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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 Crown Equipment, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated, Kalypsys. That works out to 169.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 11,501–11,550 of 23,606 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#9825 Gerald P. Lamb Crown Equipment 3
#9825 Sanghee Yoo Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated 3
#9825 Paul Wash Kalypsys 3
#9825 Blake Denison Serono Genetics Institute S.A. 3
#9825 William J. Tsumpes — 3
#9825 William E. Swanson Gti Co. 3
#9825 Ed Sheldon Nanogen 3
#9825 Arjun Khare Qualcomm 3
#9825 Benjamin Walker Black Diamond Equipment 3
#9825 Ashish Malik Qualcomm 3
#9825 Guogang Hua Meta 3
#9825 William HARRIS — 3
#9825 Karl Daniel Wulcan Apple 3
#9825 Anita Difrancesco — 3
#9825 Allan Tram Entegris 3
#9825 Robert J. Nies — 3
#9825 Richard C. Mursinna Honeywell 3
#9825 Baranidharan Muthukumaran Qualcomm 3
#9825 Claudia Averbuj Technion Research & Development Foundation Limited 3
#9825 Chris Gielow Intuit 3
#9825 Shusil DANGI Qualcomm 3
#9825 Michael I. Dorrell Scripps Research 3
#9825 Daniel Whiting Servicenow 3
#9825 Xiao William Cheng Synaptics Incorporated 3
#9825 Xuexhe Zheng Oracle 3
#9825 Matthew Scott Tyler Resmed 3
#9825 Michal Henryk Borowiec Servicenow 3
#9825 Donald Weir Illinois Tool Works 3
#9825 Banani Medhi Intuit 3
#9825 Candace Johnson — 3
#9825 Karin Lehmann-Bruinsma Arena Pharmaceuticals 3
#9825 Linda F. Thompson Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation 3
#9825 Gabe SIMON Scripps Research 3
#9825 Cindy (Xin) Tian Broadcom 3
#9825 Angelica Linton Pfizer 3
#9825 Eric Taseski Qualcomm 3
#9825 Vicki Gurner Mitchell International 3
#9825 Laurenz Wiskott Eyematic Interfaces 3
#9825 Jeffrey Stack Aurora Biosciences 3
#9825 Andres Jesus Calderon, III Carefusion 303 3
#9825 Abdulrahman Baknina Samsung 3
#9825 Sachin B. Naker Carefusion 303 3
#9825 Handiono Santosa Sony 3
#9825 John Oesterle The Chamberlain Group 3
#9825 Hoke S. Trammell, III Quantum Magnetics 3
#9825 Clifford Stein — 3
#9825 Maya Natarajan Theravance 3
#9825 Alexander Boone — 3
#9825 Ying Chen Google 3
#9825 Tony Truong Qualcomm 3

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