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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 Hydronovation, Yahoo Holdings, General Motors. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 10,651–10,700 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#9535 Peter Naylor Hydronovation 4
#9535 Vu B. Nguyen Yahoo Holdings 4
#9535 David Apgar Yahoo Holdings 4
#9535 Divya Thuremella General Motors 4
#9535 Chatham Reed Veeva Systems 4
#9535 Keely Roth Climate 4
#9535 Benjamin Isaac Mattinson Zoox 4
#9535 Deepanshu Utkarsh Sigma Computing 4
#9535 Muhammad Abbas Alhawagri Alector 4
#9535 JULIE L. LEMIEUX Sigma Computing 4
#9535 Adam Leon Microsoft 4
#9535 Abhishek Nath Ginger.Io 4
#9535 Amanda Withrow Ginger.Io 4
#9535 Shiba Sheikh Google 4
#9535 Marshall Nam Docusign 4
#9535 Caitlan Corbin Docusign 4
#9535 David M. Rau, III Inkling Systems 4
#9535 Nikita Shamgunov Memsql 4
#9535 Joseph Inkenbrandt Cryptography Research 4
#9535 Monina Dolan 3M 4
#9535 Signe Fransen Laboratory Corporation Of America Holdings 4
#9535 Philip Roan Robert Bosch Gmbh 4
#9535 Stephane Giraudie Dolby Laboratories Licensing 4
#9535 Alexander G. Berardino Apple 4
#9535 Sathya Chary Applied Materials 4
#9535 Arthur Rothstein Check Point Software Technologies 4
#9535 Florian Neukart Volkswagen 4
#9535 David Von Dollen Volkswagen 4
#9535 Yen-Chung Ma Samsung 4
#9535 Allegra Anna Lenta Shum Verb Surgical 4
#9535 Jonathan Hare — 4
#9535 Benedict Fraser Walker Samsara 4
#9535 Patrick Mackey Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories 4
#9535 Joost Kemink Climate 4
#9535 Martin Nicholas John Heaton Qwest Communications International 4
#9535 Nicholas Zambetti Qwest Communications International 4
#9535 Jesse Tane Qwest Communications International 4
#9535 Meng-Hsien Hsieh Amazon 4
#9535 Henry Joseph Sommer Zynga 4
#9535 Jacob Frautschi Warner Bros. Entertainment 4
#9535 Ashrith Barthur H2O.Ai 4
#9535 Pranav Pokharel Salesforce 4
#9535 Chris McKinlay Informatica 4
#9535 Hanyu Xue Magic Labs 4
#9535 Minhao Xu General Motors 4
#9535 James J. Panttaja Voxer Ip 4
#9535 Alexander Majercik NVIDIA 4
#9535 Jeffrey Loui Ebay 4
#9535 Andrea Di Blas Oracle 4
#9535 Aditya Tandon Cohesity 4

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