Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Sept 30, 2025

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 Zendrive, Cadence Design Systems, Oath. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 10,601–10,650 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#9535 Manish Sachdev Zendrive 4
#9535 Judd Matthew Ylinen Cadence Design Systems 4
#9535 Friedhold Alexander Seyfert Oath 4
#9535 Hongruo YUN Eureka Therapeutics 4
#9535 Dan Peterson Google 4
#9535 Mike Bauerly Sony 4
#9535 Mayank Somaiya Visa 4
#9535 Lawrence Benjamin Goldstein Uber Technologies 4
#9535 Thomas McConnell Uber Technologies 4
#9535 Patrice Vallmajo Roxio 4
#9535 Jingxi Li Smule 4
#9535 Matthew T. Alioto Veritainer 4
#9535 Niranjan Ramadas Hipmunk 4
#9535 Brett Welch Meta 4
#9535 Sergey V. Philippov Airbnb 4
#9535 Colombe Chappey Monogram Biosciences 4
#9535 Jeff Jensen Fluxion Biosciences 4
#9535 Igor Ribeiro de Assis Meta 4
#9535 Stephen Robert Bannick Lunar Energy 4
#9535 Avinash Dabir Ultrahaptics Ip Two Limited 4
#9535 Ellen Murphy Kinestral Technologies 4
#9535 Vladislav Kantchev Shunturov Abl Ip Holding 4
#9535 Justin Garcia Apple 4
#9535 Jad Osseiran Apple 4
#9535 Jeffrey Ching Wang Google 4
#9535 Allan Steven Leinwand Level 3 Communications 4
#9535 Andy Horng Open Text 4
#9535 Daniel Jordan Apple 4
#9535 Craig Gibbs Gilead Sciences 4
#9535 Sylvia Wen Chin Fan Evalve 4
#9535 Robbie Tilton Google 4
#9535 David Bingham Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 4
#9535 Nikolaj Wolfson Caltech 4
#9535 Jonas Fenn Volvo Car 4
#9535 Alberto Clemente Vitari Verily Life Sciences 4
#9535 Fangzhou Wang Dropbox 4
#9535 Yennie C. Solheim Niantic 4
#9535 Joshua T. LeVasseur HP 4
#9535 Louise Elizabeth Briguglio Addepar 4
#9535 Eric Cunningham Dropbox 4
#9535 Tim Weingarten Airbnb 4
#9535 Natalya Elkanova Boku 4
#9535 Jennifer McGrath Fitzpatrick Google 4
#9535 Joshua Austin Google 4
#9535 Sarah Walter Google 4
#9535 Rebecca Carter Zenpayroll 4
#9535 Ying Jessica Zhao Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 4
#9535 Dean Schaffer Smule 4
#9535 Sharon Grayce Randolph Walmart Apollo 4
#9535 Tanvi Chopra Walmart Apollo 4

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