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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 Power Integrations, Cisco, Cadence Design Systems. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 13,251–13,300 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12320 Richard W. Currell Power Integrations 4
#12320 Saikrishnan Gopalakrishnan Cisco 4
#12320 Jon Frankle Cadence Design Systems 4
#12320 Michel Hoche-Mong Juniper Networks 4
#12320 Matt Fruin Sandisk 3D 4
#12320 Travis Byonghyop Oh Unity Semiconductor 4
#12320 Elizabeth Mayo University of Michigan 4
#12320 Hengyang James Lin National Semiconductor 4
#12320 Paul Shafer Biocircuits 4
#12320 Elvin P. Dang AMD 4
#12320 Huaxin Gao IBM 4
#12320 Chang-Pen Tai Foundry Networks 4
#12320 Yu-Feng Chang Applied Materials 4
#12320 Donald Schremp Agilent Technologies 4
#12320 Tohru Kao Cisco 4
#12320 Chris Shi-Chai Liu Sony 4
#12320 Chioumin M. Chang Cadence Design Systems 4
#12320 Saravanan Shanmugham Cisco 4
#12320 Shamino Wang General Instrument 4
#12320 Arnold London Adaptec 4
#12320 Vinay Gundi Cisco 4
#12320 Jinliu Wang HGST 4
#12320 Jack Norris Hyperion Solutions 4
#12320 Vassiliki Milonopoulou Springworks 4
#12320 Zia Hasnain — 4
#12320 Asif Rao — 4
#12320 Mohan Tandyala Lattice Semiconductor 4
#12320 Chia-Cheng Lu Super Micro Computer 4
#12320 Kevin F. Foster IBM 4
#12320 Lik Harry Chen Apple 4
#12320 Srinivas Ramamurthy Atmel 4
#12320 Vineet Tiwari Stmicroelectronics Sa 4
#12320 Irene Bing Bie Tan Cardiokinetix 4
#12320 Eric Worthington Qualcomm 4
#12320 Bong-Gun Lee Samsung 4
#12320 Raymond B. Cota Optimedica 4
#12320 Julie Meridian Adobe 4
#12320 James W. Eldridge IBM 4
#12320 Anthony David Knight First Media Group 4
#12320 James Richards Microsoft 4
#12320 Donald Krall Fortinet 4
#12320 Tim Craig Invetech 4
#12320 Stanley J. Kopec, Jr. Intel 4
#12320 Yew Ming Chiong Wd Media 4
#12320 Alexander Ross Google 4
#12320 Calvin Choi Vishay-Siliconix 4
#12320 Wuu-Cherng Lin Intel 4
#12320 Frederich Albert Lim Alavar Taheri Laduca 4
#12320 Richard Dryden Foster Wheeler Energia Oy 4
#12320 Xiaomei Guan Ipass 4

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