Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Sept 30, 2025

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 AMD, Miles Laboratories, Boyd Lighting. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 13,501–13,550 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11477 Alan Thomas Clark AMD 3
#11477 George B. Federighi 3
#11477 Nazreen Pancham Miles Laboratories 3
#11477 Daniel T. Nakatsu 3
#11477 David Galoob 3
#11477 Murray C. Pfister Boyd Lighting 3
#11477 Robert C. Limbach 3
#11477 Raymond Pictet University of California 3
#11477 Peter R. Amstein Microsoft 3
#11477 Carl E. Mackewicz University of California 3
#11477 Stuart Schneck Webtv Networks 3
#11477 Heimo Riedel Genentech 3
#11477 Carl E. Knight 3
#11477 Paul J. Dittmeier Bausch & Lomb Incorporated 3
#11477 David J. Gilman Trimble Navigation Limited 3
#11477 Willi Munz Peerless Lighting 3
#11477 Barbara Goulter 3
#11477 John Patrick Mulkins 3
#11477 James D. Hassi Constant Velocity Transmission Lines 3
#11477 Jordan Honig Bio-Rad Laboratories 3
#11477 Robert M. Rubino 3
#11477 Stuart Sharpe Apple 3
#11477 Myoung-Seo Koo University of California 3
#11477 J. Michael Buchanan Eastman Kodak 3
#11477 Douglas B. Powell Cadence Design Systems 3
#11477 Diane E. Caramore Origin Medsystems 3
#11477 George C. Oyama, Jr. 3
#11477 Pedro A. Carrillo Celtrix Pharmaceuticals 3
#11477 Donald J. Fauss University of California 3
#11477 Kelly Lamarco Tularik Limited 3
#11477 Keith Passaretti Island Graphics 3
#11477 Clayton L. Yee Oracle 3
#11477 Roger V. Brunt Apple 3
#11477 Lea Kobeli Black & Decker 3
#11477 Mark Ferdinand Bowers Google 3
#11477 Ashley Ma Google 3
#11477 Zachary Mason Roth Microsoft 3
#11477 Amy Poon Kar Sin Visa 3
#11477 Soheil Ebrahimzadeh Meta 3
#11477 Christopher E. Cann University of California 3
#11477 Laurence M. Russo Rousseau Research 3
#11477 Charles Garvin US Army 3
#11477 Kurt J. Bendit 3
#11477 Joachim W. Thuroff Urological Instrument Research 3
#11477 Paul L. Chapin Unknown 3
#11477 Vladimir Pyatov 3
#11477 Cyril J. Roche 3
#11477 Keith C. Chilcote 3
#11477 Creighton D. Hartman Prutech Ii 3
#11477 David P. Calleance 3

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