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

Showing 10,801–10,850 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#9535 Benjamin H. Nham Apple 4
#9535 Pierpaolo Bergamo Salesforce 4
#9535 Amina Shabbeer Amazon 4
#9535 Kenneth J. THOMSON Cisco 4
#9535 Yves Behar Nike 4
#9535 Harish Doddala Cisco 4
#9535 Michael C. Bostock Google 4
#9535 Benjamin D. Standefer Urban Airship 4
#9535 Christopher J. Boross Google 4
#9535 Karapet Shaginyan Uber Technologies 4
#9535 Alicia Korn Excalibur Ip 4
#9535 Kenneth Chiu — 4
#9535 Stephen M. Decker Corbion Biotech 4
#9535 Jim Ackerman The Armor All/Stp Products 4
#9535 Joseph A. Boswell Thermavant Technologies 4
#9535 Amra Q. Tareen Pulsepoint 4
#9535 Daniel Corona Apple 4
#9535 Aditi H. Mandpe — 4
#9535 Rouzbeh Safaie Atscale 4
#9535 Brian D. Patterson Achaogen 4
#9535 Eunsook An Opentv 4
#9535 Thomas Alan Dunlap Twin Health 4
#9535 Yuexin Chu Kabam, 4
#9535 Jason Lee Kabam, 4
#9535 Trent Michael Callan Cilag Gmbh International 4
#9535 Christopher Kuh Lyft 4
#9535 Alex Genco Kabam, 4
#9535 Nicholas Robert Barrett Lyft 4
#9535 Mario Trujillo Pax Labs 4
#9535 Omar Hernandez IBM 4
#9535 Tristan M. Burton Achates Power 4
#9535 Xi Gao Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co. 4
#9535 Viktor Vladimirovich Passichenko Meta 4
#9535 Clinton Cope Goldieblox 4
#9535 William Richard Clark Control4 4
#9535 Jon Karlo Lee Apple 4
#9535 Miranda Chapman Baxalta Incorporated 4
#9535 Bettina Ploder Baxalta Incorporated 4
#9535 Carlos Alejandro Sandrea Siebel Systems 4
#9535 Robert A. Maher Texas Instruments 4
#9535 Greg Fulco Google 4
#9535 Chang Hong Ye Google 4
#9535 Nicholas Wiles Google 4
#9535 Darrell Sher Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 4
#9535 Ryan Reading Samsara 4
#9535 David Ikuye Lyft 4
#9535 Miriam Felecia Clark Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 4
#9535 Moritz Harmel Zoox 4
#9535 Karandeep Johar Dropbox 4
#9535 Jae Kyu Ryu The J. David Gladstone Institute, A Testamentary Trust Established Under The Will Of J. David Gladstone 4

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