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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 Inc Square, Co., France Telecom, Gopro. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 10,901–10,950 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#9535 Anthony Bishopric Inc Square, Co. 4
#9535 John Benko France Telecom 4
#9535 Balu Adsumilli Gopro 4
#9535 Alexandra Jane Crane Google 4
#9535 Caroline Cranfill Apple 4
#9535 Sean Patrick SALL Arterys 4
#9535 Conrado Eduardo Poole Siguero Open Text 4
#9535 Christopher Neil Hawes Amazon 4
#9535 Jed Crosby Salesforce 4
#9535 Garrett Camp Uber Technologies 4
#9535 Bradley T. Hall Block 4
#9535 Wiebke Poerschke Sugarcrm 4
#9535 Trent Baren Lyft 4
#9535 Amalkrishnan Chemmany Gopalakrishnan Salesforce 4
#9535 Brian Bolze Hyperice Ip Subco 4
#9535 Martin Conte MacDonnell Lyft 4
#9535 Bao Duong Trianni 4
#9535 Tzu-San Hung Lyft 4
#9535 Keren Kochava Baruch Microsoft 4
#9535 Anatoly E. Yakovenko Dropbox 4
#9535 Ken Yagen Bea Systems 4
#9535 Terry Y. Liu Apple 4
#9535 Shivani Aggarwal Juniper Networks 4
#9535 Katrina W. Lexa Denali Therapeutics 4
#9535 Myra C. Lukens Apple 4
#9535 Shubhankar Basu Globalfoundries 4
#9535 Andrew C. Pedtke Lim Innovations 4
#9535 Hungyu Henry Lin Uber Technologies 4
#9535 Kris Branson Gale Yammer 4
#9535 Kebin Wu Amazon 4
#9535 Ignacio Carlos Blanco Google 4
#9535 Andrea Wildt Salesforce 4
#9535 Brendan D. McDonald Intuit 4
#9535 Ashley Clark Apple 4
#9535 James Jacob Watters Pivotal Software 4
#9535 Lynsey Haynes Salesforce 4
#9535 Brent Robert Blum Accenture Global Solutions Limited 4
#9535 Khalid A. AlNasser — 4
#9535 Ibrahim O. AlGwaiz — 4
#9535 Patrick Mineault Meta 4
#9535 Joseph Redmon X Development 4
#9535 Kendall L. Helbert Apple 4
#9535 Arthur Wu Palantir Technologies 4
#9535 Aditya Gorthi Netflix 4
#9535 Derek Collins Netflix 4
#9535 Alex Ivlev Netflix 4
#9535 Nathalie Walton Ebay 4
#9535 Joshua Corbin Uber Technologies 4
#9535 Jered Wierzbicki Google 4
#9535 Yves Le Bras IBM 4

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