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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 Agouron Pharmaceuticals, Alcatel, Carefusion 303. That works out to 169.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 11,851–11,900 of 23,606 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#9825 Xinqiang Li Agouron Pharmaceuticals 3
#9825 Dante Cinco Alcatel 3
#9825 Crystal WOODWARD Carefusion 303 3
#9825 Sophie I. Coon Illumina 3
#9825 Tariq Al-Khasib Samsung 3
#9825 Marvin Waldman Accelrys 3
#9825 Marc Fernandez Omm 3
#9825 Katie Keller The Volcano 3
#9825 Christian M. Waldhelm Solar Turbines Incorporated 3
#9825 Roberta Gottlieb Scripps Research 3
#9825 Vitaliy Igorevich Lee Intuit 3
#9825 Hyma Gollamudi Fair Isaac 3
#9825 Kristen BALTGALVIS Rigel Pharmaceuticals 3
#9825 Fred R. Tietge Imagyn Medical 3
#9825 David B. Elting Oracle 3
#9825 Heming Xu Fair Isaac 3
#9825 Joshua Michael Stanley — 3
#9825 Brian Joon Chung Intuit 3
#9825 Jinjiang Zhu Agouron Pharmaceuticals 3
#9825 Mary Patricia Corr University of California 3
#9825 Jaerim Kim Taylor Made Golf Company 3
#9825 Kimberly Liu — 3
#9825 Marilyn Louise Thoman University Of Nebraska 3
#9825 Xiequn Xu — 3
#9825 Marla Metz Lyv Life 3
#9825 Marc Azar Qualcomm 3
#9825 Rajeev S. Kurundkar Qualcomm 3
#9825 Mark Huntley T-Systems International Gmbh 3
#9825 Thomas Hrabe Brain 3
#9825 Matthew Dedek — 3
#9825 Rob Andre Pecsar Bruin Biometrics 3
#9825 Amanda Reilly Kraft Foods Group Brands 3
#9825 Neelakandha Mani Ortho-Mcneil Pharmaceutical 3
#9825 Chennagiri Pandit Ortho-Mcneil Pharmaceutical 3
#9825 Sudhir CHOWDHRY — 3
#9825 Henry Ngo US Air Force 3
#9825 Shiu-Lan Chiang Tanabe Seiyaku Co. 3
#9825 Khirud Gogoi Am Chemicals 3
#9825 Geoff Kruse Tandem Diabetes Care 3
#9825 Chun-Ting Huang Qualcomm 3
#9825 Peter Yan-Guo Ren Quidel 3
#9825 David Wu Google 3
#9825 Terry C. Dawson Western Digital Technologies 3
#9825 Xiaoqing Cai Arizona Board Of Regents For And On Behalf Of Arizona State University 3
#9825 Shouqin Huo Roche Sequencing Solutions 3
#9825 Dan Sheik Arrowhead Madison 3
#9825 Erik Verhoef Tandem Diabetes Care 3
#9825 Phani Babu Giddi Qualcomm 3
#9825 Martin Fugére Novartis Ag 3
#9825 Douglas J. Cimins Thyssenkrupp Bilstein Of America 3

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