Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Sept 30, 2025
Home › Cities › California › San Diego, CA

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 Freeescale Semiconductor, Santarus, Dexcom. That works out to 169.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 11,751–11,800 of 23,606 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#9825 Sharon Shufelt — 3
#9825 Leticia Gomez Freeescale Semiconductor 3
#9825 Gerald Thomas PROEHL Santarus 3
#9825 Arpurv U. Kamath Dexcom 3
#9825 Shibin Parameswaran US Air Force 3
#9825 Johannes L. N. Laing — 3
#9825 Zhongning Liu Qualcomm 3
#9825 Srividya Akella ExxonMobil 3
#9825 Ouns Mouri Qualcomm 3
#9825 Ming Leung Qualcomm 3
#9825 Alberto Corbella Cognis Deutschland 3
#9825 Joel W. Ray H & M Innovations 3
#9825 David Philip Karlton Science Applications International 3
#9825 Rick Eis Nuvasive 3
#9825 James Robert Schmedake Eastman Kodak 3
#9825 Vishnusudhan Raghupathy Intel 3
#9825 Jon Peter Flash Bartnek Bp Corporation North America 3
#9825 Janice De Jesus University of California 3
#9825 Curtis Marsh Quidel 3
#9825 Matthew Minakais Cymer 3
#9825 Samantha Elizabeth Greasley Pfizer 3
#9825 Francisco GARCIA Element Biosciences 3
#9825 Kimberly Zargarian HP 3
#9825 Wong Foy Teledyne Industries 3
#9825 Edwin Brian Taylor Global Life Sciences Solutions Usa 3
#9825 Snezana Milutinovic — 3
#9825 Anthony Huy Nguyen The Boeing 3
#9825 Samantha Santo Servicenow 3
#9825 Kim S. Wise Codex Dna 3
#9825 Havens R. John Nanogen 3
#9825 Almira H. Niciu-Chiuaru Intuit 3
#9825 Eliezar Masliah Elan Pharmaceuticals 3
#9825 Jianghuai Xu Eli Lilly 3
#9825 Abdul Luke Gomez Unknown 3
#9825 Ziad Salem Quidel 3
#9825 Meng Lim Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 3
#9825 Debbie Liao Scripps Research 3
#9825 Keh-Shehn Lu Uniden San Diego Research & Development Center 3
#9825 Gregory A. Jaccard US Air Force 3
#9825 Angel Ezquerra-Moreu Texas Instruments 3
#9825 Gregory L. Hartmeier Nordson 3
#9825 Roger B. Trimble Cubic Western Data 3
#9825 Kirk D. Hanson Io-Mega Holding 3
#9825 Devon A. Thompson Takeda San Diego 3
#9825 William H. Roof Ameranth 3
#9825 Chetan Deepak Desai Intuit 3
#9825 Yinghong Gao Neurocrine Biosciences 3
#9825 Ashpak Salim Shaikh Intuit 3
#9825 Mickael Malabry — 3
#9825 Nikolaus P. W. Almassy Texas Instruments 3

Part of California

Other Cities in California

San Jose, CA289,949
San Francisco, CA225,019
Sunnyvale, CA118,568
Palo Alto, CA102,302
Mountain View, CA89,675
Fremont, CA78,732
Santa Clara, CA75,863
Cupertino, CA74,517
Los Angeles, CA61,348