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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 Twitter, Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Fatdoor. That works out to 257.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 13,701–13,750 of 26,999 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#11477 Edward Ceasar Twitter 3
#11477 Nicole Sarah Kahn Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 3
#11477 Meher Anand Twitter 3
#11477 Youenn Colin Fatdoor 3
#11477 Blaise Bertrand Fatdoor 3
#11477 Matthew D. Lee MIT 3
#11477 Henrik Carl Holmdahl Take-Two Interactive Software 3
#11477 Karim Lotfi Bendimerad E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 3
#11477 Oliver G. Dumon Ebay 3
#11477 Arden Tyler Margulis Digital Display Innovations 3
#11477 Krishna Kamath Twitter 3
#11477 Dirk Koehler Yahoo Holdings 3
#11477 Julie A. Couillard Smart Wires 3
#11477 Wesley Marlin Sutton Amazon 3
#11477 Gregory John Roy Spooner University of Michigan 3
#11477 King Rhoton Adobe 3
#11477 Gordon Dow Adobe 3
#11477 Rajiv Ayyangar Excalibur Ip 3
#11477 Andrew Lovas — 3
#11477 David Eberhard Genentech 3
#11477 Miguel Canizares Salesforce 3
#11477 Ben Willis Saba Software 3
#11477 Gilles Duterque The Nielsen Company (Us) 3
#11477 Jae Pyung Lee Gopro 3
#11477 Lenore Pereira University of California 3
#11477 Willie Yuen Fong Arris Enterprises 3
#11477 Dolores Seraphina Atemasov Converged Data Solutions 3
#11477 Eugene Mirkin Motorola 3
#11477 Ashwin Singhania IBM 3
#11477 Moses T. Ma Rockstar Consortium Us Lp 3
#11477 David S. Schmidt Ami Entertainment Network 3
#11477 Randall William Allred, Jr. Zynga 3
#11477 Paul Edmondson Disney 3
#11477 Steffen Kuentzel Kitty Hawk 3
#11477 Thomas William Knych Google 3
#11477 Bruce Harlick Zynga 3
#11477 Willie Z. Cheng The Boeing 3
#11477 Caitlin S. Collins Google 3
#11477 Colin M. Bogart Google 3
#11477 Jethro Villegas Adobe 3
#11477 Thomas J. Misage Apple 3
#11477 Tod Dykstra — 3
#11477 Restu I. Ismail AMD 3
#11477 Hamid Salehizadeh Seagate Technology 3
#11477 Zaafir Kherani Fluidmaster 3
#11477 Colin O'Bryan Pharmacyclics 3
#11477 Amy M. Kerman Intuit 3
#11477 Nathaniel Wolf Qualcomm 3
#11477 Heidi Bauer Williams Adobe 3
#11477 Cassandra Seay Charles Schwab & Co. 3

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