Top Inventors in San Jose, CA — 2022

San Jose, CA ranks #5 worldwide for total patents filed in 2022, with 15,721 patents from 6,617 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in San Jose, CA include Tencent America, Apple, IBM. That works out to 15.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 6,617 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Shan Liu	Tencent America	268
2	Benjamin Andrew Shaffer	Apple	160
3	Shikhar Kwatra	IBM	104
#4	Kishore Kumar Muchherla	Micron	62
#5	Aurelio Guzmán	Apple	61
#6	Le Liu	Qualcomm	54
#7	Chanaka G. Karunamuni	Apple	44
#8	Eric Lance Wilson	Apple	40
#9	Guichun Li	Tencent America	37
#10	Vijay Venkataraman	Apple	35
#11	Deepak C. Sekar	Monolithic 3D	34
#12	Seunghee Han	LG	33
#13	Sampath K. Ratnam	Micron	32
#13	Ron Diamant	Amazon	32
#13	Srinivasan Nimmala	Apple	32
#16	Xu Li	Huawei	31
#17	Gary Butcher	Apple	30
#18	Adrien David Gaidon	Toyota	28
#18	Vinay Kumar Kolar	Cisco	28
#20	Vishal Satyendra Desai	Cisco	26
#20	Amit Gupta	Oracle	26
#22	Hieu Van Tran	University of California	25
#22	Wei Wang	Tencent America	25
#24	Jun Sato	Align Technology	24
#24	Jeongho Jeon	Apple	24
#24	Ning Li	IBM	24
#27	Sree Ram Kodali	Apple	23
#27	Chun Kin Minor Wong	Apple	23
#29	Quang Le	Western Digital Technologies	22
#29	Huaning Niu	Apple	22
#31	Nathan Edward Tenny	Qualcomm	21
#31	Raju Koganty	Broadcom	21
#31	Navid Aghdaie	Electronic Arts	21
#31	Po-Kai Huang	Intel	21
#31	Xia Li	Qualcomm	21
#31	Sethuraman Gurumoorthy	Apple	21
#31	Minghai Qin	Alibaba	21
#38	Styrmir Sigurjonsson	Natera	20
#38	Alexander Heinecke	Intel	20
#38	Aman Bhatia	Sk Hynix	20
#38	Jibing Wang	Google	20
#42	Qiaoyang Ye	Apple	19
#42	Jiangli Zhu	Micron	19
#42	Jin-Woo Han	Monolithic 3D	19
#42	Andre Souza Dos Santos	Apple	19
#42	Fa-Long Luo	Micron	19
#42	Yu-Chung Lien	Sandisk Technologies	19
#42	Jie Cui	Apple	19
#49	Joseph Zbiciak	Texas Instruments	18
#49	Rajesh Katkar	Invensas	18

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