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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 Aerovance, AMD, Mesosphere. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 10,501–10,550 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#9535 Stephanie Yung Aerovance 4
#9535 Gregory Meredith AMD 4
#9535 José Armando García Sancio Mesosphere 4
#9535 Emma M. Lees Schering 4
#9535 Theodore Philip Feldman — 4
#9535 Haruyuki KUBOTA Ichor Systems 4
#9535 Kareem Benjamin Oracle 4
#9535 Soroush Dean Khadem Zoox 4
#9535 Pablo Abad Google 4
#9535 Jean Bidegainberry Lifescan 4
#9535 Christina A. Trayers Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 4
#9535 Sameera Thangudu Salesforce 4
#9535 Nicholas Hage Schrock Meta 4
#9535 Peter Ying Kay Cheung Ic Innovations 4
#9535 Germain Verbrackel Black & Decker 4
#9535 Nicholas J. Kwiatek Meta 4
#9535 Mark Frederick Frigon Unknown 4
#9535 Leo Kopelow The Procter & Gamble 4
#9535 David Ford Flerlage Clover Health 4
#9535 Zach Singleton Uber Technologies 4
#9535 Alex Wuebben — 4
#9535 Connor H. Dunn Block 4
#9535 Erica Ulrich Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 4
#9535 Tristen Magallanes — 4
#9535 Gregory J. Easton Easton Sports 4
#9535 Elias Levy Broadcom 4
#9535 Philippe Tarbouriech Microvision 4
#9535 Kee Wong Cytokinetics 4
#9535 Bertha Ching Wai Lam Salesforce 4
#9535 Vanessa Hodge Google 4
#9535 Michael Jones Cisco 4
#9535 Damjan Stankovic Airbnb 4
#9535 Carlos Rovira Borras Gastroklenz 4
#9535 Gregg Williams Jp3 Measurement 4
#9535 Dheeraj Ashok Motwani Google 4
#9535 Brian Oh Dropbox 4
#9535 Christian De Angelis Block 4
#9535 Robert K. Kong Apple 4
#9535 Morgan Engel Block 4
#9535 David Hotchkiss Twitter 4
#9535 Vibhor Chhabra Block 4
#9535 Rodrigo Ipince Google 4
#9535 Andrew Jaffray Microsoft 4
#9535 Eric Zundel Ayers Block 4
#9535 David Price Williams Amazon 4
#9535 Agustus Shelander Aperia Technologies 4
#9535 Jonathan Sockolosky Stanford University 4
#9535 Burkay Gur Oracle 4
#9535 Jason Teller Salesforce 4
#9535 Esteban Sardera Opentv 4

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