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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 T-Mobile Innovations, Imed, Ndsu Research Foundation. That works out to 169.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 13,451–13,500 of 23,606 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11944 Michael L. Ayres T-Mobile Innovations 2
#11944 Robert A. Bramble Imed 2
#11944 Patrick Simpson Ndsu Research Foundation 2
#11944 Sam Elhag — 2
#11944 Ishit Mehta Adobe 2
#11944 Prince Magsino Tesla 2
#11944 Jianqiu CAO Tusimple 2
#11944 Vince Heesen HP 2
#11944 Jim Wilkinson Litel Instruments 2
#11944 Payam Manavi — 2
#11944 Edward J. Benoit — 2
#11944 Ronald B Thompson US Air Force 2
#11944 Fabio Broccatelli Almac Discovery Limited 2
#11944 Derek Dema-ala Ogio International 2
#11944 Nisarg J. Shah Harvard University 2
#11944 Gabrielle Gordon Core Scientific 2
#11944 Tyler D. Baguley Scripps Research 2
#11944 Murali Mohan Reddy Peram Surakattula Scripps Research 2
#11944 Sujee Rajayogam Google 2
#11944 Paul E. Hertzberg The Boeing 2
#11944 Linh D. Nguyen Nokia 2
#11944 Alan Jost Aryballe 2
#11944 Zhenhuan Zheng Aardvark Therapeutics 2
#11944 Erica Poole Peregrine Semiconductor 2
#11944 Zhe Li Bounaud Sgx Pharmaceuticals 2
#11944 Marlina Lukman Aveva Software 2
#11944 James Peffley Hamilton Sundstrand 2
#11944 Alexandre de Kochko Scripps Research 2
#11944 Michael Telfer Solar Turbines Incorporated 2
#11944 Daniel Hoffman Teradata Us 2
#11944 Kenneth Shortes Teradata Us 2
#11944 Qijun HU Genomatica 2
#11944 Bernardo Moura TORRES DA COSTA Genomatica 2
#11944 Min Sun PARK Genomatica 2
#11944 Angelica Zabala BAUTISTA Genomatica 2
#11944 Michael Coolen Anokiwave 2
#11944 CHELSEA ANN GAMMON Clearflow 2
#11944 Shuaib Arshad Qualcomm 2
#11944 Steven Mauch Gen-Probe Incorporated 2
#11944 Deepak WADHWA Qualcomm 2
#11944 Thomas W. Hurn General Atomics 2
#11944 Guido Hamacher — 2
#11944 Curtis Tyree Huya Bioscience International 2
#11944 Chengyuan Ding Asml Netherlands B.V. 2
#11944 Joe G. Stetman Smith & Nephew Donjoy 2
#11944 Shalaka Purohit Verenium 2
#11944 Daniel J. Funke Parker-Hannifin 2
#11944 Pablo Castellanos Garcia Skyscanner Limited 2
#11944 Jerry P. Fregoe Solar Turbines Incorporated 2
#11944 Tyrone Jacob Yacoub Cb Therapeutics 2

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