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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 Crave Innovations, Apple, Accenture Global Solutions Limited. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 12,151–12,200 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11477 Calvin Fung Crave Innovations 3
#11477 Benjamin Guild Apple 3
#11477 Raj Ramalingam Accenture Global Solutions Limited 3
#11477 Eric John Geusz Apple 3
#11477 Ryan Gannon Cisco 3
#11477 Stephen W. Jaycox — 3
#11477 Linda Zhang Adobe 3
#11477 Sawyer Hood Adobe 3
#11477 Corten Singer — 3
#11477 Tyler Jon Ewing Apple 3
#11477 Nikil Pancha Pinterest 3
#11477 Igor Canadi — 3
#11477 Erick Ingleby Forescout Technologies 3
#11477 Ramesh N. Tejavath Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#11477 Rohan Anil Google 3
#11477 Iris Chan Genentech 3
#11477 Gordon Bray Genentech 3
#11477 Alice Au Quan Google 3
#11477 Darren Platt Amyris 3
#11477 Shaun Meehan Charm Industrial 3
#11477 Paul Jamtgaard Glydways 3
#11477 Max Yuen Stanford University 3
#11477 Cameron Blume Google 3
#11477 Jonathan Daniel Briend Nuvasive 3
#11477 Shahab Mortezaei Abb Vie 3
#11477 Gary S. Bauer Unknown 3
#11477 Laura ROBERTSON Capital One Services 3
#11477 Leena Kumari Prasad Cyclerion Therapeutics 3
#11477 Henry Chang Bristol-Myers Squibb 3
#11477 Daniel Mulreany The Johns Hopkins University 3
#11477 Kristin Jamieson — 3
#11477 Diana Cherbavaz Genomic Health 3
#11477 Julia A. Wolinsky Salesforce 3
#11477 Travis Lull Twitter 3
#11477 Tom Larson Twitter 3
#11477 Wenchang Zhou Twitter 3
#11477 Bill Darrow Twitter 3
#11477 Derek Hammer Inc Square, Co. 3
#11477 Chris Vale Cisco 3
#11477 Andrew Bellay Myriad Sensors 3
#11477 Nicholas Bonardi Ubisoft Entertainment 3
#11477 Naomi Higo Ubisoft Entertainment 3
#11477 Jack Hirsch Box 3
#11477 Zachary Ian Howard Meta 3
#11477 Sirisha Pillalamarri Apple 3
#11477 Priscila K. Penha Citrix Systems 3
#11477 Edouard Picot Salesforce 3
#11477 John N. Gardi Medtronic 3
#11477 Adrian M. Ledda Microsoft 3
#11477 Joshua Ryan Lauer Meta 3

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