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San Francisco, CA All Time

225,019 patents  ·  26,999 inventors  ·  257.5/1k pop.

Ranked #14 of 111,555 cities Top 1%

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 Google, University Of Medicine And Dentistry Of New Jersey, Cargill, Incorporated. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 10,201–10,250 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#9535 Nimesh Ranjan Google 4
#9535 Luna Dai Google 4
#9535 Neal Douglas Cardwell Google 4
#9535 Li Fang University Of Medicine And Dentistry Of New Jersey 4
#9535 Joshua Griffin Dunn Cargill, Incorporated 4
#9535 Wil Gieseler Google 4
#9535 Brian Gerard Duperrouzel Microsoft 4
#9535 Adam Thielemann Wegel Salesforce 4
#9535 Samantha Kelsey Halle Meta 4
#9535 Connie Zeng Ford 4
#9535 David Lutterkort IBM 4
#9535 Alireza Jajarmikhayat Meta 4
#9535 Marian Ming Chiao Cheung Meta 4
#9535 Andrew Chan Adobe 4
#9535 Daniel Furse Adobe 4
#9535 Matthew Dean Wilson Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 4
#9535 Karen Victoria Lees Google 4
#9535 Daniel Corbalan Google 4
#9535 Yuntao Zhou Atlassian Pty 4
#9535 Steve O'Donoghue Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories 4
#9535 Volodymyr Nykytiuk People.Ai 4
#9535 Mahesh YADAV Genentech 4
#9535 Paul Jardetzky Netapp 4
#9535 Peter Nollert University of California 4
#9535 Rohan Agrawal General Motors 4
#9535 Gavin Sebastian Hurley Lyft 4
#9535 Adam Alexander Wolf Lyft 4
#9535 Allan Hui Sae Magnetics (Hong Kong) Limited 4
#9535 Alisha Saxena Google 4
#9535 William R. Dahlberg Apple 4
#9535 Aurko Roy Google 4
#9535 Anish Bhatt Inc Square, Co. 4
#9535 Timothy Prowten Intel 4
#9535 Andrew Philip Peterson Intel 4
#9535 Nima Zahedi Maplebear 4
#9535 Joshua Brenner Rovi Guides 4
#9535 Rajatesh R. Gudibande University of Pennsylvania 4
#9535 Aman Dhesi Doordash 4
#9535 Jason Edward Luther Aruba Networks 4
#9535 Katherine Niehaus Apple 4
#9535 Yonchu Jenkins Rigel Pharmaceuticals 4
#9535 Selene Xu Walmart Apollo 4
#9535 Peter Raymond Florence Verizon 4
#9535 Irwan Bello Google 4
#9535 Daniel Freymann Koelker Cobalt Robotics 4
#9535 Richard William Branson Meta 4
#9535 Soroush Akbarzadeh Apple 4
#9535 Neal S. ELLIS Apple 4
#9535 Freeman Parks Salesforce 4
#9535 Kelly Hering Charm Industrial 4

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