Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Sept 30, 2025

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 Genentech, J. David Gladstone Institutes, Lxr Biotechnology. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 12,101–12,150 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11477 Rebecca H. R. Ward Genentech 3
#11477 Martin Bigos J. David Gladstone Institutes 3
#11477 John G. Goddard Lxr Biotechnology 3
#11477 Bryan Gentry Spaulding 3
#11477 Leeann R. Austin University of California 3
#11477 Jayne B. Roderick Vulcan Patents 3
#11477 Louis F. Reichardt University of California 3
#11477 Ophelia K. Yip IBM 3
#11477 Leslie S. Caplan 3
#11477 John Close Demandtec 3
#11477 Luis Juarbe-Osorio Cephalon 3
#11477 Allan S. Pollock University of California 3
#11477 David J. Oldman Chevron 3
#11477 Derick Arippol 3
#11477 David Justin Rappaport Microsoft 3
#11477 Jacek Bogdan Jasinski University Of Louisville 3
#11477 Nathan Falk Uber Technologies 3
#11477 Andrea Claude Ramos Santos Lyft 3
#11477 Carla Gonzales Salesforce 3
#11477 Louis R. MIKOLAY Apple 3
#11477 Brendan J.D. Wade Zipline International 3
#11477 John Lee Samsara 3
#11477 Sameer Soi Included Health 3
#11477 David Martin Dohan Google 3
#11477 Naoya Makino Mercari 3
#11477 Minami Sueyasu Mercari 3
#11477 Bill Wurz Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#11477 Eun Joung Lyft 3
#11477 Chan Lek Tan Icahn School Of Medicine At Mount Sinai 3
#11477 Serge Kosche Lam Research 3
#11477 Matt Peddie Swift Navigation 3
#11477 Mayur Sanjaybhai Pipaliya Cisco 3
#11477 David A. Karol Apple 3
#11477 Federico Schwindt Fastly 3
#11477 Devin Matthews General Radar 3
#11477 Melissa Aaron Expensify 3
#11477 Nicholas Laurence ENGEL Dolby Laboratories Licensing 3
#11477 Raffi Aghapekian Juul Labs 3
#11477 Nicholas Achtien Juul Labs 3
#11477 Eric B. Hensley 3
#11477 Subrat Nayak 3
#11477 Utkarsh Jaiswal Samsara Networks 3
#11477 Erin Catherine Maryak Gray Lyft 3
#11477 Deanna Ettidale Alwafai Lyft 3
#11477 Yeshwanth Kumaraswamy Lyft 3
#11477 Londa Fiorella Overbeck Lyft 3
#11477 Cyril Francis Meyer, III Lyft 3
#11477 Brandon J. Kieft Apple 3
#11477 Dziyana Nikolaevna Klimovich Visa 3
#11477 Adam Binsz Apple 3

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