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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 Netapp, AMD, Apple. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 13,501–13,550 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12320 Kumaran Nagappan Netapp 4
#12320 Anindita Patra AMD 4
#12320 Patrick B. Wright Apple 4
#12320 Scott Phillip Cutler NVIDIA 4
#12320 Kamil Krzysztof Wojcicki Cisco 4
#12320 Smeeta Jalan Google 4
#12320 Anurag Makineni Skydio 4
#12320 Alexander Tu Nanosys 4
#12320 Chenfei Shen Applied Materials 4
#12320 David Alvarez Applied Materials 4
#12320 Ilanit Fisher Applied Materials 4
#12320 Michael Riepe Achronix Semiconductor 4
#12320 Ishita Ghosh AMD 4
#12320 Jae Myung YOO Applied Materials 4
#12320 Candace Marbury Google 4
#12320 Yijun Cai Broadcom 4
#12320 Everett Yip Cisco 4
#12320 Manu Pillai Fujitsu Limited 4
#12320 Jason Roth Winfield Solutions 4
#12320 Amir Ghaderi Royal Bank Of Canada 4
#12320 Siddharth KAMATH Qualcomm 4
#12320 Robert Hamchuck Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 4
#12320 Daniel Jacobs Microsoft 4
#12320 Amir H. Jadidi Apple 4
#12320 Brandon P. Smith Global Nuclear Fuel-Americas 4
#12320 Akiko Ikkai Apple 4
#12320 Rick Kustra Applied Materials 4
#12320 Charles Randell Sievert Google 4
#12320 Steven Nicholas Eliuk IBM 4
#12320 Manish Patel Omnicell 4
#12320 Philippe Vandermersch NVIDIA 4
#12320 Kevin J. Myers Juul Labs 4
#12320 Jingyu Kang Amazon 4
#12320 Gaurav Arya Apple 4
#12320 Bryan P. Ribaya Eloret 4
#12320 Joshua Norman Lilje Google 4
#12320 Fatos MYFTARI Apple 4
#12320 Donkoun Lee Samsung 4
#12320 Danny Do Dunan Sensing 4
#12320 Xintong Lyu Monolithic Power Systems 4
#12320 Namit Sharma Cohesity 4
#12320 Mark D. Albers Rockford 4
#12320 Karthik Krishnamoorthy Globalfoundries 4
#12320 James Margatan Microsoft 4
#12320 Steve X. Zhou Apple 4
#12320 Murugesan Guruswamy Plume Design 4
#12320 Jaideep Mukherjee Cadence Design Systems 4
#12320 Yunfeng Ling Bio-Rad Laboratories 4
#12320 M. Wasiur Rashid NVIDIA 4
#12320 Han Hee Song Cisco 4

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