Top Inventors in San Jose, CA — 2020

San Jose, CA ranks #3 worldwide for total patents filed in 2020, with 16,876 patents from 6,906 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in San Jose, CA include Tencent America, Apple, IBM. That works out to 16.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 6,906 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Shan Liu	Tencent America	116
2	Benjamin Andrew Shaffer	Apple	77
3	Jeremy A. Greenberger	IBM	59
#4	Aurelio Guzmán	Apple	46
#5	Ning Li	IBM	44
#6	Chanaka G. Karunamuni	Apple	43
#7	Seunghee Han	LG	40
#8	Huaning Niu	Apple	39
#9	Eric Lance Wilson	Apple	38
#9	Nafea Bshara	Amazon	38
#11	Gary Butcher	Apple	37
#11	Le Liu	Qualcomm	37
#13	Xu Li	Huawei	36
#14	Omer Tripp	IBM	35
#14	Jordin T. Kare	Intellectual Ventures	35
#16	Ron Diamant	Amazon	32
#17	Ashish Kundu	IBM	30
#18	Po-Kai Huang	Intel	29
#18	Javier A. Delacruz	Xcelsis	29
#20	Kishore Kumar Muchherla	Micron	28
#21	Ravikiran Nory	Motorola Mobility	27
#22	Sampath K. Ratnam	Micron	26
#22	Hsi-Jung Wu	Apple	26
#24	Dharmendra S. Modha	IBM	25
#25	Jinjing Jiang	Disney	24
#25	Yakun Sun	Disney	24
#27	Hung Sheng Lin	Apple	23
#27	Xia Li	Qualcomm	23
#27	Sachin Ganu	Hewlett Packard Enterprise	23
#27	Hieu Van Tran	University of California	23
#31	Nathan Edward Tenny	Qualcomm	22
#31	Cyprian Emeka Uzoh	Invensas	22
#31	Xiaohui Shen	Adobe	22
#31	Kartik Ramaswamy	Applied Materials	22
#35	Dan F. Greiner	IBM	21
#35	Yifeng Qiu	Lumileds	21
#37	Nicholas V. King	Apple	20
#37	Vishal Satyendra Desai	Cisco	20
#37	Sami M. Almalfouh	Apple	20
#37	Richard R. Dellinger	Apple	20
#37	Chun Kin Minor Wong	Apple	20
#37	Shikhar Kwatra	IBM	20
#37	Amit Gupta	Oracle	20
#37	Prashant Majhi	Intel	20
#45	Guei-Yuan Lueh	Intel	19
#45	Chin-Wei Lin	Apple	19
#45	Nitin K. Ingle	Applied Materials	19
#45	Fred Worley	Samsung	19
#45	Rudy J. Wojtecki	IBM	19
#50	Hailin Jin	Adobe	18

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