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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 Carl Zeiss Meditec Ag, Meta, Oracle. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 13,301–13,350 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11477 Jayson Arthur McCauliff Carl Zeiss Meditec Ag 3
#11477 Victoria Arch — 3
#11477 Yaron Greif Meta 3
#11477 Daniel Cosson — 3
#11477 Robert Cobb — 3
#11477 Joshua James Ellithorpe Oracle 3
#11477 Scott Bezek Dropbox 3
#11477 Robert Cheung IBM 3
#11477 Katherine Jeanne Rushton Salesforce 3
#11477 Joseph Custodio Corcept Therapeutics Incorporated 3
#11477 Angela M. Estepa Apple 3
#11477 Morgan Smith Vlsi Technology 3
#11477 Blake Bakken Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#11477 Edward F. Chang University of California 3
#11477 Sven Blaser Zipline International 3
#11477 Lishomwa C. Ndhlovu Unknown 3
#11477 Tyler Wallace Box Wideorbit 3
#11477 Kocheng Hsiang Docusign 3
#11477 Olayinka Sylvia Nguessan Google 3
#11477 Ricky-Lee Richards Apple 3
#11477 Kristin Au Salesforce 3
#11477 Shannon Butler Google 3
#11477 Eric Mayers Google 3
#11477 Paul Heider Google 3
#11477 Erick Barto — 3
#11477 Charles Kimble Block 3
#11477 Noam Hurwitz Alchemy Insights 3
#11477 Omar Ceja Alchemy Insights 3
#11477 Chenyi Li Pinterest 3
#11477 Heath Vinicombe Pinterest 3
#11477 Nathanael Smith Disney 3
#11477 Gustav M. Larsson Apple 3
#11477 Kathila Rajapaksa Genentech 3
#11477 Trevor Noel Howarth Ditto Technologies 3
#11477 Frederick Henry Stevens-Smith Rainforest Qa 3
#11477 Ogden Kent Maplebear 3
#11477 Hammond Guerin Vungle 3
#11477 Davina Pallone Click Therapeutics 3
#11477 Daniel Barbosa Click Therapeutics 3
#11477 Daniel Bardenstein Palantir Technologies 3
#11477 Sean GEIGER Apple 3
#11477 Chandranil Chakraborttii Samsung 3
#11477 Jake WACHMAN Sunpower 3
#11477 Pierre Rappolt Okta 3
#11477 Thomas Rapkoch Visa 3
#11477 Daniel E. Kaufman Affirm 3
#11477 Joel Basile Varley Lawrence Livermore National Security 3
#11477 Michael Reichman Danisco Us 3
#11477 Andrew Damele Bellwether Coffee 3
#11477 Ritu Moondra Dropbox 3

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