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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 Applied Materials, Broadcom, Logitech Europe S.A.. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 12,301–12,350 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11477 Jonathan Germain Applied Materials 3
#11477 Rajeev BEHERA — 3
#11477 Mahendra Kumar Kutare Broadcom 3
#11477 Erick TAI — 3
#11477 John David Brock Logitech Europe S.A. 3
#11477 Ute Hoch Nektar Therapeutics 3
#11477 Scott Steber Nebia 3
#11477 Ace Shelander Nebia 3
#11477 John Raymond Apple Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#11477 Emilio Gomez Varela Nebia 3
#11477 Thomas Van Alsenoy — 3
#11477 Benjamin Tauber Google 3
#11477 Bret D. Lobree Seescan 3
#11477 Micah Wylde Sift Science 3
#11477 Ian Alexander Lindsay Microsoft 3
#11477 Jean-Michel Cala Micron 3
#11477 Timothy Kordas Inc Square, Co. 3
#11477 Vipul Vinod Thakur Google 3
#11477 Theodore James Summe Salesforce 3
#11477 Leonard Gestrin Salesforce 3
#11477 George Wen Su Salesforce 3
#11477 Brandon Svec Salesforce 3
#11477 John Pottebaum Meta 3
#11477 Luke D. Mastrangelo Intel 3
#11477 Cynthia Johanson Google 3
#11477 Oksen Baris Kla-Tencor 3
#11477 Navya Rehani Uber Technologies 3
#11477 Ian S.G. Kelly-Morgan Capacitor Sciences Incorporated 3
#11477 Andrew Michael Kawaja Ifs Industries 3
#11477 Sahin Habesoglu Zuora 3
#11477 Chase Mitchell — 3
#11477 Maosong Fu Twitter 3
#11477 Karthik Ramasamy Twitter 3
#11477 Govinda Keshavdas AMD 3
#11477 Zoheb I. Hajiyani Meta 3
#11477 Mary Ann Haile Meta 3
#11477 Michael Marcel William Watts Apple 3
#11477 Jeremy Evan Banford Oracle 3
#11477 George Comninos Adobe 3
#11477 Yann Corlay Meta 3
#11477 Thibault Vrevin Google 3
#11477 Christopher Eccles Chargepoint Technology Limited 3
#11477 Josh Berlin General Motors 3
#11477 Jonathon Staff General Motors 3
#11477 Stanley Shiao General Motors 3
#11477 Kenneth Arthur Abraham FERRY Apple 3
#11477 Shanay Ravin Kothari Cisco 3
#11477 Stefan Sullivan Smule 3
#11477 Michael Jason Simon Caes Systems 3
#11477 Michael R. Brennan Apple 3

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