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

Showing 11,751–11,800 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11477 Harel Sheniak Lyft 3
#11477 Tyson Winfield Mote Twilio 3
#11477 Mikhail Bosin Uber Technologies 3
#11477 Frank J. Freedman Sybron 3
#11477 Eric Hermann Maplebear 3
#11477 Nicholas H. Flanders Twelve Benefit 3
#11477 Yongxing Deng Salesforce 3
#11477 Aron Kale Salesforce 3
#11477 Andre Gatti Tile 3
#11477 Vihan Jain Google 3
#11477 Sheide Chammas Google 3
#11477 Cameron Feenstra People.Ai 3
#11477 Yangxue Zhou Bolt Financial 3
#11477 Gregory Richard Greiner Bolt Financial 3
#11477 Noman Rangwala Lumileds 3
#11477 Courtney Dianne Moffett Tate & Lyle Solutions Usa 3
#11477 Hersh Bhargava Howard Hughes Medical Institute 3
#11477 Evan Alexander Dewhirst — 3
#11477 Jakub Siwak Dolby Laboratories Licensing 3
#11477 Lior Ben-Yehoshua Apple 3
#11477 Hung Yui Lo Neutron Holdings 3
#11477 Alison Sloga Mark Anthony International Srl 3
#11477 Cristina Joelle Cordova Stripe 3
#11477 Scott Johnston Zipline International 3
#11477 Tristan Semmelhack Zipline International 3
#11477 Steve Blackmon Microsoft 3
#11477 Donald Stayner Uber Technologies 3
#11477 Jake Hurley Uber Technologies 3
#11477 Nikhil Dua Uber Technologies 3
#11477 Lena Mary Houlihan Dignity Health 3
#11477 Ian Eric Esten Dolby Laboratories Licensing 3
#11477 Aldo Francisco Castaneda — 3
#11477 Dongsan Min Google 3
#11477 Amy E. Gilbert Cell Design Labs 3
#11477 Mark Irving Rigel Pharmaceuticals 3
#11477 Rushil Goel Samsara 3
#11477 Kenji Bowers Ample 3
#11477 Jakob Robert Zwiener Google 3
#11477 Amisha Sisodiya Visa 3
#11477 Amy Dawson Visa 3
#11477 Jorge Andre Torres Perez Palacios Visa 3
#11477 Elianna Starr Visa 3
#11477 Joel Templin Retail Royalty 3
#11477 Gaby Brink Retail Royalty 3
#11477 Mikhail Mineyev Accuimage Diagnostics 3
#11477 Dan Erlanson Sunesis Pharmaceuticals 3
#11477 Mark Duncan Sharper Image 3
#11477 Victoria Slaker Inverness Medical Limited 3
#11477 Ramanujan Hegde University of California 3
#11477 Dana Robert Nicholson Avery Dennison 3

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