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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 Salesforce, Snowflake, Adobe. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 10,751–10,800 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#9535 Harsimranjit Singh Chabbewal Salesforce 4
#9535 Oana Niculaescu Snowflake 4
#9535 Roland Geisler Adobe 4
#9535 Luane Rowe Htc 4
#9535 Akshay Mani Hologic 4
#9535 Benjamin Golub Meta 4
#9535 Adam Odessky France Telecom 4
#9535 Mark Westfall Plasco 4
#9535 Chris Mullens Apple 4
#9535 David G. Henderson Dade Behring 4
#9535 Fulya Yilmaz Samsung 4
#9535 Sylvain Jack Niles Sling Media L.L.C. 4
#9535 Galen Alexander Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 4
#9535 Mallory McMillan General Motors 4
#9535 Shaddi Husein Hasan Meta 4
#9535 Samrat Kansara Google 4
#9535 Tom Florian Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 4
#9535 Ed Riehle Mentor Acquisition One 4
#9535 Hanna Fuhrmann Samsung 4
#9535 Thomas Romano Meta 4
#9535 Shawn-Lin Dzeng Wind River Systems 4
#9535 Owen Joseph Strain Apple 4
#9535 Alexander Gallego — 4
#9535 Greg Burkett Merck 4
#9535 Amanda Kahlow 6Sense Insights 4
#9535 Ryan D. Anderson Google 4
#9535 Angie Kim Merck 4
#9535 Eli Pollak Climate 4
#9535 Moorea Brega Climate 4
#9535 Cameron Chuk Hing Wu Meta 4
#9535 Bradley Ellis Lyft 4
#9535 Keyang Zhang Snap 4
#9535 Jenna Lee Patreon 4
#9535 Joy Ghanekar Zynga 4
#9535 Alp Artar Microsoft 4
#9535 Ramzi Abi Antoun Broadcom 4
#9535 Alex Marrs Quid 4
#9535 Cory R. Nicholas University of California 4
#9535 Lowell Trott Google 4
#9535 Mario Gomez-Hall Lyft 4
#9535 Neil Serebryany — 4
#9535 Christopher R. Antimary Disney 4
#9535 Jonathan James Bennett Lockheed Martin 4
#9535 Ian S. G. Kelly-Morgan Capacitor Sciences Incorporated 4
#9535 Wilson Tang Kabam, 4
#9535 Jennifer Wong Dropbox 4
#9535 Wolf Herda Acoustic 4
#9535 Robert Joseph Marsan Lyft 4
#9535 Sylvia N'guessan Google 4
#9535 Mike Costa Genentech 4

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