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 Flatiron Health, Analog Devices, Microsoft. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 10,301–10,350 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#9535 David Light Flatiron Health 4
#9535 Aroll A. Jones 4
#9535 Simon Nicholas Fiedler Basilico Analog Devices 4
#9535 Guillaume Raoult Microsoft 4
#9535 Assaf Haim Shalev Lyft 4
#9535 Farshid Haque 4
#9535 Mainul Islam 4
#9535 Eric Palm Hipmunk 4
#9535 Gregory Millam Hipmunk 4
#9535 Alex Quintana Hipmunk 4
#9535 Ming Fei Li Meta 4
#9535 Zachary Kagin Dropbox 4
#9535 Madeline Elliott Parker Kitty Hawk 4
#9535 Krishnan Kanna PALANIAPPAN Verily Life Sciences 4
#9535 Ramin Soheili 4
#9535 Aragon Burlingham Toolz 4
#9535 Damir Frkovic Apple 4
#9535 Nikunj Bhagat Twitter 4
#9535 Claire Cunningham Abbott 4
#9535 Matthew Hallock Rodan & Fields 4
#9535 Megan Blake Rodan & Fields 4
#9535 Michael J. Kanaley Tibco Software 4
#9535 Andres Morales Google 4
#9535 Gerald Filby 4
#9535 Mihnea Cezar Giurgea Dropbox 4
#9535 Jacob Miller Fellow Industries 4
#9535 Evan Michael Wilson Joby Aero 4
#9535 Alon Bartur Trifacta 4
#9535 Adhiraj Somani Dropbox 4
#9535 Jennifer Su Google 4
#9535 Sean Safreed 4
#9535 George F. Lucas Aethon 4
#9535 Jennifer Siu Bettendorff AT&T 4
#9535 Collin Greene Salesforce 4
#9535 John Q. Norwood Immersion 4
#9535 Angel R. Pineda Stanford University 4
#9535 Jyotirmaya Akkad Google 4
#9535 Sam Calisch Autodesk 4
#9535 Nikita Gnedin 4
#9535 Lucas Jerome Birdeau Tibco Software 4
#9535 Tobias Kinnebrew X Development 4
#9535 William Robert Glass Hipmunk 4
#9535 James Anthony Musk Tesla 4
#9535 Griffin L. Schmitt Apple 4
#9535 Clayton Mellina Oath 4
#9535 Illiana REED Capital One Services 4
#9535 Katherine B. Skinner Apple 4
#9535 Alan Savage Google 4
#9535 Justin Anthony Young Abnormal Security 4
#9535 Scott Dreier Trimble Navigation Limited 4

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