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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 IBM, Affymetrix, Chips And Technologies, Llc.. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 13,301–13,350 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12320 Peter Wansch IBM 4
#12320 Mohsen Shirazi Affymetrix 4
#12320 James A. Picard Chips And Technologies, Llc. 4
#12320 Mark P. Kelley Cirrus Logic 4
#12320 Daniel Wong Microsoft 4
#12320 Der Min Liou onsemi 4
#12320 Kristine Karnos Intel 4
#12320 Vuk Borich Cadence Design Systems 4
#12320 Tersem Summan Applied Materials 4
#12320 Krisna Bhargava Lockheed Martin 4
#12320 Euipil KWON — 4
#12320 Seetha Lakshmi IBM 4
#12320 Michael Hepp Omnivision Technologies 4
#12320 Duane C. Holmes Nanometrics Incorporated 4
#12320 William Durbin Glasspoint Solar 4
#12320 Hy Quoc Pham Cisco 4
#12320 Denis M. Lynch Google 4
#12320 Xinhua Zong The Research Foundation At State University Of New York 4
#12320 Chris Moulios Apple 4
#12320 Paul A. Roche Boston Scientific Scimed 4
#12320 Anirban Bandyopadhyay Intel 4
#12320 Hemant Maheshwari IBM 4
#12320 Jon Bender Chevron 4
#12320 Kevin Wright Business Objects Software 4
#12320 Paul-Hugo Lamarche AMD 4
#12320 Jack T. B. Kim Samsung 4
#12320 Dave Lyons Apple 4
#12320 Mark Alan Bach IBM 4
#12320 Mike Sullenberger Cisco 4
#12320 Taeyong Yoon HGST 4
#12320 Barrie N. Harding IBM 4
#12320 Xin Zhang HP 4
#12320 Dennis G. Emge Kla Instruments 4
#12320 Phuong Rosalynn Duong Cisco 4
#12320 Matthew Wayne Novak IBM 4
#12320 Steve Edwards Sony 4
#12320 Paul Hardy Goodrich Actuation Systems Limited 4
#12320 Aris Wong Foundry Networks 4
#12320 Eric Andre Warmenhoven Brocade Communications Systems 4
#12320 Bor-Wen Yang Quanta Computer 4
#12320 Richard Hernandez Intel 4
#12320 Dmitriy Portnov Google 4
#12320 Khoi Doan Applied Materials 4
#12320 John T. Jacobs RTX (Raytheon) 4
#12320 Ritun Patney Ericsson 4
#12320 Keith H. Wong AMD 4
#12320 Andrew Way Noxilizer 4
#12320 Chau Anh Ngoc Nguyen Juniper Networks 4
#12320 Gowri Kuthanur Tellabs Operations 4
#12320 Shrisha Radhakrishna Intuit 4

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