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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 Skydio, Adobe, Chime Financial. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 12,001–12,050 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11477 Dana Livonia Contreras Skydio 3
#11477 Lucas Palage Doyle Skydio 3
#11477 Nishant Rai Adobe 3
#11477 Dennis Jiang Chime Financial 3
#11477 Naren Raghavan Docusign 3
#11477 Eldon Rivers Block 3
#11477 David Michelson Atlassian Pty 3
#11477 Jascha Narain Sohl-Dickstein Google 3
#11477 Richard Song Block 3
#11477 Bryan D. Power Block 3
#11477 Olivia Yu Gu Workday 3
#11477 Barbara Marie Cosgrove Workday 3
#11477 Anne-Claire Elisabeth Marie Le Henaff Zoox 3
#11477 Robert David Martinez Sram 3
#11477 Casey Takahashi Samsara 3
#11477 Natalia Baryshnikova Atlassian Pty 3
#11477 John Gagnon Pact Pharma 3
#11477 Henry C. Nguyen — 3
#11477 Alexandre Da Veiga Apple 3
#11477 Anjan Katta — 3
#11477 Alex J. Tom Applied Materials 3
#11477 Eric Alexander Daimler — 3
#11477 Jade Daniels — 3
#11477 Alison Darcy — 3
#11477 Nicholas Trank AMD 3
#11477 Al Cook Twilio 3
#11477 Jon Shlens Google 3
#11477 Luke Martin Hansen Zoox 3
#11477 Joshua Kim Spartus 3
#11477 Trevor Fast — 3
#11477 Ramesh Satram Imperial Usa 3
#11477 Lee Cunliffe Block 3
#11477 Jordan Sanches Linamar 3
#11477 Haley Most Cloudera 3
#11477 Mark Tobenkin Zitara Technologies 3
#11477 Vinay Awasthi Intel 3
#11477 Lorenzo David Confluent 3
#11477 Jacob Franklin Hanger Pinterest 3
#11477 Edna Segal Telespree Communications 3
#11477 Thomas Stout Exelixis 3
#11477 Kenneth A. Maher Cypress Semiconductor 3
#11477 Mark A. Wanthal Landec 3
#11477 Kaynam Chun Ampex 3
#11477 Tyler A. Palmer Mds Sciex 3
#11477 Margaret Gotuaco Applied Materials 3
#11477 Girish Pancha Informatica 3
#11477 Paul Dourish Xerox 3
#11477 Matthew J. Parzych Cellco Partnership 3
#11477 Fred Sugihwo Agilent Technologies 3
#11477 John S. Bowers University of California 3

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