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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 Telephia Incorporation, Apple, Box. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 10,351–10,400 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#9535 Brian Warshawsky — 4
#9535 Alan Peyrat Telephia Incorporation 4
#9535 Jamil Dhanani Apple 4
#9535 Jeff Queisser Box 4
#9535 James Meredith Follicle 4
#9535 Ralph Gnauck Sbc Technology Resources 4
#9535 Chris Byron Box 4
#9535 Chris Rosato Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 4
#9535 Jennifer Blaha Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 4
#9535 Michael Nehmad Honda Motor Co. 4
#9535 Raffi Tutundjian Ebay 4
#9535 David J. Capra Meta 4
#9535 Rolf Rando August Home 4
#9535 Randy Mangelsen Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 4
#9535 Andrew A. Stirn Intel 4
#9535 Noah Wise Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 4
#9535 David Levy KANTER Tolo 4
#9535 Ann M. Miletti Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 4
#9535 Bar Ifrach Airbnb 4
#9535 Raluca Musaloiu-Elefteri Cisco 4
#9535 Rachel Paige Arnott Regeneron Pharmaceuticals 4
#9535 Margaret Allen Fibrogen 4
#9535 Donald R. Walling Adobe 4
#9535 Thomas Charles Genoni Inkling Systems 4
#9535 Aadil Sarfani Dropbox 4
#9535 Michael Royce Kemper Microsoft 4
#9535 Alexander Shtuchkin Dropbox 4
#9535 Christopher Jason Wetherell Google 4
#9535 Olga Stepanova Dropbox 4
#9535 Guillaume P. Lebleu First Data 4
#9535 Peter Roy Havas — 4
#9535 Philip A. Darringer Emc 4
#9535 Eric Wilson Salesforce 4
#9535 Amritha Prasad Uber Technologies 4
#9535 Jonathan Glidden Salesforce 4
#9535 Dhruv Tyagi Uber Technologies 4
#9535 Javier Cambon Sanjurjo Hover 4
#9535 Dominique Marcel Georgette Van de Sompel Meta 4
#9535 Joshua M. Daymont — 4
#9535 Aaron Bronzan Microsoft 4
#9535 Rory C. Keogh The Boeing 4
#9535 Siddharth Rajgarhia Palantir Technologies 4
#9535 Jonathon Wolfe Enphase Energy 4
#9535 Ted Knudsen IBM 4
#9535 Erik Rannala Ebay 4
#9535 Gerald Richard Cain Spoken Translation 4
#9535 Eryn R. Wells Apple 4
#9535 David Kleinberg Adobe 4
#9535 Michael RASOOLY Puracath Medical 4
#9535 Bradley Outlaw Adobe 4

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