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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, Apple, Addepar. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 12,201–12,250 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11477 Pranav Suresh Shah Salesforce 3
#11477 Kaspar Fischer Apple 3
#11477 Stanley E. Roberts Apple 3
#11477 Christopher Thomas Bisignani Addepar 3
#11477 Adam C. French Neodyne Biosciences 3
#11477 Ari Tulla Nokia Technologies Oy 3
#11477 Marco Huerta Visa 3
#11477 Kai Mildenberger IBM 3
#11477 Joseph O'Brien Capital One Services 3
#11477 Enrica Maria Filippi Amazon 3
#11477 Heather Mehle Shapiro Google 3
#11477 Thomas Keeney Appdynamics 3
#11477 Liyan Miao Applied Materials 3
#11477 Jane Leibrock Meta 3
#11477 Rachel Margaret Wong Meta 3
#11477 Matt Broussard Dropbox 3
#11477 Syed Zayd Enam Cresta Intelligence 3
#11477 Navjot Matharu Cresta Intelligence 3
#11477 Alexander Donald Roe Cresta Intelligence 3
#11477 Oliver Marsh — 3
#11477 Michael James Ahiakpor Microsoft 3
#11477 Paul M. Midgen Microsoft 3
#11477 Brent Moellenberg — 3
#11477 Joseph L. DeRisi University of California 3
#11477 Jeff C. JENSEN Creator 3
#11477 Paulo Blikstein Google 3
#11477 Nicholas Inzucchi Google 3
#11477 Dimitry Govrilov Anchorfree 3
#11477 Tyler Kovacs Inc Square, Co. 3
#11477 Alfonso D'Alessandro Medtronic 3
#11477 Julien Oster Apple 3
#11477 Taylor A. Kelly Apple 3
#11477 Josiah Boning Dropbox 3
#11477 Brandon Naraghi — 3
#11477 Sidhartha Andrew Palani Microsoft 3
#11477 Xavier Helgesen — 3
#11477 Christopher Russell LaRosa Google 3
#11477 Sivesh Thangarajah Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#11477 Dioselin Alejandra Gonzalez Rosillo Unity Ipr Aps 3
#11477 Sarath Kumar Sankaran Kutty Riverbed Technology 3
#11477 Joyu Wu Riverbed Technology 3
#11477 Gabriel Levy Riverbed Technology 3
#11477 Luca Niccolini Riverbed Technology 3
#11477 Devanath Srinivasa Riverbed Technology 3
#11477 Perry Chan — 3
#11477 Avaneesh Desai Salesforce 3
#11477 Benjamin Hartard Inc Square, Co. 3
#11477 JOHN T. DOLAN Oracle 3
#11477 Luke Parham Fyusion 3
#11477 Sam Maurer Siluria Technologies 3

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