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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 Hughes Tool Company, Komag, Memorex. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 13,451–13,500 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12320 Kevin W. Lockyear Hughes Tool Company 4
#12320 Ching-Cheng Shir Komag 4
#12320 Dennis W. Karle Memorex 4
#12320 Robert I. Potter IBM 4
#12320 Marnell Smith NASA 4
#12320 William C. Kreamer Fmc 4
#12320 Gerald L. Campagna Unknown 4
#12320 J. Scott Ellis — 4
#12320 John C. Carruth GE 4
#12320 Kenneth J. Jamrus GE 4
#12320 Frank M. Balbas Sjoberg Industries 4
#12320 Lee A. Cotterill Electro Sound 4
#12320 Gordon McCarty Raychem Limited 4
#12320 Danny C. Swain — 4
#12320 Ajay K. Shah AMD 4
#12320 Timothy D. Osentowski — 4
#12320 Ernest D. Boshek Tandy 4
#12320 Robert Samuel Glenn, Jr. Sony 4
#12320 Burford J. Furman Aplex 4
#12320 Pankaj Manglik Aviatrix Systems 4
#12320 Shidong Zhang Google 4
#12320 Yifei Du Omnivision Technologies 4
#12320 Avishek Gyanchand Ebay 4
#12320 Jose V Santos Martinez Apple 4
#12320 Phil Mitchell Ampere Computing 4
#12320 Mukesh Chamanlal Shah ExxonMobil 4
#12320 William J. Stendardo Smith Corona 4
#12320 Vikram Khurana Whitehead Institute For Biomedical Research 4
#12320 Reyn Tetsuro WAKABAYASHI Applied Materials 4
#12320 Mingle Tong Applied Materials 4
#12320 Jim Hong Trustwave Holdings 4
#12320 Keith M. Murdoch Coherent 4
#12320 Sujay Sarkhel Oracle 4
#12320 Megha Manohara Netflix 4
#12320 Udin Salim AMD 4
#12320 Michael T. Verdon Fortrend Engineering 4
#12320 Mir Shahrouz Takyar Uber Technologies 4
#12320 Preston Cowley Matterport 4
#12320 James Sundra Matterport 4
#12320 Dustin Michael Cook Matterport 4
#12320 Anthony Meyer Lam Research 4
#12320 Christopher M. Lonvick Cisco 4
#12320 Drew Phillips Applied Materials 4
#12320 Josh Freeman Johns Manville 4
#12320 Jingyi Fang Google 4
#12320 Nilesh Singh Google 4
#12320 Phi Hoai Dang Emc 4
#12320 John D. McCarthy Snap-On Incorporated 4
#12320 Prayoon Phathayakorn Netiq 4
#12320 Aalap D. Parikh PayPal 4

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