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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 Cisco, Accenture Global Services Limited, Sift Science. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 13,451–13,500 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11477 Sinduja Sreshta Cisco 3
#11477 Jon Walheim Accenture Global Services Limited 3
#11477 Jonathan La Cisco 3
#11477 Colleen Kinross Cisco 3
#11477 Helen Marushchenko Sift Science 3
#11477 Aishanou Osha Rait Gatik Ai 3
#11477 Nadeem Marfani Aboobaker Salesforce 3
#11477 Tanya Sumang Gatik Ai 3
#11477 Foad Mashayekhi Illumina 3
#11477 Sogol Moshtaghi Cisco 3
#11477 Jenna Rae Carl — 3
#11477 Isamu Taguchi Ericsson 3
#11477 Chi (Ricky) Lee Nexkey 3
#11477 Jun-Wei Hew General Motors 3
#11477 Elizabeth Ann Hutt Pollard Applied Silver 3
#11477 Nathaniel Park Just 3
#11477 Tigran Sloyan — 3
#11477 Michael P. Stern Apple 3
#11477 Jeff Solari Intel 3
#11477 Daniel Charles Cocuzzo Meta 3
#11477 Ranjit Chacko Grand Rounds 3
#11477 Aditya Jami Meltwater News International Holdings Gmbh 3
#11477 James Puls Block 3
#11477 Urvin Thakkar Salesforce 3
#11477 A J Palkovic Dropbox 3
#11477 Mehdi Mulani Block 3
#11477 Lior Ben Kereth Meta 3
#11477 Rennie Hsie Song Meta 3
#11477 Miner Crary Google 3
#11477 Vipul Patil Coinbase 3
#11477 Claudia Yu Rubrik 3
#11477 James G. Pilaar — 3
#11477 Brett Suwyn Grand Rounds 3
#11477 Ken Berland Grand Rounds 3
#11477 Christopher Fry General Motors 3
#11477 Kunal Roy General Motors 3
#11477 Matthew Swaner Vitelli Woven Planet North America 3
#11477 Craig Metcho Bloom Energy 3
#11477 Krishnaprasad Gutta Twilio 3
#11477 Amanda Whitley Edwards Williams-Sonoma 3
#11477 Nathan Ferris Latch Systems 3
#11477 Monique Johanna Maria van den Boogaart Uber Technologies 3
#11477 Marcelo Masiero Vanzin Cloudera 3
#11477 Daragh Sibley Stitch Fix 3
#11477 Brett A. Grimmelbein — 3
#11477 Mark Cook USAA 3
#11477 Mark Donsky Cloudera 3
#11477 Machisté Naóri Quintana Salesforce 3
#11477 Miraj Rahematpura Uber Technologies 3
#11477 Joel Rorik Fischer Servicenow 3

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