Top Inventors in San Jose, CA — 2023

San Jose, CA ranks #4 worldwide for total patents filed in 2023, with 16,961 patents from 6,843 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in San Jose, CA include Tencent America, Apple, Qualcomm. That works out to 16.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 6,843 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Shan Liu	Tencent America	294
2	Benjamin Andrew Shaffer	Apple	125
3	Muhammad Sayed Khairy ABDELGHAFFAR	Qualcomm	91
#4	Le Liu	Qualcomm	86
#5	Kishore Kumar Muchherla	Micron	85
#6	Shikhar Kwatra	IBM	77
#7	Aurelio Guzmán	Apple	56
#8	Vijay Venkataraman	Apple	42
#9	Sampath K. Ratnam	Micron	41
#10	Seunghee Han	LG	38
#11	Srinivasan Nimmala	Apple	36
#12	Xu Li	Huawei	35
#12	Jiangli Zhu	Micron	35
#14	Adrien David Gaidon	Toyota	34
#15	Po-Kai Huang	Intel	33
#15	Vishal Satyendra Desai	Cisco	33
#17	Wei Wang	Tencent America	32
#18	Srinath Gundavelli	Cisco	31
#18	Jie Cui	Apple	31
#18	Yongho Seok	LG	31
#21	Guichun Li	Tencent America	30
#21	Zhenming Zhou	Micron	30
#23	Chanaka G. Karunamuni	Apple	29
#23	Indermeet Singh Gandhi	Cisco	29
#25	Sree Ram Kodali	Apple	27
#26	Gary Butcher	Apple	26
#26	Deepak C. Sekar	Monolithic 3D	26
#26	Boris Galitsky	Oracle	26
#29	James Chih-Shi Yee	Mediatek Singapore Pte.	25
#30	Jianhan Liu	Mediatek Singapore Pte.	24
#30	Devin Bhushan	Cisco	24
#30	Jun Sato	Align Technology	24
#30	Fangfang Zhu	Micron	24
#30	Fa-Long Luo	Micron	24
#35	Joseph Zbiciak	Texas Instruments	23
#36	Ron Diamant	Amazon	22
#36	Ajinkya Gorakhnath Kale	Adobe	22
#36	Longda Xing	Apple	22
#36	Sethuraman Gurumoorthy	Apple	22
#36	Eric Lance Wilson	Apple	22
#36	Brandon D. Itkowitz	Intuitive Surgical	22
#36	Amit Gupta	Oracle	22
#36	Jeongho Jeon	Apple	22
#44	Leena Zacharias	Qualcomm	21
#44	Jian Zhang	Ordos Yuansheng Optoelectronics Co.	21
#44	Ke Xu	Tsinghua University	21
#44	Luca Bert	Micron	21
#48	Ryan A. Rossi	Adobe	20
#48	Alexander Heinecke	Intel	20
#48	Thomas Edward Pare, Jr.	Mediatek Singapore Pte.	20

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