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 HP, Scripps Research, Sony. That works out to 169.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 13,201–13,250 of 23,606 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11944 Alisher Alikhodjaev HP 2
#11944 Douglas Freeland — 2
#11944 Subhash C. Sinha Scripps Research 2
#11944 Setsuko Watanabe Sony 2
#11944 Ramon A. Beltran Ophir 2
#11944 Aurelio Maruggi HP 2
#11944 Paul Thomas Geantil — 2
#11944 Juan Francisco Leon Space Systems/Loral 2
#11944 Youting Sun Sequenom 2
#11944 David Lee Stanford Unknown 2
#11944 Marsh V. Racine — 2
#11944 Hassan Yarpezeshkan Square D 2
#11944 David Marcus Unknown 2
#11944 Gordana Djordjevic North Carolina State University 2
#11944 Edward H. Stiles US Air Force 2
#11944 Dean A. Kirby Salk Institute For Biological Studies 2
#11944 Alex Wickstrom — 2
#11944 Doron Basha — 2
#11944 Angela Kalbande Illumina Cambridge Limited 2
#11944 Ebrahim Sherkat — 2
#11944 Peter Christopher Larsson Klatu Networks 2
#11944 William F. Netzeband Cipher Data Products 2
#11944 James Dieckman Carefusion 303 2
#11944 Maxim Zaslavsky Bfly Operations 2
#11944 Jagdish Gopalakrishnan Broadcom 2
#11944 Yuanhang Huang Open Text 2
#11944 Behnam Khaleghi Sharif University Of Technology 2
#11944 Siling Zhao Kumquat Biosciences 2
#11944 Kumar Veluswamy Senthil Qualcomm 2
#11944 Aaron Jimenez Lendingclub Bank, National Association 2
#11944 Mark Ross Mitchiner Cisco 2
#11944 Clifton Santford Bate Leap Wireless International 2
#11944 Samantha K. Brittelle Illumina 2
#11944 Jeffrey T. Cole Wd-40 2
#11944 Jason Jolly HP 2
#11944 James J. Whelan — 2
#11944 Ting Li IBM 2
#11944 Gretchen BAIN Pharmakea 2
#11944 Shouwen Lai Huawei 2
#11944 You-Jung Cheng Illumina 2
#11944 Nathan George Wiger Amazon 2
#11944 Blair C. Jennings A-Life Medical 2
#11944 Zachary Levin Amazon 2
#11944 Stephen J. Libby University Of Washington 2
#11944 John F. Keaveney Targus Information 2
#11944 Sudhakar BOLLAPRAGADA Solar Turbines Incorporated 2
#11944 Nicholas Buchanan Mallory 22 Evolution 2
#11944 John E. Prunty, II General Dynamics Corporation, Convair Division 2
#11944 Dan Funke Parker-Hannifin 2
#11944 Patrick C. Murray Combined Conditional Access Development And Support 2

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