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

Showing 12,951–13,000 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11477 Boris Logvinskiy Twitter 3
#11477 Robert Charles LANE — 3
#11477 Justin R. Heckman Apple 3
#11477 Li Mei Cytomx Therapeutics 3
#11477 Jimmy VAN WESTENBERG Baronova 3
#11477 Anthony Le City Of Hope 3
#11477 James Frederick Cregg — 3
#11477 Prasanna Vasudevan Adobe 3
#11477 Andrew J. Schran Google 3
#11477 Andrew Charles Deffenbaugh Apple 3
#11477 Doug Kirkpatrick Sensanna Incorporated 3
#11477 John McLord Netflix 3
#11477 Justin Scott Laughland Keenwawa 3
#11477 Douglas Ian Fulop Kindred Systems 3
#11477 Gary Withey Atreca 3
#11477 Sanyantan Ghosh Ebay 3
#11477 Lauren Porter Hipmunk 3
#11477 Frederick Taylor Fernandez Sandisk Technologies 3
#11477 Harim Kim Samsung 3
#11477 Brandon Dement Western Digital Technologies 3
#11477 Karishma Amin Georgetown University 3
#11477 Thomas Kielbus — 3
#11477 Luke Alonso Twitter 3
#11477 Willie J. Cowart Abbott 3
#11477 Greg Gardner Oath 3
#11477 Nicholas Patrick Shortway Meta 3
#11477 IRINA L. MELNIK — 3
#11477 Jayraj K. Shethji Terapore Technologies 3
#11477 Ramesh Ramani Salesforce 3
#11477 Kevin Stumpf Uber Technologies 3
#11477 Marc Le Boeuf Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#11477 Seth Hitchings Evernote 3
#11477 Stephen James White Evernote 3
#11477 Ying Y. Su Google 3
#11477 Takashi Yonebayashi Safegraph 3
#11477 Dragos Misca Broadcom 3
#11477 Vanessa Koch Asana 3
#11477 Carmen Ximena D'Arlach Oracle 3
#11477 Jesse Zhou Zenpayroll 3
#11477 Romain Gaucher Synopsys 3
#11477 Moshiur M. Anwar University of California 3
#11477 Julia Perrier 8Me Nova 3
#11477 Daniel Faddoul States Title 3
#11477 Richard Walter Weldon Allscripts Software 3
#11477 Jimmie Fulton Ripple Labs 3
#11477 Katherine Chu Principia Biopharma 3
#11477 Danelle Vermeulen Netflix 3
#11477 Michael Brzustowicz Just 3
#11477 Abram Burkholder Neutron Holdings 3
#11477 Kwabena Agyeman Embark Trucks 3

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