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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 Heat And Control, J.R. Schneider Co., Beckman Instruments. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 13,551–13,600 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11477 Arthur A. Nilsen Heat And Control 3
#11477 Patricia A. Roane — 3
#11477 William D. Crowe J.R. Schneider Co. 3
#11477 William S. Gutierrez Beckman Instruments 3
#11477 Nilson V. Ortiz — 3
#11477 Clarence W. Wieland — 3
#11477 Lewis S. Silverstein — 3
#11477 Mogens L. Bramson — 3
#11477 Jefferson W. Davis, Jr. US Dept of Energy 3
#11477 George S. Lobastov — 3
#11477 Wallace Shrimpton — 3
#11477 Carl H. Wildenradt — 3
#11477 Jacques Stoerr Essilor Of America 3
#11477 Lawrence Cole — 3
#11477 Kathi Wong — 3
#11477 Dana H. Lynch NASA 3
#11477 Scott S. Willens Westinghouse Electric 3
#11477 Edward M. Abolnikov Applied Materials 3
#11477 Charles B. Glaser Schering 3
#11477 Matthew S. Harvey Monster Cable Products 3
#11477 Stuart Adelman — 3
#11477 Michele Young AMD 3
#11477 Jerry C. Sze Hughes Aircraft 3
#11477 Henry Guillory — 3
#11477 William F O'Keefe — 3
#11477 Donald L. Lafferty — 3
#11477 Thomas W. Tolles Raychem Limited 3
#11477 James Kinner — 3
#11477 Deno Kannes — 3
#11477 Kenneth Gilliam Sega Enterprises 3
#11477 Richard R. Bettger Schlage Lock Company 3
#11477 Gerrit VanOmmering Ford 3
#11477 Ronald D. Lichty Schlage Lock Company 3
#11477 John F. Bloomfield Ampex 3
#11477 Ronald D. Ower, deceased Neogen 3
#11477 Richard C. Perry — 3
#11477 Steve Kroll Restaurant Technology 3
#11477 Prashant Velagaleti Dts 3
#11477 Jordan B. Schneider Apple 3
#11477 Ryan Stenson US Air Force 3
#11477 Wenqi Shao Meta 3
#11477 Bill Wetherell Aol 3
#11477 Fabio T. Campos Apple 3
#11477 George Su University of California 3
#11477 Shane E. Dyer — 3
#11477 Ryan A. Kuhlenbeck Tula Etechnology 3
#11477 Emily Jane Johnston Google 3
#11477 Burt Herman Adobe 3
#11477 Shafagh Zandi Microsoft 3
#11477 Xavier Damman Adobe 3

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