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

Showing 12,501–12,550 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11477 Christopher Matthew Haueter Cisco 3
#11477 Tien Nguyen Block 3
#11477 Ying Gross Broadcom 3
#11477 Adam Sannicandro Thermo Fisher 3
#11477 Benjamin Le Cun Uber Technologies 3
#11477 Eric N. Schulze Upside Foods 3
#11477 Amy Dressen Genentech 3
#11477 Cornelis Jacob Lekkerkerker General Motors 3
#11477 John Henton Salesforce 3
#11477 James Paul BROUGHTON Mammoth Biosciences 3
#11477 Olivier Wellmann Conviva 3
#11477 Kellen Mannion Visa 3
#11477 Graham McAlister Simpler Postage 3
#11477 Mark Douglas McGee Visa 3
#11477 Ryan James Glasgow Block 3
#11477 Erin Constantine Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#11477 Lauren G. Troxler Evalve 3
#11477 Bryan Klofas Sri International 3
#11477 Leon Tao Sri International 3
#11477 Alexander Glennon Shearer Zymergen 3
#11477 Gabriel Silk Dropbox 3
#11477 Ojus Abhimanyu Patil Meta 3
#11477 Eric P. Snowden Adobe 3
#11477 Matthew Miller Young Zoox 3
#11477 Frank K. F. Lee Apple 3
#11477 Ankit Brahmbhatt Meta 3
#11477 Gurnish Anand Servicenow 3
#11477 Maxim Bykov Wickr 3
#11477 Luke Boralsky WARF 3
#11477 Nelson Carpentier Orion Labs 3
#11477 Brian E. Goldberg Apple 3
#11477 Pasha Nahass Google 3
#11477 Khaled Tlais Visa 3
#11477 John McGuire Visa 3
#11477 Sean Tubbs Salesforce 3
#11477 William J. Salisbury Uber Technologies 3
#11477 Teemu Mattila Visa 3
#11477 Niels Gjertson Block 3
#11477 Yuning Woo Smule 3
#11477 Kate Sousa Adobe 3
#11477 Narek Asadorian Salesforce 3
#11477 Benjamin Schrom Google 3
#11477 Kevin Feng Jumio 3
#11477 Robert Austin Lee Reciprocal Labs 3
#11477 Daniel Meron Greenwald Etsy 3
#11477 Angela Liu Agilent Technologies 3
#11477 Vipul Modani Salesforce 3
#11477 Min Zheng Commscope Connectivity Uk Limited 3
#11477 Matthew Dominick Mahar Amazon 3
#11477 Vancheswaran Koduvayur Ananthanarayanan Zendesk 3

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