Top Inventors in San Francisco, CA

San Francisco, CA ranks #5 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 12,858 patents from 4,702 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in San Francisco, CA include Apple, Intellectual Ventures, The Invention Science Fund I. That works out to 14.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 4,702 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Jonathan P. Ive	Apple	269
2	Duncan Robert Kerr	Apple	203
3	Matthew Dean Rohrbach	Apple	195
#4	Daniele De Iuliis	Apple	188
#5	Daniel J. Coster	Apple	187
#5	Eugene Antony Whang	Apple	187
#7	Rico Zörkendörfer	Apple	185
#8	M. Evans Hankey	Apple	181
#9	Peter Russell-Clarke	Apple	178
#10	Jeremy Bataillou	Apple	175
#11	Julian Hoenig	Apple	169
#12	Mikael Silvanto	Apple	150
#13	Clarence T. Tegreene	Intellectual Ventures	132
#14	Shota Aoyagi	Apple	131
#15	Imran Chaudhri	Apple	118
#16	Anthony Michael Ashcroft	Apple	105
#17	Nathan P. Myhrvold	The Invention Science Fund I	88
#18	Robert W. Lord	The Invention Science Fund I	85
#19	Alan C. Dye	Apple	61
#20	Christopher Wilson	Apple	60
#21	Richard T. Lord	Intellectual Ventures	54
#22	Wael William Diab	Broadcom	42
#23	James Proud	Hello	34
#24	Teemu Koponen	Nicira	33
#25	David I. Ferguson	Google	32
#26	Freddy Anzures	Apple	31
#27	Christopher P. Foss	Apple	29
#28	Matthew Lee Rogers	Google	26
#28	Bas Ording	Apple	26
#30	Mattia Pascolini	Apple	25
#30	Michael Matas	Apple	25
#32	Yves Behar	Aliphcom	24
#33	Rajit Johri	Ford	22
#33	Andrew Timothy Szybalski	Google	22
#35	Matthew J. Ward	IBM	21
#35	Matthew D. Klein	Amazon	21
#37	Elizabeth Caroline Cranfill	Apple	20
#37	Christopher Michael Jones	Halliburton Energy Services	20
#37	Christopher D. Prest	Apple	20
#37	Erick Tseng	Meta	20
#41	Alessandro Francesco Sabatelli	Apple	19
#42	Jennifer Riggs-Sauthier	Nektar Therapeutics	18
#42	Brad Eaton	Applied Materials	18
#42	Daniel R. BURNETT	Baronova	18
#42	Christopher Green	Amazon	18
#46	Matthew Amacker	A9.Com	17
#46	Ralph F. Osterhout	Mentor Acquisition One	17
#46	Marc E. Davis	Yahoo Holdings	17
#49	Mark Watson	Netflix	16
#49	Alexander Friedrich Kuscher	Google	16

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