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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 US Air Force, Unknown, Scripps Research. That works out to 169.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 11,451–11,500 of 23,606 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#9825 Douglas S. Hulbert US Air Force 3
#9825 Philip Oh Unknown 3
#9825 Nicholas T. Jacob Scripps Research 3
#9825 Jason Greenbaum La Jolla Institute For Allergy And Immunology 3
#9825 Zbigniew S. Piec General Atomics 3
#9825 Joseph C. Spitzer — 3
#9825 Davis Smith Phoenix Environmental 3
#9825 Zdravko Milanov Ambit Biosciences 3
#9825 Shamal Mehta Ambit Biosciences 3
#9825 Mary Matyskiela Bristol-Myers Squibb 3
#9825 Mark Speros — 3
#9825 Xuanning Gao Qualcomm 3
#9825 Stephen P. Schoenberger Keygene N.V. 3
#9825 Amber Hillius Gen-Probe Incorporated 3
#9825 Greg Gangitano Sony 3
#9825 Sara Lighthall Infantino 3
#9825 Lars Taubert Nissan Motor Co. 3
#9825 Timothy J. Tiel Bushnell 3
#9825 Jeremy Michael Charfauros Servicenow 3
#9825 Justin Kane Daylight Solutions 3
#9825 Ayyappan Ravichandran Qualcomm 3
#9825 Sucheta Kumar Harish Qualcomm 3
#9825 Hongwen Lu Applied Micro Circuits 3
#9825 James McCafferty — 3
#9825 Avinash Manda Qualcomm 3
#9825 Richard LaPointe Pro Performance Sports 3
#9825 Robert A. Olstad General Atomics 3
#9825 R. Lee Gordon — 3
#9825 Eugene Bolotin Illumina 3
#9825 Bohan Yan Qualcomm 3
#9825 Lizhong Wu Sas Institute 3
#9825 Robert C. Schikner GE 3
#9825 Frank Scarpaci American Express 3
#9825 Charles Spencer Nichols Quantinuum 3
#9825 Eldridge Briscoe US Air Force 3
#9825 Juan Manuel Ocampo — 3
#9825 Liang Song Bp Corporation North America 3
#9825 James M. Walton US Air Force 3
#9825 Duane William Zugel Kapro Industries 3
#9825 Rene Huvar Ortho-Mcneil Pharmaceutical 3
#9825 Pam Cheng Illumina 3
#9825 Kathleen J. Grace — 3
#9825 Devang Narendra Bhatt Qualcomm 3
#9825 Behzad Moeenziai Remec Broadband Wireless Holdings 3
#9825 Frederick J. Hill Solar Turbines Incorporated 3
#9825 Ken Kuang — 3
#9825 Ericca Lynne Speed Rasirc 3
#9825 Andrey Ermolinskiy Qualcomm 3
#9825 Jeffrey A. Stokes Fike 3
#9825 Charles B. Parme Sundstrand 3

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