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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 Microsoft, Motiv Power Systems, Servicesource International. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 12,801–12,850 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11477 Rick Reicker Microsoft 3
#11477 Grayson Zulauf Motiv Power Systems 3
#11477 Abhinav Vohra Servicesource International 3
#11477 Alexander Stephanos Lakas Google 3
#11477 Matthew Lawrence Denzer Google 3
#11477 Andriy O. Mochalskyy Corel 3
#11477 John Zipfel Google 3
#11477 Harish Subbanarasimhia Palantir Technologies 3
#11477 Steven Ji Hipmunk 3
#11477 Jessica Kathleen Quinn Donaghy Amazon 3
#11477 Matthew Bryan Folz Meta 3
#11477 Miguel S. Giacaman — 3
#11477 Simon Peck — 3
#11477 Timothy R. Schoen Google 3
#11477 Rohan Dixit — 3
#11477 Matthew John Alberts Zynga 3
#11477 Elvin Chu Gcx 3
#11477 Rebecca Gisoo Park Chiou Google 3
#11477 Eric Sheng Dropbox 3
#11477 James Addison Lyft 3
#11477 John Graham Keggi Meta 3
#11477 Robert Preissl Kitty Hawk 3
#11477 Ian Werris Meta 3
#11477 Alexander Matthew Madjar Meta 3
#11477 Wanchen Lu Twitter 3
#11477 William Eric Ehlig Parker-Hannifin 3
#11477 Taylor Dancy Rogalski Meta 3
#11477 Kurt Smith Color Genomics 3
#11477 Aaron Hinken Cytokinetics 3
#11477 Paul Grana Tigo Energy 3
#11477 Ryan J. Moynihan Apple 3
#11477 Emre Yilmaz Take-Two Interactive Software 3
#11477 Karan Nischol Gopro 3
#11477 Vrushali Paunikar Applied Predictive Technologies 3
#11477 Kyle Hartelt Fossil Group 3
#11477 Victoria Davila Worldwise 3
#11477 Catherine Anne Hanson Cisco 3
#11477 Elizabeth Armistead Dropbox 3
#11477 Nicolas Alexandre DiBENEDETTO Brava Home 3
#11477 Dario Amodei Baidu Usa 3
#11477 Jeffrey Bernstein AbbVie 3
#11477 Jonathan Ewart Google 3
#11477 Brent VerWeyst Google 3
#11477 Martin James Cochran Google 3
#11477 Guilherme Carlos De Napoli Ferreira Meta 3
#11477 Scott Andrew Thomson Meta 3
#11477 Scott Charles Perry Inc Square, Co. 3
#11477 Panos Kozanian Cisco 3
#11477 Constantin Lorenzo Tanno Target Brands 3
#11477 Andre Prudhomme — 3

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