Top Inventors in San Luis Obispo, CA

San Luis Obispo, CA ranks #1,477 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 2,283 patents from 530 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in San Luis Obispo, CA include Immersion, Dioptics Medical Products, Promega. That works out to 48.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 530 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Louis B. Rosenberg	Immersion	262
2	Henry Welling Lane	Dioptics Medical Products	108
3	Eric Rhea	Dioptics Medical Products	61
#4	Poncho Meisenheimer	Promega	49
#5	William Waycott	Seminis Vegetable Seeds	46
#6	Herbert W. Hoeptner, III	Unknown	44
#7	Don Hannula	Nellcor Puritan Bennett	40
#8	Joel R. Walker	Promega	36
#9	Andrew John Smith	IBM	30
#10	Jeremy Fissell	Sunset Skateboard	29
#10	Peter Muller	Andrews Paper & Chemical Co.	29
#12	Joel J. Sheets	Dow Agrosciences	26
#13	Peter Smidth	Exalt Communications Incorporated	21
#13	Randolph Treur	Lam Research	21
#15	Scott Ganaja	Unknown	20
#16	Ce Shi	Promega	19
#16	Chris Melcer	Applied Materials	19
#16	Greg M. Chambers	Karl Storz Imaging	19
#19	Thomas M. Katona	Soraa	18
#20	Jason Brown	2Kdirect	17
#20	Michael Vogtmann	Strasbaugh	17
#22	Charles H. Applegarth	Saes Pure Gas	16
#23	Shane Thomas	2Kdirect	15
#23	John DeVincenzo	Unknown	15
#23	Nathaniel C. Bair	Accuri Cytometers	15
#26	John F. Paulick	Wine Master Cellars	14
#27	Dustin Eli Gamble	Lockheed Martin	12
#27	Joseph T. Wilson, III	IBM	12
#27	Matthew A. Wormley	Adobe	12
#30	Neal Saiki	Flex	11
#30	Christopher Hoffman	Samsung	11
#32	James K. Palmer	—	10
#32	Matthew Hall	Csidentity	10
#32	Thomas Linn	Lloyd Baggs Innovations	10
#32	Todd M. Meaney	Stoneridge Control Devices	10
#32	Samuel Slishman	Science & Technology Corporation @ Unm	10
#32	Al Siamon	Unknown	10
#32	Marc Ernest Willerth	Magnetic Variation Services	10
#32	Jerris E. Greenblat	Performance Apparel	10
#40	Michael Joseph Allwein	General Atomics Aeronautical Systems	9
#40	Amelia Michele Degenkolb	Alydia Health	9
#40	Joe Bonzi	2Kdirect	9
#40	William J. Kalenian	Strasbaugh	9
#40	Ross E. Johnson	IBM	9
#40	Neil Wallace Higgins	Bunge Oils	9
#40	Tommy L. Bennett	Amazon	9
#47	John Collen	Sram	8
#47	Alexander Kim	Cisco	8
#47	Guobin Liu	Intel	8
#47	Alan Strasbaugh	Strasbaugh	8

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