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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 Soundhound, Block, Impossible Foods. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 10,551–10,600 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#9535 Zizu Gowayyed Soundhound 4
#9535 Stephen Brewer Block 4
#9535 Ian Guiles Ronningen Impossible Foods 4
#9535 Scott D. MacGregor Zynga 4
#9535 Etienne Jean-Claude Dejoie Samsara 4
#9535 Alexander Kern Coinbase 4
#9535 Philipe Manoux Nebia 4
#9535 Jennifer Le Couter Genentech 4
#9535 Diane Lee Nebia 4
#9535 Barry Trexler Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 4
#9535 Aaron Daniel Thieme Sp Controls 4
#9535 Dan Aguayo Cisco 4
#9535 Jesper Alexis Jernelius Eidos Therapeutics 4
#9535 Alec Madsen Formfactor 4
#9535 Nikhil Srinivasan Coinbase 4
#9535 Pablo Christian Gersberg Neumora Therapeutics 4
#9535 Hao Ran Raymond Lin Suki Ai 4
#9535 Joshua James Devenny Atlassian Pty 4
#9535 Surabhi Srivatsa Srinivasan Pfizer 4
#9535 Franziska Bell Uber Technologies 4
#9535 Laszlo Korsos Uber Technologies 4
#9535 Yashas Rao Suki Ai 4
#9535 Amanda Roever Oath 4
#9535 Henning Hohnhold Google 4
#9535 Teiji Sawa Mcw Research Foundation 4
#9535 Paul Sauer Alexa Internet 4
#9535 Murray Kucherawy Sendmail 4
#9535 Guiting Lin University of California 4
#9535 Ryan Joshua Pearl Formagrid 4
#9535 Joachim Muller-Lance Adobe 4
#9535 Tony Espinoza Meta 4
#9535 Raghav Sethi Formagrid 4
#9535 Greg Isaacs Ebay 4
#9535 Chuan Ji Formagrid 4
#9535 Eric Kelly Blanchard Pure Storage 4
#9535 Aditya Rao Apple 4
#9535 Marcelyn A. Berlo Interventional Therapeutics 4
#9535 Juan Pablo Acevedo Unknown 4
#9535 Avi Fein Google 4
#9535 Pavel Skaldin Evernote 4
#9535 Adam Mielke Netflix 4
#9535 Emmett Nicholas Formagrid 4
#9535 Alisson Gusatti Azzolini Meta 4
#9535 Michael Kodiak Palantir Technologies 4
#9535 Jeanmarie Donovan Sganga Theravance 4
#9535 Charles E. Ahlfors Research Corporation Technologies 4
#9535 John Callaway Google 4
#9535 John D. Barry University Of Maryland 4
#9535 Fredrick Lee Block 4
#9535 Roya Sheybani Cytovale 4

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