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

Showing 10,851–10,900 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#9535 Joshua Duncan Hight Rubrik 4
#9535 James M. Byrum Path 4
#9535 Elizabeth Gloria Guarino Reid Apple 4
#9535 Quarup S. Barreirinhas Google 4
#9535 Eric Delwart Blood Systems 4
#9535 David Hyon Berrios General Motors 4
#9535 Francesco Paduano Dropbox 4
#9535 Andrew Fager 4
#9535 Rebecca Greenberg Salesforce 4
#9535 Warren R. Ong Fairchild Camera & Instrument 4
#9535 Jason Bucher Zynga 4
#9535 George Ke Sigopt 4
#9535 Alex Chung Lap Yeung Apple 4
#9535 Vinayram Balakumar Magic Leap 4
#9535 Mira Tohmé Nkarta 4
#9535 Jean-Pierre Simard Lyft 4
#9535 Jonathan Swanson Thumbtack 4
#9535 Jeremy Tunnell Thumbtack 4
#9535 Scott D. Marsic Halliburton Energy Services 4
#9535 Deena Rosen Opower 4
#9535 Aymeric MAROS Array Photonics 4
#9535 John Solis National Technology & Engineering Solutions Of Sandia 4
#9535 Chad West Apple 4
#9535 Pierre Grenier Lithium Technologies 4
#9535 Jeff Royal Advanced Cardiovascular Systems 4
#9535 Brett Schuenemann Salesforce 4
#9535 Judy Liu HP 4
#9535 Adam Daniel John 4
#9535 Rebecca Corcillo Block 4
#9535 Enrico Frezza 4
#9535 Malcolm Garland Strong Force Tx Portfolio 2018 4
#9535 Armand KOLSTER 4
#9535 David Charles Kuchar Strong Force Tx Portfolio 2018 4
#9535 Jaime G. Chavez Ruiz Garza Apple 4
#9535 Meredith Trotter Electronic Arts 4
#9535 Stefano Casadei Sirf Technology 4
#9535 Mian CHEN China University Of Petroleum—Beijing 4
#9535 David Curtis Stone Trace Genomics 4
#9535 Kevin Tian Joby Aero 4
#9535 Aaron Lehmann Blueowl 4
#9535 Spencer Tucker Glu Mobile 4
#9535 Iddo Gino 4
#9535 Daniel Feldman Western Digital Technologies 4
#9535 Jose M. Giron Nanne Verkada 4
#9535 Riccardo M. Pagliarella Stemco Products 4
#9535 Jordan K. Buller Accenture Global Services Limited 4
#9535 Ramaswami Kishore Hewlett Packard Enterprise 4
#9535 Serkan Mulayin Symphony Communication Services Holdings 4
#9535 Kei Edgardo Yamamoto Kohatsu Osterhout Group 4
#9535 Hooman Barekatain General Motors 4

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