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 Safegraph, University of California, Intuit. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 11,351–11,400 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#9535 Andrew Israel Safegraph 4
#9535 Paul C. Simpson, Jr. University of California 4
#9535 Robert Livingston Wickser, Jr. 4
#9535 Beth Goldman Intuit 4
#9535 Benjamin Hamme Palantir Technologies 4
#9535 Ginger Baker Visa 4
#9535 Chandra Nagaraja Unknown 4
#9535 Lambert J. Stumpel 4
#9535 Erik Petersen Intel 4
#9535 Nick Franchi Google 4
#9535 Michael Eriksen Sri International 4
#9535 Robert Saliba Google 4
#9535 Troy Evan Reynolds Gilead Sciences 4
#9535 James Boyd O'Connor 4
#9535 Stephen Severance PayPal 4
#9535 Dennis Hwang Niantic 4
#9535 Michael Reckhow Uber Technologies 4
#9535 Charles Ogilvie Virgin America 4
#9535 Deepti Srivastava Oracle 4
#9535 Shree Raman Broadcom 4
#9535 Sandrine Lebas Camelbak Products 4
#9535 Pavan Kumar Anasosalu Vasu Apple 4
#9535 William K. Devine The Travelers Indemnity 4
#9535 Stefan I. McDonough Amgen 4
#9535 Johannes Vlcek Exergyn 4
#9535 Tyler Rolan Corley Ebay 4
#9535 Kavoos Kolahdouzan Gilead Sciences 4
#9535 Gary T. Chou Cisco 4
#9535 Josh D. Williams Cisco 4
#9535 James S. Cassidy Gilead Sciences 4
#9535 Patrick Collison Stripe 4
#9535 Rick Liu Life-Link International 4
#9535 Julia Harter Toffey Meta 4
#9535 Baker Shogry Visa 4
#9535 John Vincent Fahy University of California 4
#9535 Vladimir Milosevic Coinbase 4
#9535 Kristen Lefevre Google 4
#9535 Martijn Paulus Richard van den Broeck Google 4
#9535 Patricio Arrangoiz Arriola Stanford University 4
#9535 Robert Blelloch University of California 4
#9535 Jia Li Acceleron Pharma 4
#9535 Jonathan Anders Lovegren Skydio 4
#9535 Siyu Zhao Csmc Technologies Fab2 Co. 4
#9535 Tanin Na Nakorn Stripe 4
#9535 Michael J. Martindale Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 4
#9535 Pavel Kolesnikov Gooddata 4
#9535 Maurice Mate Radalj IBM 4
#9535 Matthew E. Hart Oregon Health & Science University 4
#9535 Mizuki McGrath Google 4
#9535 Divya Hariharan Salesforce 4

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