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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 Qualcomm, University Of Southern Mississippi, Nordson. That works out to 169.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 11,801–11,850 of 23,606 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#9825 Ajay Vasanadu Qualcomm 3
#9825 Nikolay Mikhaylovich Shlyakhov Qualcomm 3
#9825 Alexander E. London University Of Southern Mississippi 3
#9825 Renzo Garcia — 3
#9825 Olaf Reinhold — 3
#9825 Raymond Andrew Merritt Nordson 3
#9825 Ann Monosov Anticancer 3
#9825 Joshua Bianchi US Air Force 3
#9825 Warren E. Schoettlin Stratagene 3
#9825 Robert L. Kaplan Hughes Aircraft 3
#9825 Dennis R. O'Keefe General Atomics 3
#9825 Adam Danial Yanalunas Servicenow 3
#9825 Judson D. Wetmore Raychem Limited 3
#9825 Siva Pavan Kumar Mitnala Qualcomm 3
#9825 Robert Gaede Carefusion 303 3
#9825 Min Chen Texas Instruments 3
#9825 Huong Dang Arena Pharmaceuticals 3
#9825 Russell Schnapp — 3
#9825 Bryan L. Croft US Air Force 3
#9825 Elizabeth Joyce Levy — 3
#9825 Keith E. Drouet Epizon Pharma 3
#9825 Sagar Shah Capital One Services 3
#9825 Thomas Edward Duncan — 3
#9825 Jose Barba Tdg Aerospace 3
#9825 Naiqian Zhan Illumina 3
#9825 Rick Henry Cabados — 3
#9825 Jon Boeing Rivian Ip Holdings 3
#9825 Alex Zyman — 3
#9825 Khawza Iftekhar-Uddin Ahmed Olympus 3
#9825 Christopher C. Adams Gen-Probe Incorporated 3
#9825 Daniel Hitman — 3
#9825 Matthew William Maybeno Soci 3
#9825 Giuseppe Di Mauro Viant Technology 3
#9825 Steve R. Bramwell Sonic Ip 3
#9825 Jill A. Schenk — 3
#9825 Lynn Collins Dixie Consumer Products 3
#9825 Jarred Moore Qualcomm 3
#9825 Christopher Yates Sony 3
#9825 Ly V. Tran International Engine Intellectual Property Company 3
#9825 Douglas C. Burstedt Hughes Aircraft 3
#9825 Fangming He Samsung 3
#9825 Gregory P. Stewart Texas Instruments 3
#9825 Randall T. Wasserman — 3
#9825 Anne P. Greer — 3
#9825 Glenn Canfield Burroughs 3
#9825 Alexis Nahama Vivasor 3
#9825 Nikolai Suslov Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited 3
#9825 Stephen Hall HP 3
#9825 Oren Danieli Intel 3
#9825 Amnon Altman La Jolla Institute For Allergy And Immunology 3

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