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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 Illumina, University of California, Ciba-Geigy. That works out to 169.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 12,251–12,300 of 23,606 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11944 Justin Fullerton Illumina 2
#11944 Danyong Dylan Lu University of California 2
#11944 Gary Clauson Ciba-Geigy 2
#11944 Darryl Vidal — 2
#11944 Alan D. Adamson Tt Systems 2
#11944 Prescott Walmsley Eaton-Vorad Technologies, L.L.C. 2
#11944 Venkat Ramanan Venkatachalam Jayaraman Netradyne 2
#11944 Frank Thomas Spinos — 2
#11944 Behrouz Babakhani Airgain 2
#11944 Michelle C. Murrett Oracle 2
#11944 Phillip Dixon Cubic 2
#11944 Bernadette Alexandra Mora Intuit 2
#11944 Long-Shiuh Chen Medinox,Inc. 2
#11944 Ali Asadi Illumina 2
#11944 Matthew Karl Drake Netradyne 2
#11944 Mira Sastri University of California 2
#11944 Mark Drake HP 2
#11944 Philip Dao Dow Agrosciences 2
#11944 Roy Law Black Sesame Technologies 2
#11944 Seokkyun Ko Qualcomm 2
#11944 Scott Dolin Unknown 2
#11944 Christopher Ohren Sony 2
#11944 Christopher Pyles — 2
#11944 Timothy Tranquill Legend3D 2
#11944 Nicolas Darbel — 2
#11944 Kambiz Azarian-Yazdi — 2
#11944 Chris Noriega Codexis 2
#11944 Jeffrey Wilson Kester Intuit 2
#11944 Minedys Macias Guzman — 2
#11944 Phanikumar Konkapaka Qualcomm 2
#11944 Carlos Chavez-Torres Synthetic Genomics 2
#11944 Laura Penny Dna Sciences Laboratories 2
#11944 Jeffrey M. Hilton Vala Sciences 2
#11944 Allen Shum US Air Force 2
#11944 Apsara Ravish Suvarna Qualcomm 2
#11944 Lilia Koriazova Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co. 2
#11944 Lucas R. Doran Intuit 2
#11944 Mihir Anandpara Qualcomm 2
#11944 Gopinath Murali Chinnathambi Qualcomm 2
#11944 Pankaj V. Rahate Qualcomm 2
#11944 Killian OUKOLOFF Epics Therapeutics 2
#11944 Benjamin A. Larson — 2
#11944 Joseph D. Nafziger — 2
#11944 Richard A. Grot Science Applications International 2
#11944 Joseph R. Aplin Callaway Golf 2
#11944 Patricia Taylor — 2
#11944 Michael Genuardi — 2
#11944 Brad McQuaid Maslow Six Entertainment 2
#11944 Giridhar Ramakrishnan Qualcomm 2
#11944 Tony Casarez AT&T 2

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