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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 Netflix, Certicom, Pandora Media. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 13,601–13,650 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11477 Kay Neuenhofen Netflix 3
#11477 Michael Daskalopoulos Certicom 3
#11477 Eric Kenson Bieschke Pandora Media 3
#11477 Chris Dorsey Palantir Technologies 3
#11477 Matt Sills Palantir Technologies 3
#11477 Sophie Shevick Gilead Sciences 3
#11477 Brandon Jacob Montell Google 3
#11477 Kyle McKay Qualcomm 3
#11477 Michael Coates Shape Security 3
#11477 Tim Peacock Shape Security 3
#11477 Pradeep Baliganapalli Nagaraju Qualcomm 3
#11477 Ethan Fassett Yahoo Holdings 3
#11477 Leonid Oliker University of California 3
#11477 Lynette M. Galvan Bank of America 3
#11477 Christopher G. Siden Delphix 3
#11477 Paola Rossaro — 3
#11477 Anna Maria Jansson Google 3
#11477 Lajos Molnar Texas Instruments 3
#11477 Antoine Boulanger Box 3
#11477 Geoffrey Dolan Conmed 3
#11477 Prashanth Pappu Conviva 3
#11477 Ryan James Terribilini Google 3
#11477 Ari Ranjit Kamlani Opentv 3
#11477 Wayne A. Koniuk — 3
#11477 Matthieu Phillippe François Tourne Cloudflare 3
#11477 Mark Detweiler Adobe 3
#11477 Daniel Eugene Eisenbud Google 3
#11477 Joseph Arceneaux France Telecom 3
#11477 Karl Dray Dropbox 3
#11477 Shaunak Kishore Dropbox 3
#11477 Andrew Cole Axely Google 3
#11477 William H. Dana, Jr. — 3
#11477 Lisa G. Dana — 3
#11477 Adam Galper Microsoft 3
#11477 Luka Bodrozic Apple 3
#11477 Jeffrey W. Fassnacht Microsoft 3
#11477 Alex Millie Welch Allyn 3
#11477 Santiago Prieto Cisco 3
#11477 Michael Malaga Lv Sensors 3
#11477 Brian Lucas Siemens Medical Solutions Usa 3
#11477 Juan Carlos Velten — 3
#11477 Mark Bunger — 3
#11477 Opher Yom-Tov Apple 3
#11477 Ken Paul Koller Jimmy Jane 3
#11477 James Migdal Utbk 3
#11477 Mariko Hara Kao 3
#11477 Greger J. Orelind Alexa Internet 3
#11477 Johanna Jansen Novartis Vaccines And Diagnostics 3
#11477 Eric J. Godtland — 3
#11477 Wendye Robbins University of California 3

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