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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 Adobe, Pinterest, Walmart Apollo. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 12,751–12,800 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11477 Richard Vaughan Stebbing Adobe 3
#11477 Candace Williams Pinterest 3
#11477 Laksh Bhasin Pinterest 3
#11477 Candice Morgan Pinterest 3
#11477 Rahim Daya Pinterest 3
#11477 Ricardo Kuchimpos Pinterest 3
#11477 Larkin Brown Pinterest 3
#11477 Stephanie Rogers Pinterest 3
#11477 Brittany Staten Walmart Apollo 3
#11477 Paul Teixeira Walmart Apollo 3
#11477 Alok Kothari Adobe 3
#11477 Tomas Nykodym Databricks 3
#11477 Jacob Rozin Intuit 3
#11477 Tara Michelle Mitchell Uber Technologies 3
#11477 David Spenser DyTang Uber Technologies 3
#11477 David Azaria Tonal Systems 3
#11477 Pauline Louazel Principle Power 3
#11477 Sami Rajala Embark Trucks 3
#11477 Wyatt EBERSPACHER Bespoke 3
#11477 David Willenbrink Endoshape 3
#11477 Colin Sebestyen AMD 3
#11477 Sakshi Garg Cisco 3
#11477 Sahinaz Safari Sanjani Cisco 3
#11477 Baptiste Henriquez Planisware Sas 3
#11477 Ali Sakr Salesforce 3
#11477 Wenwen Liao Salesforce 3
#11477 Samuel B. Gooch Apple 3
#11477 Joy Zheng Visa 3
#11477 Katherine R. Rudolph Dropbox 3
#11477 Charly Mario Walther Uatc 3
#11477 Paul McGuinness Carl Zeiss X-Ray Microscopy 3
#11477 Matthew Werner Coinbase 3
#11477 Kay Sueru Feker Block 3
#11477 Kayla Palm Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#11477 Nico Acosta Amador — 3
#11477 Allen Aung Kyaw Lwin Cantaloupe Systems 3
#11477 Chris Bourdon Sandia 3
#11477 Sadeesha Gamhewa — 3
#11477 Kevin En-Kai Wu — 3
#11477 Jorn Wossner — 3
#11477 Irene Perali Apple 3
#11477 Luo Yi Tan Fyusion 3
#11477 Sumeet Lahorani Twitter 3
#11477 Shawn R. Scully Alta Devices 3
#11477 Raymond Win Google 3
#11477 Tatiana Kerzhner — 3
#11477 Anna Ryaboy — 3
#11477 Stephen Basile Fastly 3
#11477 Sudeshna Pantham A9.Com 3
#11477 Thibault Michel Max Peyronel Meta 3

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