Top Inventors in San Francisco, CA

San Francisco, CA ranks #5 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 13,168 patents from 5,107 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in San Francisco, CA include Apple, Intellectual Ventures, The Invention Science Fund I. That works out to 15.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 5,107 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Jonathan P. Ive	Apple	206
2	Clarence T. Tegreene	Intellectual Ventures	161
3	Duncan Robert Kerr	Apple	145
#4	Matthew Dean Rohrbach	Apple	131
#5	Rico Zörkendörfer	Apple	123
#6	Daniele De Iuliis	Apple	122
#6	Daniel J. Coster	Apple	122
#6	Eugene Antony Whang	Apple	122
#9	M. Evans Hankey	Apple	117
#10	Julian Hoenig	Apple	116
#11	Peter Russell-Clarke	Apple	115
#11	Jeremy Bataillou	Apple	115
#13	Robert W. Lord	The Invention Science Fund I	114
#14	Mikael Silvanto	Apple	113
#15	Nathan P. Myhrvold	The Invention Science Fund I	111
#16	Imran Chaudhri	Apple	103
#17	Shota Aoyagi	Apple	96
#18	Richard T. Lord	Intellectual Ventures	84
#19	Anthony Michael Ashcroft	Apple	83
#20	Alan C. Dye	Apple	69
#21	Christopher Wilson	Apple	57
#22	Matthew Lee Rogers	Google	47
#23	Christopher P. Foss	Apple	41
#24	Molly Anderson	Apple	35
#25	Erick Tseng	Meta	32
#26	David S. Holz	Ultrahaptics Ip Two Limited	30
#27	Brian Mullins	Daqri	28
#27	David I. Ferguson	Google	28
#29	Ralph F. Osterhout	Mentor Acquisition One	27
#30	Michael Matas	Apple	25
#30	Mattia Pascolini	Apple	25
#32	Freddy Anzures	Apple	23
#33	Bas Ording	Apple	22
#33	Brian S. Leibowitz	Rambus	22
#33	Rajit Johri	Ford	22
#33	Patrick L. Coffman	Apple	22
#37	Teemu Koponen	Nicira	21
#37	Matthew J. Ward	IBM	21
#39	Stacey I. Zones	Chevron	20
#39	Saurabha Rangrao Tavildar	Qualcomm	20
#41	Stephanie K. Schultz	Kabam,	19
#41	Matthew Amacker	A9.Com	19
#41	Clifford J. Harrington	Kabam,	19
#44	Alessandro Francesco Sabatelli	Apple	18
#44	Jonathan R. Dascola	Apple	18
#46	Camille Moussette	Apple	17
#46	James Proud	Hello	17
#48	Daniel Adam Warren	Google	16
#48	Andrew Paul May	Caribou Biosciences	16
#48	Christopher Michael Jones	Halliburton Energy Services	16

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