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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 Uber Technologies, Crowdsmart, Channel Medsystems. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 11,101–11,150 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#9535 Logan Riley — 4
#9535 Zoran Martinovic Uber Technologies 4
#9535 Sonali Sinha Crowdsmart 4
#9535 Markus Guehrs Crowdsmart 4
#9535 Scott Sylliaasen Channel Medsystems 4
#9535 Sean Odlum Bliss Point Media 4
#9535 Jim Loup Zin Apple 4
#9535 Michael Wyrzykowski Microsoft 4
#9535 Karsten Patzwaldt NVIDIA 4
#9535 Aashish Jindia Amazon 4
#9535 Karin Geldfeld Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 4
#9535 Carlos Edel Olguin Alvarez Autodesk 4
#9535 Justin MacMillin Salesforce 4
#9535 Thomas Eugene Murphy Lineage Logistics 4
#9535 Luke Miner — 4
#9535 Joshua Roper Siebel Systems 4
#9535 Salman Budhwani Logitech Europe S.A. 4
#9535 Ali Moiz Logitech Europe S.A. 4
#9535 Shenly Glenn — 4
#9535 Jens-Peter Jungclaussen Unknown 4
#9535 Victor Shaun Ho — 4
#9535 Sam Cheung Google 4
#9535 Daniel McCool Opower 4
#9535 Justin Ziccardi Tonal Systems 4
#9535 Zachary M. Ruef Mbio Diagnostics 4
#9535 Lorena Zalles Google 4
#9535 Todd Cameron Pringle Ebay 4
#9535 Mustafa Paksoy Salesforce 4
#9535 Janelle Wolak Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 4
#9535 Sheldon Wong Kitty Hawk 4
#9535 Ameya A. Mhatre Apple 4
#9535 Anders Herning Block 4
#9535 Anna Geiduschek Dropbox 4
#9535 Brian Michael Filarsky Zoox 4
#9535 Nicholas Andrew White Genentech 4
#9535 Tobias Günter Knaup D2Iq 4
#9535 Judith C. Segura Apple 4
#9535 Maria Terres Climate 4
#9535 Kapil Yedidi Dropbox 4
#9535 Colin Abraham Raffel Google 4
#9535 Julian Rene Alvarez Skydio 4
#9535 James J. Reuther Apple 4
#9535 Sebastian Knitter Apple 4
#9535 Erica Lee Visa 4
#9535 Patrick Tyler Haas General Motors 4
#9535 William Story Stripe 4
#9535 Marc Rambert General Motors 4
#9535 Adam Little — 4
#9535 John Lai — 4
#9535 Nicholas Robins Apple 4

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