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 United States Postal Service, Oliver Crispin Robotics Limited, Apple. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 10,951–11,000 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#9535 Danny Tan United States Postal Service 4
#9535 Christopher D. BOYCE Oliver Crispin Robotics Limited 4
#9535 Jeff Kalt Apple 4
#9535 Floris Chabert Apple 4
#9535 Dave Edelhart Ultrahaptics Ip Two Limited 4
#9535 Wilbur Yung Sheng Yu Ultrahaptics Ip Two Limited 4
#9535 Daniel Plemmons Ultrahaptics Ip Two Limited 4
#9535 Cheyne Wallace Upguard 4
#9535 Jessica Luu Hologic 4
#9535 David Ollinger Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories 4
#9535 Andrew John Tulloch Meta 4
#9535 Paul M. Franceus Niantic 4
#9535 Heike E. Daldrup-Link Stanford University 4
#9535 Christine Concho Crave Innovations 4
#9535 Miguel Christophy Spark Grills 4
#9535 Eleonora Trotta University of California 4
#9535 Abdul-Kader Srouji Robert Bosch Gmbh 4
#9535 Jason Canada A9.Com 4
#9535 John Milinovich Pinterest 4
#9535 Darren Douglas Gyles Electronic Arts 4
#9535 Li Sun Wistron 4
#9535 Paul Doersch Kespry 4
#9535 Anthony Kilman Cisco 4
#9535 Eric J. Hoffmann Applied Materials 4
#9535 Puneet Shah Groupon 4
#9535 Nam Hoai DO 4
#9535 Ian A. Nies Autodesk 4
#9535 Gareth Douglas Sudul Groupon 4
#9535 Joel H. Wood Gracenote Media Services 4
#9535 Brian T. Schroeder Gracenote Media Services 4
#9535 Behzad Behrouzi Zoosk 4
#9535 Samantha Radocchia Chronicled 4
#9535 Jill Wilken Gryphon Therapeutics 4
#9535 Sharon Stovezky Google 4
#9535 Dean Ng Igm Biosciences 4
#9535 David Warner Piearcings 4
#9535 Mike Burn Guidewire Software 4
#9535 Adam J. Spanky Compain Google 4
#9535 Kyle Wilkinson Cirrus Logic 4
#9535 Margaret McLaughlin University of California 4
#9535 Samson Min Rong Tan Salesforce 4
#9535 Thomas Chathoth Abraham Apple 4
#9535 Christy M. Hebner Alnylam Pharmaceuticals 4
#9535 Deian Stefan Broadcom 4
#9535 Donovan Deame Human, Incorporated 4
#9535 Joseph Desloge MIT 4
#9535 David Staub Sbc Properties 4
#9535 Richard Henry Donaldson, II Ebay 4
#9535 Joerg Schleicher Ebay 4
#9535 Mauro Della Penna Nio Usa 4

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