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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 Uber Technologies, Standard Cognition, Roblox. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 11,701–11,750 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11477 Michael Charles Albada Uber Technologies 3
#11477 Luis Yoichi MORALES SAIKI Standard Cognition 3
#11477 Andrew Li Roblox 3
#11477 Puneet Puri HP 3
#11477 Andrew Nam Accenture Global Solutions Limited 3
#11477 Stephen John Clohset Imagination Technologies Limited 3
#11477 Bhairavi Tolani University of California 3
#11477 Beaudry Kock Ford 3
#11477 Duke Chung U.S. Bank National Association 3
#11477 Simon Khalaf Oath 3
#11477 Kathryn Lee Smith Google 3
#11477 Faya Peng Cisco 3
#11477 Judy Yi-Chun Hsieh Pinterest 3
#11477 Abhijit Bare Salesforce 3
#11477 Avinash Kumar Arista Networks 3
#11477 Tor Aksel Notland Heirung AMD 3
#11477 Vladimir Charnauski Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#11477 Jordi Paris Ferrer Dropbox 3
#11477 Ilya Ozerets Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#11477 Shanti Tandukar Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#11477 Mariam Alexanian Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#11477 Ben Sklaroff — 3
#11477 Graham Adeson Maplebear 3
#11477 Frances Meng Wang Topgolf International 3
#11477 Jiayun He Visa 3
#11477 Erin Kavanaugh Stripe 3
#11477 Steven Edouard Stripe 3
#11477 Andrew Qin Stripe 3
#11477 Constantine Gerasimovich Zum Services 3
#11477 Rajagopal Iyengar Oracle 3
#11477 Rick Hubertus Nicolas Curvers Carbon 3
#11477 Bradley Matthew Solliday Skydio 3
#11477 Aaron Christopher Miller Skydio 3
#11477 Phil Lembkey — 3
#11477 Behnam Hedayatnia Amazon 3
#11477 Mahdi Namazifar Uber Technologies 3
#11477 Amanda Newlin Pearson Education 3
#11477 Trevor Gale Google 3
#11477 John Unkovic Chef Robotics 3
#11477 James Nicholas Pazzi Airbnb 3
#11477 Erin Rainaldi Verily Life Sciences 3
#11477 Arkesh Jagdish Patel Lyft 3
#11477 Rex See Chun Lam Lyft 3
#11477 Philippe Sekine Uber Technologies 3
#11477 John Z. Li Grammarly 3
#11477 Glenn Jaume Grammarly 3
#11477 Spencer Chang Grammarly 3
#11477 Jonathan L. Goldman Grammarly 3
#11477 Oleg Vaskevich Grammarly 3
#11477 Adam Ginzberg Grammarly 3

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