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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 Sutro Connect, Adobe, Neutron Holdings. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 13,401–13,450 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11477 Andrew Redfern Sutro Connect 3
#11477 Till Uro Adobe 3
#11477 Angus Peart Neutron Holdings 3
#11477 Sonya Ives Uber Technologies 3
#11477 Ho Chi Andrew Chin Dropbox 3
#11477 William Kennedy Browne Quantcast 3
#11477 Gregory Leonidovich Klets IBM 3
#11477 Luke Thompson Dropbox 3
#11477 Robin Shaw University of California 3
#11477 Todd West New Relic 3
#11477 Tom Mercer Opower 3
#11477 Amit Bharadwaj Google 3
#11477 Rohit Poddar Meta 3
#11477 Owen Tripp Grand Rounds 3
#11477 Sara Torti Google 3
#11477 James Shubin Amazon 3
#11477 Fiona Claire Strobridge Apple 3
#11477 David Crawford Alation 3
#11477 Cristian-George Strat Twitter 3
#11477 Alba Gonzalez-Junca — 3
#11477 Mihai Claudiu Toader Twitter 3
#11477 Mircea-Bogdan Pasoi Twitter 3
#11477 Julien Piet Cisco 3
#11477 Gregory Daniel Friedland Autodesk 3
#11477 Mikhail Kaplinskiy Twitter 3
#11477 Michael Morrissey Cieri Inc Square, Co. 3
#11477 Christian P. Tomasofsky Mastercard 3
#11477 Jonathan L. Sherman-Presser Microsoft 3
#11477 Michael M. Malione — 3
#11477 Thomas Haddow Thousandeyes 3
#11477 Wael Al-Sallami Inc Square, Co. 3
#11477 Kyle Douglass Betts Sunfolding 3
#11477 Michael Siani-Rose Affymetrix 3
#11477 Sheikh Ashraful Abedin PayPal 3
#11477 Reza Naima Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha 3
#11477 Emily Schwartzman Salesforce 3
#11477 Hila Shemer Google 3
#11477 Christopher Thomas Sellinger Salesforce 3
#11477 Luc Marcel Giavelli Salesforce 3
#11477 Atif Mohammad Noori Amazon 3
#11477 Sebastian Assaf Google 3
#11477 John Dolan W.L. Gore & Associates Gmbh 3
#11477 Agnieszka Szydlik Ambrx 3
#11477 Samuel Lee Medtronic 3
#11477 Dmitri Korobov Coupa Software Incorporated 3
#11477 Hyon S. Chu Accenture Global Services Limited 3
#11477 Bobby F. Ignatius Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#11477 Liane Miller University of California 3
#11477 William Van Trump — 3
#11477 Harlow Burgess Corelogic Information Solutions 3

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