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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 Maplebear, Niantic, Formfactor Beaverton. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 11,601–11,650 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11477 Aditya Godbole Maplebear 3
#11477 Alvin Portillo Niantic 3
#11477 Eric Wilcox Formfactor Beaverton 3
#11477 Srinivas Rao Fyusion 3
#11477 Ajay Shekar Rubrik 3
#11477 Mayank Manesh Makwana Lyft 3
#11477 Jin Huang Aktana 3
#11477 David Ding-Jia Xue Pinterest 3
#11477 Marshall Dickens Haltom Nuro 3
#11477 Galen Paul Shearn-Nance Gilead Sciences 3
#11477 Achal D. Dave Google 3
#11477 Amanda Jacklyn Grace Sinrod — 3
#11477 Elaine Evelina Tseng University of California 3
#11477 Maddison Kylie Gurrola — 3
#11477 Ali Nejatbakhsh Azadani Colorado Seminary Which Owns And Operates The University Of Denver 3
#11477 Jeffrey Mark Harris Genentech 3
#11477 Leah Muller Intuitive Surgical 3
#11477 Michael Manapat Stripe 3
#11477 Mike Towber Stripe 3
#11477 Regina Ruby Lee Clewlow — 3
#11477 Anuj Bheda Salesforce 3
#11477 Dorothy Sze-Wing Cheung Genentech 3
#11477 Thomas Consolazio Google 3
#11477 Blaine Rister Sambanova Systems 3
#11477 David del Villar Fernandez Apple 3
#11477 Jonathan Livni Google 3
#11477 Jeff Cornman Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#11477 Indiana Strombom Genentech 3
#11477 Rich Lowenberg Flow Neuroscience 3
#11477 Shawn Razek Flow Neuroscience 3
#11477 Raymond Carino Google 3
#11477 Timothy M. Acker Emory University 3
#11477 Niccolo Terrando Duke University 3
#11477 Anh Minh Dinh Samsung 3
#11477 Olga Tikhonova IBM 3
#11477 Adriana Olmos Antillon Google 3
#11477 Alfred Kuo US Dept of Veterans Affairs 3
#11477 Ruslan Alfridovich Abdikeev Google 3
#11477 Janet Komatsu Medtronic 3
#11477 Dat Chu Mark Andy 3
#11477 Andre Liang Cornman Google 3
#11477 Filip Iliev Murata Manufacturing Co. 3
#11477 Rolando Willcox Esparza Google 3
#11477 Nicola Marcantonio Gracenote 3
#11477 Madeline Folkerts Verily Life Sciences 3
#11477 Arnau FRANCI RODON Magic Leap 3
#11477 Lin Pan Genentech 3
#11477 Olivia Grace Google 3
#11477 Namkyung Lee University of California 3
#11477 Scott A. Whitman Lunar Energy 3

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