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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 L'Oreal, Dropbox, Meta. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 11,051–11,100 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#9535 Rishabh Bhandari L'Oreal 4
#9535 Zihao Yang Dropbox 4
#9535 Christine Morck Rode Meta 4
#9535 Mostafa Mokhtar Cloudera 4
#9535 Ben Fisch Chia Network 4
#9535 Pinida Jan Moolsintong L'Oreal 4
#9535 Andre Yousefi L'Oreal 4
#9535 Jonathan Scott Tang L'Oreal 4
#9535 Lipa Long Chia Network 4
#9535 Richard Kiss Chia Network 4
#9535 Gary Golduber — 4
#9535 Dexter Reid Adobe 4
#9535 Martijn Dwars Oracle 4
#9535 Kuy N. Mainwaring August Home 4
#9535 David Blizzard Createme Technologies 4
#9535 Connor J. Duncan — 4
#9535 Temoojin Chalasani Microsoft 4
#9535 Po Keng Sung Apple 4
#9535 Hans Oksendahl Blueowl 4
#9535 Adam Pollack Zoox 4
#9535 Joseph Gebbia Airbnb 4
#9535 Peter Arvai Prezi 4
#9535 Anastasia Victor-Faichney Meta 4
#9535 Brandon Duncan IBM 4
#9535 Marc Powell Assa Abloy Ab 4
#9535 Nimesh Madhavan Chakravarthi Microsoft 4
#9535 Jonathan Heller Unknown 4
#9535 Arun Janakiraman Zoom Video Communications 4
#9535 Tim LeTourneau Zynga 4
#9535 Benoit Bourbie Cisco 4
#9535 Christopher Robert HART Babylon Partners Limited 4
#9535 Patrick E. McGuinnis Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 4
#9535 Molly Lloyd Mapbox 4
#9535 William C. Saphir Numenta 4
#9535 Greggory Alan Tavares Google 4
#9535 Janet Sun Ryu Zoosk 4
#9535 Nate Plumley Google 4
#9535 Rohan Ganeshananthan Verily Life Sciences 4
#9535 Ole CaveLie Google 4
#9535 Marek Vavrusa Cloudflare 4
#9535 Dina Westland Block 4
#9535 Scott T. Dalton Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 4
#9535 Denis Gefter Xactly 4
#9535 Samuel Reed Netflix 4
#9535 James Edward Cooley Agilent Technologies 4
#9535 Maxence Derreumaux Htc 4
#9535 Alexander Wesley Contryman Lyft 4
#9535 William Dirks Amazon 4
#9535 Michael Almodova Restoration Hardware 4
#9535 Evan Charlton Google 4

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