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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 Gopro, Reciprocal Labs, Phynexus. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 12,601–12,650 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11477 Stephen B. Schmidt Gopro 3
#11477 Chris Hogg Reciprocal Labs 3
#11477 Jonathan Michael Grambow Phynexus 3
#11477 Kunal Deshpande Hewlett Packard Enterprise 3
#11477 Patrik Tommy Petersson Lock & Lock Co. 3
#11477 Pablo Velazquez Hernandez Lock & Lock Co. 3
#11477 Robin Paul Hansen Unknown 3
#11477 Gorav Arora Thales Dis Cpl Usa 3
#11477 Vasileios Lakafosis Uber Technologies 3
#11477 Evan Hahn PayPal 3
#11477 Rick Muñoz Salesforce 3
#11477 Amos Schallich A9.Com 3
#11477 Huned Botee Workday 3
#11477 David Xu Dignity Health 3
#11477 Kiryl Lashuk Twitter 3
#11477 Lilia Gutnik Dr Holdco 2 3
#11477 Veena Basavaraj Microsoft 3
#11477 Markus te Grotenhuis Atlassian Pty 3
#11477 Carrie Eaton Fishsix Rc 3
#11477 Geoffrey Wagner Skow Ingenio 3
#11477 Volodymyr Zhabuik Twitter 3
#11477 Yan GUO Microsoft 3
#11477 Ajeet Grewal Twitter 3
#11477 Scott Tong Aebeze Labs 3
#11477 Akin Dirik Informatica 3
#11477 Jack Knoebber Spark Grills 3
#11477 John Frederick Thye — 3
#11477 Sage Bray Strongmail Systems 3
#11477 Parag Ladhawala Google 3
#11477 Karany Nhim Bell Sports 3
#11477 Christophe François Chu Google 3
#11477 Sheryl Soo X Development 3
#11477 Andrew Nartker Google 3
#11477 Howard Herrera Hatch Transformers 3
#11477 Erik Eisermann Guerra Intel 3
#11477 Ian Michael Goldstein Salesforce 3
#11477 Max Sadrieh Verizon 3
#11477 Dia Kharrat Verizon 3
#11477 Vikas Unnava Verizon 3
#11477 Urvee Desai Bio-Rad Laboratories 3
#11477 Baran S. Nohutcuoglu Microsoft 3
#11477 Susan D. Bromley Calithera Biosciences 3
#11477 Amory B. SCHLENDER Coursera 3
#11477 Niall Wells — 3
#11477 Matthew Dalcin Google 3
#11477 Ryan King Meta 3
#11477 John A. Lynch Planet Products 3
#11477 Flavio Mattos de Carvalho Meta 3
#11477 Anna Putnam Citicorp Credit Services, Inc. (Usa) 3
#11477 Eugene Abovsky — 3

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