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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 Shure Acquisition Holdings, Adobe, Dcg Systems. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 10,251–10,300 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#9535 Emily Ann Wigley Shure Acquisition Holdings 4
#9535 Ashok Pancily Poothiyot Adobe 4
#9535 Rudolf Schlangen Dcg Systems 4
#9535 Augustin Soule Sprint Communications 4
#9535 Thomas Kuhn Corpak 4
#9535 Charles Mooney Motorola 4
#9535 Chiranjeeb Kataki Polysign 4
#9535 Ryan D. Woebkenberg Salesforce 4
#9535 Jeffrey Fenchel Zignal Labs 4
#9535 Loretta Jimenez Zignal Labs 4
#9535 Dan Good Kovio 4
#9535 Anthony Chong — 4
#9535 Kelvin Tow Pinterest 4
#9535 Nicole Crawford Pinterest 4
#9535 Harrison He Pinterest 4
#9535 Ricardo Figueiroa Monteiro Microsoft 4
#9535 Vivian Barad Microsoft 4
#9535 Christopher Steven NOWAKOWSKI Valeo Comfort And Driving Assistance 4
#9535 John Oliver Por Google 4
#9535 Andrew Hudak Fellow Industries 4
#9535 Gregory Miller Amazon 4
#9535 Clement Puertolas Ouraring 4
#9535 Woei Ling Leow Oracle 4
#9535 Maximilian H. Allan Intuitive Surgical 4
#9535 Guy Ravine — 4
#9535 Bijan Andre Boldajipour Pfizer 4
#9535 Benjamin James Caine Google 4
#9535 Jasper Z. Williams University of California 4
#9535 Yeshwant Sai Madanagopal Salesforce 4
#9535 Matthew Rodolfo Molina Dexterity 4
#9535 Karthik Mohan Subramanian Salesforce 4
#9535 Yen-Wen Chen University of California 4
#9535 Paul Thies Twitter 4
#9535 Nitin Dileep Salodkar Zendrive 4
#9535 Scott Caroen Epicentrx 4
#9535 Andrew Gertig Block 4
#9535 Karolis Kosas Stripe 4
#9535 Jeffrey Zoch Salesforce 4
#9535 Eric Alexander Hurlimann Perret Salesforce 4
#9535 Nicholas Joseph Scalzi Google 4
#9535 David Tam — 4
#9535 Dennis Franklin Olson Visa 4
#9535 Wesley KaiJie Leung Uber Technologies 4
#9535 Ha Nam Nguyen Parkinson'S Institute 4
#9535 Trevor J. Edmonds Apple 4
#9535 Nick Kruge Smule 4
#9535 Andrei M. Marinescu Apple 4
#9535 Daniel Kappler Google 4
#9535 Victor Jakubiuk — 4
#9535 Michelle Venetucci Harvey Lyft 4

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