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 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., AMD, Whirlpool. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 11,501–11,550 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11477 Sreenath Sandru Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#11477 Shivani Singh Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#11477 Franklyn Shihyu Wu AMD 3
#11477 Ryan Ebstein Whirlpool 3
#11477 Amy Chong Zoox 3
#11477 Hendrik Thompson Noah Medical 3
#11477 Jesse Frost Patterson Tilia International 3
#11477 Jason Klofstad Neoseed Technology 3
#11477 Rameen Mahdavi Roku 3
#11477 Cory B. Marcus 3
#11477 John Eichenseer Interval Research 3
#11477 Beth K. Mosher Unknown 3
#11477 Eric Coates Hoefer Pharmacia Biotech 3
#11477 Victor Levchenko Gatefield 3
#11477 Lauren Kaufman 3
#11477 Chris N. Lenart Unknown 3
#11477 Paul B. Nahi Diamond Multimedia Systems 3
#11477 Jumana A. Muwafi Atmel 3
#11477 C. Bradford Hopper AMD 3
#11477 Jeff Wishnie Object Technology Licensing 3
#11477 Michael D. Lips Platinum Technology 3
#11477 Kenneth M. Hunter Canon 3
#11477 Timothy C. Meeker University of California 3
#11477 Charles Noval 3
#11477 Donald E. Ganem University of California 3
#11477 Brian Bueza 3
#11477 John Cowen Hashicorp 3
#11477 Alexandru Ionut Hodorogea Adobe 3
#11477 Andrew Nelson Bye Open Text 3
#11477 Nathan James Luquetta-Fish Microsoft 3
#11477 Sarah Fay Smith Google 3
#11477 Gary Brandeleer Salesforce 3
#11477 Gregg R. Napoli Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#11477 Carine P. Gursky Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#11477 Francisco Avila-Beltran Hover 3
#11477 Emily Benzie Gigagen 3
#11477 Kacy Stadtmiller Gigagen 3
#11477 Anusha Ramanujam Block 3
#11477 Jeremy Alexander Karp Lyft 3
#11477 Alan Davies Bae Systems Plc 3
#11477 Sai Lakshminaraayana Salesforce 3
#11477 Miranda Steele Pure Storage 3
#11477 Jacob S. Weiss Apple 3
#11477 Bradford Thorne University of California 3
#11477 Aaron Losey University of California 3
#11477 Sebastien Marineau-Mes Apple 3
#11477 Arjun Nayini Palantir Technologies 3
#11477 Murali krishna teja Kilari 3
#11477 Craig Stuart Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#11477 Ellen Stanfill Stripe 3

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