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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 Meta, U.S. Bank National Association, Laszlo Systems. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 10,401–10,450 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#9535 Matthew Bush Meta 4
#9535 Connie K. Yung U.S. Bank National Association 4
#9535 Pablo Kang Laszlo Systems 4
#9535 David Terrance Bartley Stripe 4
#9535 Martin Steiner Sap Se 4
#9535 Thomas Asbury Adaptive Biotechnologies 4
#9535 Rick Reeve Avago Technologies General Ip (Singapore) Pte. 4
#9535 Daniel Felix Pupius Google 4
#9535 Alexandre Guion Orb Networks 4
#9535 John G. Matthews Item New Product Development 4
#9535 Ryan James Schwers Hipmunk 4
#9535 David Ethan KENNERLY Lumos Labs 4
#9535 Luke S. Wallis Apple 4
#9535 Sanam Mirzazad BARIJOUGH — 4
#9535 Dona Williams HP 4
#9535 Chase Robinson Cloudflare 4
#9535 Anthony Choy — 4
#9535 Lucas Calderin Apple 4
#9535 Jennifer Carlile Google 4
#9535 Matthew L. Brandwein Oracle 4
#9535 Jeremie Talbot Disney 4
#9535 Jean-Max Vally Mocana 4
#9535 Zachary Blacher Coinbase 4
#9535 Shingo Kurokawa Sony 4
#9535 Geoff Donaldson Amazon 4
#9535 Brandon Cheung Echonous 4
#9535 David Young-June Kang Ebay 4
#9535 Bradley Feild Craddock Sunflow 4
#9535 Michael Henriksen IBM 4
#9535 Stephen A. Bayes Apple 4
#9535 Jack S. Yi Apple 4
#9535 Man Sheng Hu Alpha And Omega Semiconductor 4
#9535 Crenshaw Whitley Apple 4
#9535 Bradley Johnson Elan Pharmaceuticals 4
#9535 Edward Lee Elliott Comcast 4
#9535 Sandrine Lebas Ventus Medical Limited 4
#9535 Janine M. Morales Schering 4
#9535 Brandon Kroupa Adobe 4
#9535 Natasha Jensen Capital One Services 4
#9535 Jorge Noa Yahoo Holdings 4
#9535 Alison R. Maiorano The Procter & Gamble 4
#9535 Alexander Urban Andon — 4
#9535 Grant Merrill Covalent Group 4
#9535 Alex Kleeman Climate 4
#9535 Timothy D. Lundeen Apptimize 4
#9535 Michael Feiertag Rapid7 4
#9535 Thomas M. Lee Microsoft 4
#9535 Caroline A. Edwards Intuitive Surgical 4
#9535 Lillie A. Mosaddegh Unknown 4
#9535 Sean Daniel Rubicor Medical. 4

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