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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 Pacific Gas And Electric, Lyft, Oracle. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 12,451–12,500 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11477 Eric Michael Schoenman Pacific Gas And Electric 3
#11477 Nathan McDavitt-Van Fleet Lyft 3
#11477 Jared Adams — 3
#11477 Hussain Abbas Oracle 3
#11477 Fangzi Huang Salesforce 3
#11477 Diana Maria Pojar Salesforce 3
#11477 Jeffrey M. Quackenbush Juul Labs 3
#11477 Taddeo Zacchini Google 3
#11477 Jane R. Kubera Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#11477 Michael Alan Balsam Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#11477 Joshua Brewer Twitter 3
#11477 Sachin Nanda Dolby Laboratories Licensing 3
#11477 Tobias H. Casab University of California 3
#11477 Maxime Daud University of California 3
#11477 Maxime D. Rappaport University of California 3
#11477 Molly Glauberman Google 3
#11477 Christian Almenar Broadcom 3
#11477 Devon Rifkin Broadcom 3
#11477 John Ashenden Apple 3
#11477 Steve Owen Spark Grills 3
#11477 Jennifer M. Hinkel — 3
#11477 Joao Antunes Thousandeyes 3
#11477 Adam Fritzler Planet Labs 3
#11477 Stacy Nicole London Atlassian Pty 3
#11477 Jojo De Vera Cuenca — 3
#11477 Max Andaker Datadog 3
#11477 William MONTEITH Alector 3
#11477 Hafez Charles Janssens JPMorgan Chase 3
#11477 Vladimir Gerasimov Salesforce 3
#11477 Philip Lawrence Brown Cisco 3
#11477 David P. Perner Apple 3
#11477 Jeffrey McAlvay — 3
#11477 Shashank Samala — 3
#11477 Jonas Neubert — 3
#11477 Tomer Y. Doron Apple 3
#11477 Shannon Lincoln — 3
#11477 Nandeesh Channabasappa Rajashekar — 3
#11477 Warren Templeton Health2047 3
#11477 Massimo Maietti Zynga 3
#11477 Olivier Alain Pierre Notteghem Meta 3
#11477 Laksh Venka Salesforce 3
#11477 Andrew Sean Yang Dropbox 3
#11477 Waseem Alshikh — 3
#11477 Matthew Allen Gordon Figure Eight Technologies 3
#11477 Suyash Sonwalkar Twitter 3
#11477 Joseph Richard Cloughley Figure Eight Technologies 3
#11477 Bradley P. Robinson Salesforce 3
#11477 Joe Boswell Thermavant Technologies 3
#11477 Marc Herwin De Groot Virtual I/O 3
#11477 Freeman Lan University of California 3

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