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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 Dropbox, Plume Design, University of California. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 13,351–13,400 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11477 Kelly Bonney-Ache Dropbox 3
#11477 Evan Rusackas Plume Design 3
#11477 Hani Sbitany University of California 3
#11477 William Churchill Taliaferro BURKE Eli Lilly 3
#11477 Ananda Day Carbon 3
#11477 Rakesh Kumar Kumawat Eidos Therapeutics 3
#11477 Tristan Scott Patterson — 3
#11477 Elizabeth Dobbin Ebay 3
#11477 Heather A. McKelvey Google 3
#11477 Colin Neil Swann Amazon 3
#11477 Stephen J. Peter Cilag Gmbh International 3
#11477 Piyush Menon Iqvia 3
#11477 Carlos Enrique Mogollan Jimenez Salesforce 3
#11477 Christiana Mei Hui Chen Intuit 3
#11477 Sayali Bhos Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#11477 Siddharth Coelho-Prabhu Coinbase 3
#11477 Wensi Xu Doordash 3
#11477 Edward Joseph Garza Built Robotics 3
#11477 Sara Joan Photiadis — 3
#11477 Avish Vijaykumar Shah Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited 3
#11477 Russell Tillitt — 3
#11477 Kenneth Jay Spreitzer Snap 3
#11477 Stella Chan IBM 3
#11477 Robin E. Young Neuralink 3
#11477 Mariam Rahila Shaikh Google 3
#11477 Chaitanya Ravula Salesforce 3
#11477 Nathaniel Schlein Box 3
#11477 Joel Davis Bmc Software 3
#11477 Badi Azad Salesforce 3
#11477 Laura LaPerche Lightform 3
#11477 Servando Palencia Five Prime Therapeutics 3
#11477 Ehsan Noursalehi Lightform 3
#11477 Julien Chaintron Apple 3
#11477 Derek Nedelman Lightform 3
#11477 Brittany Factura Lightform 3
#11477 Jason Aramburu — 3
#11477 Amy Putnam University of California 3
#11477 Weihong Liu University of California 3
#11477 Nicholas T. Hertz University of California 3
#11477 Bérénice Mettler May Icuemotion 3
#11477 Sally Ng Unknown 3
#11477 Long-Cheng Li University of California 3
#11477 H. John Kim Grail 3
#11477 Saurabh Misra Cresta Intelligence 3
#11477 David Roy — 3
#11477 Gaurav Narang Zynga 3
#11477 Tarik Abdel-Gawad Google 3
#11477 Lauren Budorick Mapbox 3
#11477 David Scott C. Amiss Western Digital Technologies 3
#11477 Jasmin Laferriere Johnson & Johnson 3

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