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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, AMD, Broadcom. That works out to 169.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 11,901–11,950 of 23,606 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#9825 Mastan Manoj Kumar Amara Venkata Qualcomm 3
#9825 Prerit Dak AMD 3
#9825 Nazanin Darbanian Qualcomm 3
#9825 Terje Gloerstad Broadcom 3
#9825 Xiaohu Deng Ortho-Mcneil Pharmaceutical 3
#9825 Tom Vyse Ivac 3
#9825 Jeremy Intrator South 8 Technologies 3
#9825 Andrew Nichols AMD 3
#9825 Cooper S. Levy Intel 3
#9825 Lasantha Korala South 8 Technologies 3
#9825 Joshua Lobsinger Kyocera America 3
#9825 Cesar Clavell, Jr. US Air Force 3
#9825 Joshua David Ackerman Intuit 3
#9825 John Westerman Keysight Technologies 3
#9825 Daniel Ryan General Motors 3
#9825 Andrew Jay Effenberger, Jr. Battelle Energy Alliance 3
#9825 John P. Wier US Air Force 3
#9825 Mahyar Dadkah Cubic 3
#9825 Hubert G. Arrendale Lockheed Martin 3
#9825 Gregory Holst Illumina 3
#9825 Leonard J. Fox, III — 3
#9825 Michael W. Godwin US Air Force 3
#9825 Heng-Kit Too Kyocera Wireless 3
#9825 Michael Dominic Malcangio Servicenow 3
#9825 Shawn Clay Sanders Dexcom 3
#9825 Thomas Wood Huyck 3
#9825 Aditya Krishna Menon Microsoft 3
#9825 Raymond Michael Tofolo Taylor Made Golf Company 3
#9825 Matthew Smiley — 3
#9825 Rosalinda A. Wong Medtronic 3
#9825 Sangeetha Uthamalingam SANTHARAM Intuit 3
#9825 Anna PUSTILNIK — 3
#9825 Robert J. LaBonte Lydall 3
#9825 Rishi Bhatt — 3
#9825 Jörg HENDLE — 3
#9825 Denisa FOSTER — 3
#9825 Antonio Manzari Nissan Motor Co. 3
#9825 Yuto MASUDA Panasonic 3
#9825 Noah Post Arena Pharmaceuticals 3
#9825 Sujay Singh Research Development Foundation 3
#9825 Shawn Tsai Business Objects Software 3
#9825 Jose Edson Vargas Bautista Qualcomm 3
#9825 Jeffrey Rinne — 3
#11944 Fahua Gu — 2
#11944 Nick Pappas — 2
#11944 Tyler Watson — 2
#11944 Panchami Devashya Shivarama Qualcomm 2
#11944 Abbas Nourollahi Unknown 2
#11944 Matt Atlas Brain 2
#11944 Michael S. Slocum — 2

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