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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 Kohler Interiors Furniture, Amgen, Tusker Medical. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 10,701–10,750 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#9535 Steven Volpe Kohler Interiors Furniture 4
#9535 Peter Coward Amgen 4
#9535 Kate Hames Tusker Medical 4
#9535 Albert Hwu Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 4
#9535 Scott T. Silliman Globalenglish 4
#9535 Joseph Veltkamp Aible 4
#9535 Brent E. Pearson Globalenglish 4
#9535 Prantap Bedi Salesforce 4
#9535 William Chan Hong Kong Polytechnic University 4
#9535 Yu Qing Zhou Landingai 4
#9535 Dillon Laird Landingai 4
#9535 Adam Maxwell — 4
#9535 Ethan Charles Beswick — 4
#9535 Yem Huynh Ebay 4
#9535 Alec Kremonic Lee — 4
#9535 Aisha Ferrazares Dropbox 4
#9535 Douglas Famularo Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, A Subsidiary Of The Boeing 4
#9535 Jeremiah Malerich Sri International 4
#9535 Madeline Beyl Capital One Services 4
#9535 Pankhudi Pankhudi Boku 4
#9535 Tracy Cheung General Motors 4
#9535 Xiaolu Li Cisco 4
#9535 Ann Mongan Thermo Fisher 4
#9535 Jonathan Gramain Scality, S.A. 4
#9535 Laurens M. Schouten-Evers Argo Ai 4
#9535 Jawahar Sudhamsu Genentech 4
#9535 Nolwenn Godard PayPal 4
#9535 James Labrenz Applied Biosystems 4
#9535 Michael Almond Broadcom 4
#9535 Tal Benisty General Motors 4
#9535 Ian Kloville Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 4
#9535 Soleil Phan General Motors 4
#9535 Eric Levine Socure 4
#9535 Andras Csomai Google 4
#9535 Bradley Leong Feedback 4
#9535 Daniel Milligan Emergent Product Development Gaithersburg 4
#9535 Shirley Wu Cisco 4
#9535 Peter L. Mikelsons Nokia 4
#9535 Alex Sutton Inc Square, Co. 4
#9535 Steven Portela — 4
#9535 Bryan A. Cloyd Apple 4
#9535 Matthew Adler Capital One Services 4
#9535 Samuli Tapio Kekki Adobe 4
#9535 Michael Schier Basf Se 4
#9535 William Matthew Pender Paul Apple 4
#9535 Jonathan Kong Google 4
#9535 Robert Kummerer — 4
#9535 Megan L. Fu Google 4
#9535 Nastasha Tan Bank of America 4
#9535 Jennifer Ogilvie Draper Laboratory 4

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