Top Inventors in San Jose, CA — 2021

San Jose, CA ranks #4 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 15,977 patents from 6,693 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in San Jose, CA include Tencent America, Apple, IBM. That works out to 15.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 6,693 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Shan Liu	Tencent America	191
2	Benjamin Andrew Shaffer	Apple	95
3	Shikhar Kwatra	IBM	83
#4	Ning Li	IBM	49
#5	Aurelio Guzmán	Apple	47
#5	Seunghee Han	LG	47
#5	Kishore Kumar Muchherla	Micron	47
#5	Jeremy A. Greenberger	IBM	47
#9	Le Liu	Qualcomm	43
#10	Daniel Harden	Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited	41
#11	Xu Li	Huawei	40
#11	Huaning Niu	Apple	40
#13	Qiaoyang Ye	Apple	35
#13	Sampath K. Ratnam	Micron	35
#13	Chanaka G. Karunamuni	Apple	35
#16	Eric Lance Wilson	Apple	33
#17	Gary Butcher	Apple	32
#17	Deepak C. Sekar	Monolithic 3D	32
#19	Po-Kai Huang	Intel	31
#20	Guichun Li	Tencent America	30
#21	Joseph Zbiciak	Texas Instruments	28
#22	Nafea Bshara	Amazon	27
#22	Vishal Satyendra Desai	Cisco	27
#24	Yakun Sun	Disney	26
#25	Jie Cui	Apple	24
#25	Aman Bhatia	Sk Hynix	24
#27	Chenrong Xiong	Sk Hynix	23
#28	Wook Bong Lee	LG	22
#28	Jeongho Jeon	Apple	22
#28	Ron Diamant	Amazon	22
#28	Jun Sato	Align Technology	22
#32	Baker Scott	Qorvo Us	21
#32	Ravikiran Nory	Motorola Mobility	21
#32	Omer Tripp	IBM	21
#32	Nathan Edward Tenny	Qualcomm	21
#32	Raju Koganty	Broadcom	21
#32	Xuanxuan Lu	Sk Hynix	21
#32	Dharmendra S. Modha	IBM	21
#39	Srinath Gundavelli	Cisco	20
#39	Joseph Amalan Arul Emmanuel	Netgear	20
#39	Fa-Long Luo	Micron	20
#42	Lulin Chen	Mediatek Singapore Pte.	19
#42	Xia Li	Qualcomm	19
#42	Javier A. Delacruz	Xcelsis	19
#42	Jin-Woo Han	Monolithic 3D	19
#46	Prashant Majhi	Intel	18
#46	Amit Gupta	Oracle	18
#46	Indermeet Singh Gandhi	Cisco	18
#46	Hsi-Jung Wu	Apple	18
#46	Alexander Heinecke	Intel	18

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