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

Showing 11,551–11,600 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11477 Noam Samuel Stripe 3
#11477 Samuel B. Martin Department Of Energy 3
#11477 Ken C. Kiernan Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#11477 Randall Porter Dignity Health 3
#11477 Krishna Ramamurthi Hologic 3
#11477 Domagoj Baricevic Dolby Laboratories Licensing 3
#11477 Karan M. DARYANANI Apple 3
#11477 Stephen J. Hansen — 3
#11477 Achille Verheye Graymatter Robotics 3
#11477 Ashis Ghosh Christie Digital Systems Usa 3
#11477 Wegene H. Tadele Apple 3
#11477 Mike Zhang Superfeet Worldwide 3
#11477 Jordan Michael Croom General Motors 3
#11477 Patricio Arrangoiz Arriola Amazon 3
#11477 Damon Chin Airbnb 3
#11477 Mehrnaz Rouhi Youssefi Apple 3
#11477 Robert P. St. Onge Stanford University 3
#11477 Daniel Steven TEMPLETON Dolby Laboratories Licensing 3
#11477 John Hass Apple 3
#11477 Gregoire Pean Netflix 3
#11477 Nicolas Crowell Google 3
#11477 Marcus Gartner Lob.Com 3
#11477 Jason Kirst Sap Se 3
#11477 Sebastian Brinkmann Weidmüller Interface Gmbh & Co. Kg And Ph 3
#11477 Curtis Hawthorne Google 3
#11477 Andrea Larsen Amazon 3
#11477 William Robert Pentney Amplitude 3
#11477 Tomasz Debicki Maplebear 3
#11477 Jesse Posner Coinbase 3
#11477 Jeffrey R. Willis Angiodynamics 3
#11477 David Fain General Motors 3
#11477 Theodore Leclere Stryker 3
#11477 Brian Joseph Gormley — 3
#11477 Jay T. Groves Stanford University 3
#11477 Jack Stepanian General Motors 3
#11477 Vineet Gopal Palantir Technologies 3
#11477 Rohaan Advani Intertrust Technologies 3
#11477 Allegra Fisher Apple 3
#11477 Jordan Allen Buettner Uber Technologies 3
#11477 Rafiq Raziuddin Merchant Uber Technologies 3
#11477 Alexander Galitskiy — 3
#11477 Sean Cashin Maplebear 3
#11477 Zack Stephanchick Ags 3
#11477 Bo Yoon Apple 3
#11477 Cristian Matias Sepulveda Groupon 3
#11477 Joshua Isaac Zloof Groupon 3
#11477 Ryan Buck Apple 3
#11477 Harrison Chen-Hau Chu Lyft 3
#11477 Christina Jackson Lightforce Orthodontics 3
#11477 Devinne Cullinane Apple 3

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