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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 Allergen, Avid Technology, The Taylor Group. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 11,951–12,000 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11477 Vera K. Byers Allergen 3
#11477 Joshua Morenstein Avid Technology 3
#11477 James A. Schuyler The Taylor Group 3
#11477 Randy Pon Space Systems/Loral 3
#11477 Stephen B. Tom Xerox 3
#11477 Adam Kyle Barry Microsoft 3
#11477 TaChung Huang Apple 3
#11477 Munnamgi S. Reddi Apple 3
#11477 Christopher O. Tracy Apple 3
#11477 Mitchel A. Pergola Directv 3
#11477 Andrew Howarth Posco Co. 3
#11477 Marcy K. Vallone Rigel Pharmaceuticals 3
#11477 Peter Richards Texas Instruments 3
#11477 Graham Gelwicks Veeva Systems 3
#11477 Amey Farde Sift Science 3
#11477 Sergi Isasi Cloudflare 3
#11477 Dina Kozlov Cloudflare 3
#11477 Della Shea Roam Robotics 3
#11477 Anika Raghuvanshi Coinbase 3
#11477 Nicole Fish Salesforce 3
#11477 Mateusz Marcinowski Msg Entertainment Group 3
#11477 Michael L Richards Amazon 3
#11477 Hsiao-Ching Chang Pinterest 3
#11477 Vasuki Narasimha Swamy Qualcomm 3
#11477 Allison Tiffany Tse Auris Health 3
#11477 Kristen Spilman Airbnb 3
#11477 Robert G. Stricko, III Intuitive Surgical 3
#11477 Nicholas Reid Pano Ai 3
#11477 Joseph Gomez — 3
#11477 Christine Rein Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#11477 Teresa Shock University of California 3
#11477 Saqi Mehta Block 3
#11477 Stephanie Snyder Block 3
#11477 Grace Chin Pinterest 3
#11477 Liam Gallagher Zoox 3
#11477 Devina Jain General Motors 3
#11477 Simao Herdade Yahoo Assets 3
#11477 Jennifer van Dam Grammarly 3
#11477 Fred Simon Google 3
#11477 William Miles Miller Snap 3
#11477 Matthew Albert Insitro 3
#11477 Naresh VANKAYALAPATI Natera 3
#11477 Jennifer Ellen Fernquist Seth Google 3
#11477 Victor Robertson General Motors 3
#11477 Hao Yi Ong Lyft 3
#11477 Tonia Hsia Samsara 3
#11477 Oliver Song Samsara 3
#11477 Greg Chiocco Climate 3
#11477 Nicholas Semansky General Motors 3
#11477 Vincent P. Kee General Motors 3

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