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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 Adap.Tv, Block, Bank of America. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 12,851–12,900 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11477 Sarah Calvillo — 3
#11477 Trond Erling Grenager Adap.Tv 3
#11477 Christopher Skeels Block 3
#11477 Daniel D. Widjanarko Bank of America 3
#11477 Raffaella Buschiazzo Salesforce 3
#11477 Teresa Anna Marshall Salesforce 3
#11477 David Mark Halloran Google 3
#11477 Jason Shelton Sonitus Medical 3
#11477 Metodi Blagoev Zlatinov GE 3
#11477 Stephen Joseph McDonald Google 3
#11477 Tomas Vianna Martins Tesla 3
#11477 Hugh Burnett Ross Tesla 3
#11477 Dario Presezzi — 3
#11477 Stefano Pessina — 3
#11477 Tim Henson Infineon Technologies Austria Ag 3
#11477 Chaithra Nataraj Cisco 3
#11477 Octavio Enrique Di Sciullo Cisco 3
#11477 Jason Andrew Beyers Cisco 3
#11477 Simon Swanson Palantir Technologies 3
#11477 Anton Chakhmatov Zoosk 3
#11477 Edward Robinson Intuit 3
#11477 Garrett Canan Reeb Ebay 3
#11477 Anders Johan Oedlund Tivo 3
#11477 Zain Jaffer Vungle 3
#11477 Joyce Yeh Salesforce 3
#11477 Bayley Wang Auroratech 3
#11477 Ada Sierraalta — 3
#11477 Tom Serres Pitt-Ohio Express 3
#11477 Bettina Warburg Pitt-Ohio Express 3
#11477 Kristof Didrickson Dropbox 3
#11477 Michael T. Hodgdon PayPal 3
#11477 Maria-Ivmer Real Kalalang Salesforce 3
#11477 Kyle Douglas BETTS Sunfolding 3
#11477 Benjamin Charles James NVIDIA 3
#11477 David A. Vivero Amino 3
#11477 Nicholas C. Dunkman Amino 3
#11477 Bharath Booshan Lakshmi Narayanan Atlassian Pty 3
#11477 Diego Ongaro Salesforce 3
#11477 Adam Hupp Meta 3
#11477 Stanislav Gurenkov Docusign 3
#11477 Philip LaPier Dropbox 3
#11477 Amandine Lee Dropbox 3
#11477 Katherine Busch Dropbox 3
#11477 Irina Korobova Cisco 3
#11477 Rujia Zha Block 3
#11477 George J. King — 3
#11477 Ranjit Joseph Chacko Oracle 3
#11477 Zachary Blender Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#11477 Nicole Voyen Airbnb 3
#11477 Vineel Chand Adusumilli General Motors 3

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