Top Inventors in San Francisco, CA

San Francisco, CA ranks #4 worldwide for total patents filed in 2020, with 16,384 patents from 6,857 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in San Francisco, CA include Apple, Magic Leap, Ntt Docomo. That works out to 18.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 6,857 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Jonathan P. Ive	Apple	164
2	Duncan Robert Kerr	Apple	124
3	Rico Zörkendörfer	Apple	111
#4	Eugene Antony Whang	Apple	105
#5	Julian Hoenig	Apple	102
#5	Peter Russell-Clarke	Apple	102
#7	Mikael Silvanto	Apple	100
#7	Jeremy Bataillou	Apple	100
#7	M. Evans Hankey	Apple	100
#10	Christopher Wilson	Apple	94
#11	Shota Aoyagi	Apple	91
#12	Alan C. Dye	Apple	88
#13	Daniele De Iuliis	Apple	87
#14	Imran Chaudhri	Apple	86
#15	Anthony Michael Ashcroft	Apple	76
#16	Matthew Dean Rohrbach	Apple	68
#17	Daniel J. Coster	Apple	67
#18	Molly Anderson	Apple	58
#19	Patrick L. Coffman	Apple	53
#20	Markus Diebel	Apple	50
#21	Clement Tissandier	Apple	49
#22	Christopher P. Foss	Apple	48
#23	Lorena Pazmino	Magic Leap	46
#24	Marine C. Bataille	Apple	45
#24	Julian Jaede	Apple	45
#26	Liu Liu	Ntt Docomo	39
#27	Clarence T. Tegreene	Intellectual Ventures	35
#28	Mattia Pascolini	Apple	33
#29	Freddy Anzures	Apple	32
#30	Radu Bogdan Rusu	Fyusion	29
#31	David S. Holz	Ultrahaptics Ip Two Limited	28
#32	Kenneth Jason Sanchez	State Farm	26
#33	Jonathan R. Dascola	Apple	25
#33	Robert W. Lord	The Invention Science Fund I	25
#35	Nathan P. Myhrvold	The Invention Science Fund I	24
#36	Christopher Michael Jones	Halliburton Energy Services	22
#37	Zachary Apte	Ubiome	21
#37	Michael Matas	Apple	21
#37	Christopher Kuh	Apple	21
#37	Ralph F. Osterhout	Mentor Acquisition One	21
#37	Jessica Richman	Ubiome	21
#42	James Monsees	Juul Labs	20
#42	Robin Maxime Clediere	Meta	20
#44	Venkata Subrahmanyam Chandra Sekhar Chebiyyam	Qualcomm	19
#44	Richard T. Lord	Intellectual Ventures	19
#44	Jonah Avram Becker	Google	19
#44	Robert Dale Cavin	Meta	19
#48	Matthew Lee Rogers	Google	18
#48	David I. Ferguson	Google	18
#48	Adriana Teresa Olmos Antillon	Google	18

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