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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 Cisco, Amazon, Uber Technologies. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 12,401–12,450 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11477 Mark D. Longo — 3
#11477 John Moeses Ercia Bauan Cisco 3
#11477 Ian Michael Menzies Amazon 3
#11477 Hakan Robert Gultekin — 3
#11477 Audrey Lawrence Uber Technologies 3
#11477 Emrah Gultekin — 3
#11477 Adam Carmel — 3
#11477 Zachary Witte Caterpillar 3
#11477 Carly Robinson Salesforce 3
#11477 Nitin Kumar Passa General Motors 3
#11477 Jeffrey Shaw General Motors 3
#11477 Jin Seok Hwang Hanwha Powersystems Co. 3
#11477 Johan E. Lyon Apple 3
#11477 Yian Lo Salesforce 3
#11477 Usman Masood Stripe 3
#11477 Carl Jackson — 3
#11477 Kris Rudeegraap — 3
#11477 Michelle Palleschi — 3
#11477 Hetal Giaimo — 3
#11477 Anuradha Muralidharan Expensify 3
#11477 Roderick D. Bacon Apple 3
#11477 Eric L. Walstad — 3
#11477 Andrew Dickson Commonwealth Edison 3
#11477 Eli Schleifer Uber Technologies 3
#11477 Aurobind Ravichandran Zenpayroll 3
#11477 Brandon Anthony Scott Zenpayroll 3
#11477 Gregory Shunsuke Wilson Zenpayroll 3
#11477 Matthew Surjana Oey Zenpayroll 3
#11477 Kristof Hovaten Forsight Vision4 3
#11477 Samuel Ward Kortz Google 3
#11477 Jonathan De St Paer Charles Schwab & Co. 3
#11477 Marie A. Chandoha Charles Schwab & Co. 3
#11477 Saranya Konala General Motors 3
#11477 Farnaz Absalan Illumina 3
#11477 Rosa BARREIRA DA SILVA Institut National De La Sante Et De La Recherche Medicale (Inserm) 3
#11477 Bambi Tsui Fiserv 3
#11477 John Chirgwin University of California 3
#11477 Ramkrishna Soma Included Health 3
#11477 Deepta Bhattacharya Stanford University 3
#11477 Derek Macklin Included Health 3
#11477 Stéphane Adrien Joseph Maldini Pivotal Software 3
#11477 Samuel Mansen — 3
#11477 Oeyvind Sean Neverdal Kinsey Meta 3
#11477 Manqing Hong Nugen Technologies 3
#11477 Michael Balsamo Tesla 3
#11477 James Franklin Pivotal Systems 3
#11477 Aaron Newton Cloudera 3
#11477 Martha Deery Interactive Strength 3
#11477 Lisa Molz University of California 3
#11477 Prateek Janardhan Microsoft 3

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