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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 Orange, Appdynamics, Salesforce. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 13,151–13,200 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11477 Boris Henriot Orange 3
#11477 Guillaume Payan Orange 3
#11477 Brad Winslow Appdynamics 3
#11477 Nicolas Paymal Salesforce 3
#11477 Benjamin Levinson Unknown 3
#11477 Fred S. Williams Aluminum Company Of America 3
#11477 Stephen Braitsch Uber Technologies 3
#11477 Stu Grossman Juniper Networks 3
#11477 GiriSrinivasaRao AthuluruTlrumala — 3
#11477 Gregory Michael Blevins Google 3
#11477 Jason Adam Karsh Google 3
#11477 Andri H. Kristinsson Microsoft 3
#11477 William D. Pijewski Joyent 3
#11477 Richard Shaffer Hipmunk 3
#11477 Samuel Kramer Beder Google 3
#11477 Timothy Irish Bauman Meta 3
#11477 Huw Rowland Tanner Novartis Ag 3
#11477 MANDY BOONTANRART AbbVie 3
#11477 Rohith Ravi Zynga 3
#11477 Matthew Graney General Motors 3
#11477 Brandon Ripley Fluidigm 3
#11477 Rob Hess Oath 3
#11477 Dennis A. Kalaf IBM 3
#11477 Matthew Thomas James Starbucks 3
#11477 Philip Levis Stanford University 3
#11477 Amal Kumar Dorai Microsoft 3
#11477 Natalia Sevillano Cytomx Therapeutics 3
#11477 Beth L. Pruitt Stanford University 3
#11477 Brad Sadler Bank of America 3
#11477 Amit Vij — 3
#11477 Peter J. Johnston Apple 3
#11477 Nicholas Michael SNEAD Arbutus Biopharma 3
#11477 Crystal Musante Kci Licensing 3
#11477 Kaming Li Blueowl 3
#11477 Babak Namaziyan Igt 3
#11477 Maksym Dzitsiuk Google 3
#11477 Stanislas Oleksiak AMD 3
#11477 Erica Davis Sap Se 3
#11477 Jonathan Mio Databricks 3
#11477 Laura Waterbury Fair Isaac 3
#11477 Daniel Toker Flow Neuroscience 3
#11477 Harsh Jawharkar Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#11477 Adam James Putinski Salesforce 3
#11477 Eryn Hales Apple 3
#11477 Brandon Labbe Block 3
#11477 Shaun Forouzandeh Block 3
#11477 Heemin Yang Apple 3
#11477 Andrea Slobodien Smule 3
#11477 Charu Janqid Niantic 3
#11477 Abraham Botros Open Space Labs 3

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