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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 Key Technology, Bio-Rad Laboratories, Formagrid. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 11,651–11,700 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11477 Thomas C. Madsen Key Technology 3
#11477 Cindy C T Wan Bio-Rad Laboratories 3
#11477 Nenya Edjah Formagrid 3
#11477 Sharada Venkateswaran Intel 3
#11477 Yehonatan Ernest Friedman — 3
#11477 Rajit Shinh Apple 3
#11477 Benjamin Lichtner Headspin 3
#11477 Erland Stevens Viking Therapeutics 3
#11477 Adam Weber Ironclad 3
#11477 Jason Turpin Aqua-Lung America 3
#11477 Chris Dudziak — 3
#11477 Paul Hamera Coinbase 3
#11477 Shinwon Kang Intel 3
#11477 Hannah Dubin Samsara 3
#11477 Kirstin Elizabeth Aschbacher Oura Health Oy 3
#11477 Jacob Edison Uber Technologies 3
#11477 Juan Pemberthy Uber Technologies 3
#11477 En Yu Uber Technologies 3
#11477 Alexander David Savello Amazon 3
#11477 Erik Thomas Jorgensen Pax Labs 3
#11477 Joefrey S. Kibuule Apple 3
#11477 Alexa VanHattum Apple 3
#11477 Arvind Santhanaraman Visa 3
#11477 Jon Belkowitz Salesforce 3
#11477 Rodrigo TOSTE GOMES Singlestore 3
#11477 Joseph VICTOR Singlestore 3
#11477 Lily Vittayarukskul — 3
#11477 Esther L. Yuh University of California 3
#11477 Pratik Mukherjee University of California 3
#11477 Ethan Holly Google 3
#11477 Christoph Lassner Meta 3
#11477 Angel Jeremy PEREZ ROSILLO Intuitive Surgical 3
#11477 Jonathan Gomez Garcia HP 3
#11477 John Oberbeck Google 3
#11477 Zachary T. Friedland Apple 3
#11477 Steven Jacobs Unknown 3
#11477 Armin Ajami Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#11477 Michael Breymann Disney 3
#11477 Riley Ennis Freenome Holdings 3
#11477 Prashanthi Sudhakar Tyco Fire & Security Gmbh 3
#11477 Alexander Rosenberg Johansen Salesforce 3
#11477 Henry Tsai Sap Se 3
#11477 Agustina Sartori — 3
#11477 Walter Schenk Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#11477 Arie Ozarov Google 3
#11477 Marion M. Hsieh Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#11477 Alok Puranik Discord 3
#11477 Francisco Avila Hover 3
#11477 Lucas Crane Hover 3
#11477 Hoeteck Wee Ntt Research 3

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