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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 Salesforce, University Of Massachusetts, Meta. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 13,001–13,050 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11477 Raquel Velez Salesforce 3
#11477 Matthew Nolan Caudill Salesforce 3
#11477 Helen Kupp Salesforce 3
#11477 Christopher Roy Brigham University Of Massachusetts 3
#11477 Zachary Garth Hendlin Meta 3
#11477 Julie L. Heiser Quantcast 3
#11477 Wayne Robins Twitter 3
#11477 Jesse Daniel Backman Cisco 3
#11477 Oliver Riihiluoma Neutron Holdings 3
#11477 Amy Katherine Hunnel Bianchi Cisco 3
#11477 Marius-Andrei Danila Twitter 3
#11477 Tianhai Hu Twitter 3
#11477 Jan Castor Twitter 3
#11477 Juyong Kim KAIST 3
#11477 Tyler Rhodes Verily Life Sciences 3
#11477 Ruchika Mittal Salesforce 3
#11477 Bethany Pickard Salesforce 3
#11477 Lauren Elizabeth Scissors Meta 3
#11477 Yevgeniy Goldin Servicenow 3
#11477 Michael Joseph Broxton Stanford University 3
#11477 Giles Matthew Lowe August Home 3
#11477 Wendy W. Johansson Appnexus 3
#11477 Matthew Jones Verizon 3
#11477 Felipe Melivilu — 3
#11477 Eric David Kwiatkowski Utvate 3
#11477 Jeremy Apthorp Salesforce 3
#11477 LokKee Loh Applied Materials 3
#11477 Nikolas Martelaro Accenture Global Solutions Limited 3
#11477 Lila Fridley Cisco 3
#11477 Andrea L. Blakemore Apple 3
#11477 Ugo Vollmer Mapbox 3
#11477 Niklas Quarfot Nielsen D2Iq 3
#11477 Nathan Mandi General Motors 3
#11477 Lisa Fan Dropbox 3
#11477 Wolfgang Mathurin Salesforce 3
#11477 Conner McNamara Ripple Labs 3
#11477 Dadi Armannsson Ripple Labs 3
#11477 Gunnar Kristjansson Ripple Labs 3
#11477 Shutian Zeng Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#11477 Yiping Zhuang Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#11477 Tovo DAVID Cerus 3
#11477 Andrew William Deagon Samsara 3
#11477 Jekabs Stikans Patreon 3
#11477 Thomas Dziedzic Calmwave 3
#11477 Arég Harutyunyan Cloudflare 3
#11477 Jesse Woodward American Express 3
#11477 Lauren Elizabeth SIROIS Genentech 3
#11477 Carlos Olguin Logicink 3
#11477 Nicholas Dufour Google 3
#11477 Noah Eisen Google 3

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