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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 Inc Square, Co., Apple, Meta. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 13,251–13,300 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11477 Prashan Dharmasena Inc Square, Co. 3
#11477 Shane Blackie Inc Square, Co. 3
#11477 Stacey R. Abrams Apple 3
#11477 Christopher E. Balmes Meta 3
#11477 Sara W. Bird Psomagen 3
#11477 Jeff McConathy Mftb Holdco 3
#11477 Juan Ugalde Psomagen 3
#11477 Aaron Soloway Wave Neuroscience 3
#11477 Sara Wojciechowski Ocado Innovation Limited 3
#11477 Eddie Licitra HP 3
#11477 Mike Ying Google 3
#11477 Seth Shaw Adobe 3
#11477 Mark S. Fowler Qualcomm 3
#11477 Jay Allan Behr Autodesk 3
#11477 Scott A. Steber Matrix Industries 3
#11477 Miguel A. Cardona, Jr. Zebrafish Labs 3
#11477 James Vanhook Singer Google 3
#11477 Dean T. Brown IBM 3
#11477 Cemre Güngör Meta 3
#11477 Timothy Garleung Wong Apple 3
#11477 Robert Goodson Quid 3
#11477 Fenglin Liao Airbnb 3
#11477 Michael Philip Balaban Apple 3
#11477 Werner Wright Bagwell Zynga 3
#11477 Shahin Fathi Djalali — 3
#11477 Andrew Lottmann Cbs Interactive 3
#11477 Karen Theisen Plastics Technology Corporation) 3
#11477 Lucas Alonso-Martinez Twitter 3
#11477 Kowshik Murali Analog Bits 3
#11477 Diego Rivas Costante — 3
#11477 Laurent Plumelle Cisco 3
#11477 Joyce Reitman — 3
#11477 Jordan Potter Palantir Technologies 3
#11477 Jeff Stark Google 3
#11477 Alexander Usach Rubicon Labs 3
#11477 Nathan Rosenthal Inc Square, Co. 3
#11477 Johnnemann Winthrop Nordhagen Sony 3
#11477 Gene Hallman Minerva Project 3
#11477 Kieran Hervold Adaptive Biotechnologies 3
#11477 Benjamin Yolken Airbnb 3
#11477 Pascale Vicat-Blanc F5 Networks 3
#11477 Alexa Andrzejewski Meta 3
#11477 Diwakar Goel Oracle 3
#11477 Joseph Bynoe Accenture Global Services Limited 3
#11477 Arthur W. Yerkes Bittorrent 3
#11477 Matthew Dexter Hancher Google 3
#11477 Christopher William Hunt Inkling Systems 3
#11477 Daniel Steif Boku 3
#11477 Joshua Lewis Ayasdi 3
#11477 Michael Lefkowitz Apprente 3

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