti Sivakumar Qualcomm 3
#9825 Kirk Beitz — 3
#9825 Emily Jane Sackett Unknown 3
#9825 James F. LeStage Securus 3
#9825 Werner Pyka Kiribati Wireless Ventures 3
#9825 Himanshu Dutta Qualcomm 3
#9825 Eric J. Coolbaugh The United States Of America, As Represented By Secretary Of The Navy 3
#9825 Lockburn S. Shaw US Air Force 3
#9825 Andrew Morse Braincells 3
#9825 Debbie K. Chen — 3
#9825 John E. Burgeson General Dynamics 3
#9825 Mark Ojeda Nuvasive 3
#9825 Cristina Pop Basf Se 3
#9825 Elizabeth Cohen-Diederiksen — 3
#9825 Samuel N. Conjerti US Air Force 3
#9825 Shing T. Li US Air Force 3
#9825 Pedro Cabrales Albert Einstein College Of Medicine Of Yeshiva University 3
#9825 Christopher L. Dupont J. Craig Venter Institute 3
#9825 Robert Herbert Cubic 3
#9825 Weilan Wang Misonimo Chi Acquisition L.L.C. 3
#9825 Alexey Zenovich Servicenow 3
#9825 Aditya Arun Honeywell 3
#9825 Guofei Wu General Instrument 3
#9825 Yingjie Zhou Huawei 3
#9825 Daniel J. Woodard Rapid Bridge 3
#9825 Chunting Chris Mi Hefei Gotion High-Tech Power Energy Co. 3
#9825 Trevor Jaye Lummus Technology 3
#9825 Sean Mallory — 3
#9825 David Kruse — 3
#9825 Per Cederstav — 3
#9825 Ravishankar Piramanayagam Hcl Technologies Limited 3
#9825 Linda Lampman Sony 3
#9825 Steve Lukas Iris Tech 3
#9825 Steven E. Bradley Rowe-Deines Instruments 3
#9825 Mohammad Ali Mockarram-Dorri Nokia Technologies Oy 3
#9825 Brent Bahry Servicenow 3
#9825 Marie M. Bjerede Qualcomm 3
#9825 Divya Gangadharan Qualcomm 3
#9825 James Kappes Inseego 3
#9825 Eric S. Muckley Ut-Battelle 3
#9825 Anthony Thomas Intel 3
#9825 Michael Krasovic Nuvasive 3
#9825 Jialun Meng Molecular Biosystems 3
#9825 Daniel Tai Yung Leung US Air Force 3

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