Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Sept 30, 2025

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

Showing 12,701–12,750 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11477 Patrick H. Kelly Apple 3
#11477 Okke Joost Schrijvers Amazon 3
#11477 Rodrigo Davies Asana 3
#11477 Yujian Yao Asana 3
#11477 Wyman Yu Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#11477 Paul Vinuelas Simpler Postage 3
#11477 Ryan Orbuch Stripe 3
#11477 Kevin Ciocia Aperia Technologies 3
#11477 David R. Wegman Bmc Software 3
#11477 Lennie Sliwinski 3
#11477 Farid Aliev 3
#11477 Samuel Zachary Scott 3
#11477 Laura Dotson Pivot Health Technologies 3
#11477 Camille Gaspard Cisco 3
#11477 Thomas R. Guieu Tanium 3
#11477 Lucas Doyle Samsara 3
#11477 Naoki Takasaka University of California 3
#11477 Shenping Wu University of California 3
#11477 Michelle Chen Multiply Labs 3
#11477 Megan A. DesPlanques Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#11477 Richard Eiel Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#11477 Kim Lohrer Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#11477 Cem Isin Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#11477 Robin J. Cusimano Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#11477 Garrett Edward Kinsman Noodle Technology 3
#11477 Paul TUMEH University of California 3
#11477 Matthew Scharf Adobe 3
#11477 Brynn Claypoole 10X Genomics 3
#11477 Beiyan Zeng Climate 3
#11477 Jon Block 3
#11477 Mathieu Ripert Maplebear 3
#11477 Alya Abbott Lyft 3
#11477 Tyler Garvin 365 Retail Markets 3
#11477 Ashwath Rajan 365 Retail Markets 3
#11477 Charles Johan Larsson Tibell Google 3
#11477 Kristine Pfeiler Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#11477 Matthew Cady Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#11477 Lane Mortensen Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#11477 Richard Barge Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#11477 Jenson Yan Docusign 3
#11477 Inbar Gazit Docusign 3
#11477 Joe Cartano Docusign 3
#11477 Haila Fine Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#11477 Joshua Goldbard Tevnos 3
#11477 Nick Donaldson Neato Robotics 3
#11477 Nishant Raman Samsara 3
#11477 Andrew Reusch Verily Life Sciences 3
#11477 Adam Weis Cisco 3
#11477 Jasmine Hsu Google 3
#11477 Ali Jelveh 3

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