Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Sept 30, 2025

San Francisco, CA ranks #14 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 225,019 patents from 26,999 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in San Francisco, CA include Auris Health, Genentech, Salesforce. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 10,101–10,150 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#9535 Jeffery D. Howard Auris Health 4
#9535 Twyla Noelle Lombana Genentech 4
#9535 Ja-Chin Audrey Lee 4
#9535 Arvind Srikantan Salesforce 4
#9535 Anatalio C. Ubalde 4
#9535 Peter Garcia-Meza C2 Therapeutics 4
#9535 Kate Knox 4
#9535 Javier Cardona Scientific Technologies 4
#9535 Gabrielle Zadina Google 4
#9535 Peter Hume Rigano Microsoft 4
#9535 J. Matthew Barnes University Of Iowa 4
#9535 Kenny Sweet Apple 4
#9535 Meghan Kerrisk Campbell Alkahest 4
#9535 Sean Stauth Accenture Global Services Limited 4
#9535 Jonte Craighead Accenture Global Services Limited 4
#9535 Sridatta Kaustubh Thatipamala Pinterest 4
#9535 Barnabas Mink Gracenote 4
#9535 Michael Yamartino Pinterest 4
#9535 Simon Eves 4
#9535 Dimitrios Terzis Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (Epfl) 4
#9535 Christoph Moskalonek Adobe 4
#9535 Yangyong Zhang Visa 4
#9535 Matthew Hamlin Adobe 4
#9535 Brendan Doyle Wade Zipline International 4
#9535 Emilie Johnson Medtronic 4
#9535 Ish Harshawat 4
#9535 Andy Montgomery Block 4
#9535 Somasunder Vijay Sekaran Hollister Incorporated 4
#9535 Jeremy Bataiilou Apple 4
#9535 Benjamin Paik Zenpayroll 4
#9535 Zachary London Lyft 4
#9535 David E. Wildes Revolution Medicines 4
#9535 Lily Sierra Lyft 4
#9535 Stijn Jagers Lyft 4
#9535 Mark Swope Rapid Lab 4
#9535 Vanessa Lai Rapid Lab 4
#9535 Raymond Xu Anchor Semiconductor 4
#9535 Samuel Rislove Etler Amazon 4
#9535 Rashmi Kalyani Vasudevan Cisco 4
#9535 Laura Buzek Zenpayroll 4
#9535 Sophia A. Simpson IBM 4
#9535 Shahriar Sefati The Johns Hopkins University 4
#9535 Terry J. Santamaria Apple 4
#9535 Sarah Lee Shader Asana 4
#9535 Dylan Matthew Callaway Skydio 4
#9535 Denise Chan Stanford University 4
#9535 Benjamin Eli Nelson Chelf 4
#9535 Eric Hodel Fastly 4
#9535 Krishnan R. Subramaniam Google 4
#9535 David Pascal Delphi Technologies 4

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