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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 Climate, Cloudflare, Cisco. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 11,201–11,250 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#9535 Harish Sangireddy Climate 4
#9535 Terin Stock Cloudflare 4
#9535 Pedro Leonardo Cisco 4
#9535 Mathew Tabor Loon 4
#9535 Carl Joseph Blubaugh Twitter 4
#9535 Jean-Pierre Cuidad Apple 4
#9535 Jonathan R. Reeves Apple 4
#9535 Stuart Kyle Switch Bulb Company 4
#9535 Max Braun Appario Global Solutions (Ags) Ag 4
#9535 Liye Zhang Amcor Limited 4
#9535 Rishi Garg Apple 4
#9535 Stephen J. Budill — 4
#9535 Aaron M. Sigel Apple 4
#9535 Frieder Bluemle PayPal 4
#9535 Gleb Mezhanskiy Phantom Auto 4
#9535 Joseph Burke Forster — 4
#9535 Jonathan Lefors Switch Bulb Company 4
#9535 Abidur R. Chowdhury Apple 4
#9535 Max Christian Eulenstein Meta 4
#9535 Oren Raphael Unknown 4
#9535 Marissa Mary Montgomery Okta 4
#9535 Dan Alexandru Solomon Pagerduty 4
#9535 Emad Salman Salesforce 4
#9535 Ian Alexander Enders Pagerduty 4
#9535 Yuanjie Li L'Oreal 4
#9535 Zhiyuan Song L'Oreal 4
#9535 Celina Liao Capital One Services 4
#9535 Yongda Zheng Qingdao Pico Technology Co. 4
#9535 Siddharth Mishra Verizon 4
#9535 Arthur Bodolec Meta 4
#9535 Joerg C. Student — 4
#9535 Ian Serlin Shoutpoint 4
#9535 Rob Sweney Audi Ag 4
#9535 Eshita Shah Adobe 4
#9535 Grantland Lee Lim Chew Google 4
#9535 Michael Natkovich Oath 4
#9535 Manuel Jasso Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 4
#9535 Devon Copley Nokia Technologies Oy 4
#9535 Seth M. Blacher Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 4
#9535 Robin E. Mayes Roblox 4
#9535 Rebecca L. Herndon Roblox 4
#9535 Frederick G. M. Roeber Google 4
#9535 Erica L. Jackson Oric Pharmaceuticals 4
#9535 Siddharth Shankar Skillz Platform 4
#9535 Pingping Xiu Salesforce 4
#9535 Aditya Sakhuja Salesforce 4
#9535 Alex Paul Suraci Pivotal Software 4
#9535 Shekar Kesarimanglam Cisco 4
#9535 Ryan Wonmeng Apuy Apple 4
#9535 Willy Wu Dropbox 4

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