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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 Scale Ai, Intuit, Visa. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 10,451–10,500 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#9535 Samuel J. Clearman Scale Ai 4
#9535 Yuri Kapulkin Intuit 4
#9535 Paul Dyrwal Visa 4
#9535 David Holm Casper Sleep 4
#9535 Stephen P. Morse Intel 4
#9535 Srinath Anantharaju Meta 4
#9535 Defne Civelekoglu Casper Sleep 4
#9535 Sean Christopher Bromage Apple 4
#9535 Carlos V. Paya Cuenca Immune Design 4
#9535 Bruno Thuillier Elo Touch Solutions 4
#9535 Daniel R. Brownstone Uber Technologies 4
#9535 Chester H. CHIPPERFIELD Apple 4
#9535 Aaron Benjamin Iba Google 4
#9535 John D. Zamfirescu-Pereira Google 4
#9535 David L. Greenspan Google 4
#9535 Catherine Sheppard Merck 4
#9535 Edward Eli Marschner Trifacta 4
#9535 Anthony Wu Dei Headquarters 4
#9535 Jordan Mendelson Napster 4
#9535 David K. Bontempo Igt 4
#9535 Nathaniel John Herman Scale Ai 4
#9535 Noah Bradley Blecher Meta 4
#9535 Alexander P. Stein Meta 4
#9535 Charles Ordahl University of California 4
#9535 Akshat Bubna Scale Ai 4
#9535 Christophe Louis François Lamperti Microsoft 4
#9535 So-Ming Daniel Shia — 4
#9535 Michael Aurelio Salesforce 4
#9535 Michael Dobrowski Microcube 4
#9535 Erin B. Kenny Amazon 4
#9535 Margrethe Elizabeth Koshland The Procter & Gamble 4
#9535 Nancy Cho Ahn Westpoint Home 4
#9535 Sotiris Matzanas Yahoo Holdings 4
#9535 Omid Aziz Meta 4
#9535 Jake Kelly Byrnes Ancestry.Com Dna 4
#9535 Kevin Michael Mcclure Flir Detection 4
#9535 William J. Marks, Jr. Medtronic 4
#9535 Spencer Lord Informatica 4
#9535 Russell Eric Heddleston Meta 4
#9535 Melissa Dalis Inc Square, Co. 4
#9535 Xiangyu Sun Uber Technologies 4
#9535 Emily Kate Schneider Pearson Education 4
#9535 Christopher Jeffrey Hartley Bloom Energy 4
#9535 Daniel L. Walters Chevron 4
#9535 Noah Harold Shaw Uber Technologies 4
#9535 Paul Ling-Fung TANG Accuragen Holdings Limited 4
#9535 David Michael Holtz Airbnb 4
#9535 Vaughn Quoss Airbnb 4
#9535 Manfred Hettenkofer Model N 4
#9535 Siddharth Raina General Motors 4

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