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

Showing 11,851–11,900 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11477 Kaidi Xu Salesforce 3
#11477 Shanis Kurundrayil Salesforce 3
#11477 Theofanis Karaletsos Uber Technologies 3
#11477 Douglas Bemis Uber Technologies 3
#11477 Kaveh Moussakhani Google 3
#11477 Kirill Novitchenko Apple 3
#11477 John Ryan Crepezzi Block 3
#11477 Shayan Khoshmagham Iteris 3
#11477 Grant Kalasky Samsara 3
#11477 Jonathan Chei-Feung Lau Guard 3
#11477 Jena Dzitsiuk Hover 3
#11477 Louis Kenneth Dressel Wing Aviation 3
#11477 McKenna Morey General Motors 3
#11477 Konrad Gustav Miziolek Maplebear 3
#11477 Andrea Valentina SIMES Apple 3
#11477 Adam Jeremy Share Uber Technologies 3
#11477 Temitayo Fadelu Google 3
#11477 Nahida Badran Illumina 3
#11477 Max Novendstern Worldcoin Foundation 3
#11477 Tony Xiao Twilio 3
#11477 Chris Sperandio Twilio 3
#11477 Ilya Volodarsky Twilio 3
#11477 Calvin Patrick Henderson Roku 3
#11477 Eduardo Valencia Paz Apple 3
#11477 Joseph Grillo Dropbox 3
#11477 Kainoa Kwon-Perez Apple 3
#11477 Dylan Charles Urquidi-Maynard Unity Ipr Aps 3
#11477 Guozhen La General Motors 3
#11477 Laurence Gouttebel — 3
#11477 Nima Nikuie Microchip Technology Incorporated 3
#11477 Prosenjit Chatterjee NVIDIA 3
#11477 Nathan Slattengren Velodyne Lidar Usa 3
#11477 Zach Morriss Google 3
#11477 Christina Bogdan Climate 3
#11477 Guy-Baptiste Richard de Capele d'Hautpoul Lyft 3
#11477 Adithya Shricharan Srinivasa Rao Magic Leap 3
#11477 Alexa Nitzan Staley Rigetti & Co 3
#11477 Cody J. White Apple 3
#11477 Marina M. Chin Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#11477 Brennan Marshall Young Broadcom 3
#11477 Sindre Klepp Wing Aviation 3
#11477 Alexander Rashid Ansari Uatc 3
#11477 Lakshmaiah Brahmasani Lyft 3
#11477 Michael Simonian Wing Aviation 3
#11477 Manav Khurana Twilio 3
#11477 Tracy Patrick Chan Google 3
#11477 Eddy Gharbi Logitech Europe S.A. 3
#11477 Jeffrey Bazar — 3
#11477 Martine Darwish Genentech 3
#11477 Paola Heneine Chime Financial 3

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