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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 Apple, Salesforce, Charles R. Drew University Of Medicine And Science. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 12,251–12,300 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11477 Jacqueline Chang Apple 3
#11477 Andrew Sopko Salesforce 3
#11477 Theodore Friedman Charles R. Drew University Of Medicine And Science 3
#11477 Herve Utheza Comcast 3
#11477 Darren Lepke Comcast 3
#11477 Samuel Gosselin Apple 3
#11477 David Schreibman Atscale 3
#11477 Shaopeng Yuan University of California 3
#11477 Carly Lane Lodge Hipmunk 3
#11477 Garrett Held Rapid7 3
#11477 Louis Eisenberg Meta 3
#11477 Daniel Stephen Padgett Google 3
#11477 Paul M. Saab Meta 3
#11477 Nicholas Franchi Google 3
#11477 Shayne Ingham Visa 3
#11477 James H. Riley Creator 3
#11477 Nima Haddadkaveh Cisco 3
#11477 Antoni Choudhuri Roblox 3
#11477 Hariharasudhan Chirra Dinakar University of California 3
#11477 Cade B. Fox University of California 3
#11477 Ian Maxwell Horn Swift Navigation 3
#11477 Daniel Corin Accenture Global Solutions Limited 3
#11477 Anthony Roberts Twitter 3
#11477 Suresh Toby Segaran Google 3
#11477 Anthony Reyes HP 3
#11477 Patrick C. McCarthy AMD 3
#11477 Stephanie Lee — 3
#11477 Matthew Zane Schwartz — 3
#11477 Stephen Lynn — 3
#11477 Ario Jafarzadeh — 3
#11477 Benjamin J H Wong — 3
#11477 Cormac Eubanks — 3
#11477 Chace Francis Medeiros — 3
#11477 Bee Jay Malveda Murallon — 3
#11477 Tullie Murrell Meta 3
#11477 Steven Kish Meta 3
#11477 Scott Lessans — 3
#11477 Charles W. Moyes, III — 3
#11477 Daniel Jacob Reiss — 3
#11477 Michele Campeotto Apple 3
#11477 Christopher Struhar Meta 3
#11477 James R. Watkins, III Microsoft 3
#11477 Andrey Yegorov Salesforce 3
#11477 Toby Gabriner Opus Deli 3
#11477 Nadia R. Roan Harvard University 3
#11477 Philipp Antoni Stripe 3
#11477 Matthew Work Roll Forming 3
#11477 Shawn Grening Glide Talk 3
#11477 Melody L. Rutherford Visa 3
#11477 Trevor Ford Meta 3

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