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San Jose, CA All Time

289,949 patents  ·  32,062 inventors  ·  286.2/1k pop.

Ranked #12 of 111,555 cities Top 1%

San Jose, CA ranks #12 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 289,949 patents from 32,062 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in San Jose, CA include Agere Systems, Aixtron Se, Apple. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 13,151–13,200 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12320 Arupratan Gupta Agere Systems 4
#12320 Minghang LI Aixtron Se 4
#12320 Daniel D. Schucker Apple 4
#12320 Gregory Vance Gritton Adaptec 4
#12320 Charles Robert Armstrong Google 4
#12320 Yicheng Tao Cisco 4
#12320 Max Sprauer Apple 4
#12320 Mehran Ayat Invensense 4
#12320 Edward Yeh Vlsi Technology 4
#12320 Uday Veeramachaneni Patternex 4
#12320 Martin Manville Venuenext 4
#12320 Kelvin Tseng Super Micro Computer 4
#12320 Ioana M. Costea IBM 4
#12320 Ketan S. Parekh Lumileds 4
#12320 Parker Allen Drennan Google 4
#12320 Seon Geun Kang Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation Gyeongsang National University 4
#12320 Olof Tornblad Vishay-Siliconix 4
#12320 Swee Lim Arizona Board Of Regents For And On Behalf Of Arizona State University 4
#12320 Tony Weber Google 4
#12320 Ajish Thomas Cadence Design Systems 4
#12320 Ivan Baran Sandisk Technologies 4
#12320 Ajit Apte Google 4
#12320 Zhengqin Fan Fellowes 4
#12320 Kee Young Cho Applied Materials 4
#12320 Aravind Oommen Oracle 4
#12320 Darren Christopher Tom Juniper Networks 4
#12320 Ryan L Brissette IBM 4
#12320 Jesse J. Siman Cypress Semiconductor 4
#12320 Mikhael Lerman AMD 4
#12320 Seyed Mohammad Navidpour Apple 4
#12320 Shih-Yao Christine Sun Synopsys 4
#12320 Viman Deb Microsoft 4
#12320 Nariman Moezzi Madani Qualcomm 4
#12320 Elizabeth Goka Relypsa 4
#12320 Duc Chu — 4
#12320 Thomas Liu Interdigital Technology 4
#12320 Anming He Acuson 4
#12320 Ramoji Karumuri Rao Lsi Logic 4
#12320 Rajesh Ramanand Ebay 4
#12320 Adi Masputra Apple 4
#12320 Mark R. Hoke Vpnet Technologies 4
#12320 Ganlin Wu Cisco 4
#12320 Rahul Talekar Vce Ip Holding Company 4
#12320 Vanaja Ravi Cisco 4
#12320 Kandasamy Aravinthan Avago Technologies General Ip (Singapore) Pte. 4
#12320 Jeff Sedayao Intel 4
#12320 Qawi Harvard Nantero 4
#12320 Hariharan Kannan Vce Company 4
#12320 Sung-Kyung Hwang Postech Academy-Industry Foundation 4
#12320 Punitma Malhotra Verizon 4

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