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 Genentech, Network Appliance, Broadcom. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 13,651–13,700 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11477 Menno VanLookeren Genentech 3
#11477 Cal O'Kelly 3
#11477 Jonathan T. Wall Network Appliance 3
#11477 Timothy Milan Pozar Broadcom 3
#11477 Daniel Alex Aronson Broadcom 3
#11477 John A. Tedesco 3
#11477 Emil Robert Martinsek Accenture Global Services Limited 3
#11477 Georgina Russell Broadcom 3
#11477 Timothy J. Pletschet Xyratex Technology Limited 3
#11477 Edward P. Reiss Health Discovery 3
#11477 Vivion Andrew Brennan Chevron 3
#11477 Mon For Yee Business Objects S.A. 3
#11477 Gregory G. Schwartz University of California 3
#11477 Pablo M. Stern Microsoft 3
#11477 Mike Massucco Better Place Gmbh 3
#11477 Aaron Elias Berhanu Intuit 3
#11477 Hugh Olliphant 3
#11477 Bryce Glass Yahoo Holdings 3
#11477 Kinsley Wong Oracle 3
#11477 Johannes W. F. Majoor Fair Isaac 3
#11477 Luis J. V. Galietta University of California 3
#11477 Ali Razai University of California 3
#11477 Joel Turkel Oracle 3
#11477 Stephanie Eva Koester Apple 3
#11477 Benjamin Perkins Foss 3
#11477 Thomas Burke National Semiconductor 3
#11477 Williams J. Evans Abbott 3
#11477 Bridget J. Frey Bea Systems 3
#11477 Keith Haycock Check Point Software Technologies 3
#11477 Ronna C. Tanenbaum Alexa Internet 3
#11477 Gerardo J. Capiel 3
#11477 Kwok-Leung (Jacky) Au-Yeung Valentis 3
#11477 Kevin Walker Sladek Say Media 3
#11477 Matthew Lawrence Areva Solar 3
#11477 Betty A. Maddux University of California 3
#11477 Sasha J Holland Rigel Pharmaceuticals 3
#11477 Laszlo Komuves Millennium Pharmaceuticals 3
#11477 Chester Bell Microsoft 3
#11477 Adric Q. Broadwell Scintera Networks 3
#11477 Ralph Jacob Cressman Google 3
#11477 Pascal Tom Getreuer 3
#11477 Gary Kushner Good Technology Holdings Limited 3
#11477 Patrick York Ma 3
#11477 Cory Kidd 3
#11477 Isabelle Lee Nexmo 3
#11477 Angela Strange Google 3
#11477 Atri Chatterjee Mcafee 3
#11477 Peter Lude Reald 3
#11477 Daniel S. Dofter Path 3
#11477 Matthew M. Matteson Path 3

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