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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 Microsoft, Voyomotive, Meta. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 11,251–11,300 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#9535 Siddharth Banothu Microsoft 4
#9535 Peter Yorke Voyomotive 4
#9535 Youssef Ahres Meta 4
#9535 Nicholas Wood Allen Charcoal Companion Limited 4
#9535 Prateek Reddy Google 4
#9535 Helen Ogbazion Gabregiorgish GE 4
#9535 Robert R. Graham Genentech 4
#9535 Sophia Huang Block 4
#9535 Eric Carl Ertmann Meta 4
#9535 Venu Andra Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 4
#9535 Erik Hope Dropbox 4
#9535 Aaron K. Forth Ebay 4
#9535 Alexander Gyenes Agilent Technologies 4
#9535 Alexander Nicholas Johnson Salesforce 4
#9535 Jeffrey R. Rauch Accenture Global Services Limited 4
#9535 Mari Sheibley Meta 4
#9535 Jochen Roth Pubnub 4
#9535 Sachi Shah Palantir Technologies 4
#9535 Amir Borna Moogsoft 4
#9535 Beatrice Tien-Yi Wang Igm Biosciences 4
#9535 Mike Ortman Atlassian Pty 4
#9535 Florian Bastianelli Salesforce 4
#9535 Shivnag Kilaru Salesforce 4
#9535 James Stenoish Oracle 4
#9535 Eric Scrivner Coinbase 4
#9535 Ryan Duane Boyd Groupon 4
#9535 Jason Yosinski Uber Technologies 4
#9535 Vincent P. Le Novartis Vaccines And Diagnostics 4
#9535 Anshul Verma — 4
#9535 Jared Kim Ifwe 4
#9535 Terence Lup-ho Kwan Access Business Group International 4
#9535 Diana Willow Greenberg Smiths Medical Asd 4
#9535 Ananda Shah Cisco 4
#9535 Kyle Hansen Compugen 4
#9535 Andrew Turner Kriebel Accenture Global Solutions Limited 4
#9535 Yu-Liang Hsu Dropbox 4
#9535 Ketan Anjaria Microsoft 4
#9535 Dane A. Johnson Vibrynt 4
#9535 I Wei Lai Apple 4
#9535 Sara Yael Glick Google 4
#9535 Thomas Piscitell, III Sumo Logic 4
#9535 Tony Yu Asia Optical Co. 4
#9535 Katherine Krumme Climate 4
#9535 John E. Mendelson — 4
#9535 Danielle Lee Deibler Adobe 4
#9535 Togan Adrien Olczak Thumbtack 4
#9535 Nicholas Robertson Hunter Sony 4
#9535 Randall Cole Luecke Google 4
#9535 Jijo Raphael Jose Amazon 4
#9535 Shaun E. Buckley Biogen Idec Ma 4

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