Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Sept 30, 2025

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 Applied Materials, Seagate Technology, Hong Kong Applied Science And Technology Research Institute Company Limited. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 13,551–13,600 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12320 Yung-Hsin Lee Applied Materials 4
#12320 Ashutosh Razdan Seagate Technology 4
#12320 Man Chi Chan Hong Kong Applied Science And Technology Research Institute Company Limited 4
#12320 Alexander M. Hoffman Apple 4
#12320 Kenneth S. Ledford Applied Materials 4
#12320 Jianren Lin Malema Engineering 4
#12320 Rohit Subramanian Stryker 4
#12320 Jeffrey Wright Microsoft 4
#12320 HaoQiong Chen Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited 4
#12320 Bruce McEvers Boston Scientific Scimed 4
#12320 Mohammad Bagher Vahidfar Situne 4
#12320 Saravanan Sampathkumar Cisco 4
#12320 Nitin Makhija Qualcomm 4
#12320 Jason K. Foster Applied Materials 4
#12320 Kevin Patrick Hoyt IBM 4
#12320 Chunwei Chang Apple 4
#12320 Sagar Kumar Regmi Ford 4
#12320 Shuxia Wang Hgst Netherlands, B.V. 4
#12320 Kyle Gordon Haight Amazon 4
#12320 Fumin Gu Micron 4
#12320 Yali Xiong Volterra Semiconductor 4
#12320 Hua Yu Immersion 4
#12320 Jessie Sanchez Brookhurst Garage 4
#12320 Mehdi Habibollahzadeh Western Digital Technologies 4
#12320 Mohan Navaratna Equinix 4
#12320 Xinyao Sun Tcl Research America 4
#12320 Randall Marks Microbix Biosystems 4
#12320 MD Mansurul A. Bhuiyan IBM 4
#12320 Hongwoo Lee Apple 4
#12320 Alana Grace Guzzetta Us Concrete 4
#12320 Rachna Ahlawat Ondot Systems 4
#12320 Joseph Florencio Microsoft 4
#12320 Eng Eow Goh Apple 4
#12320 Vijit V. Nair Juniper Networks 4
#12320 Biswajit Kanungo Avaya 4
#12320 Pramod Bangalore Avaya 4
#12320 Zaher Andraus University of Michigan 4
#12320 John Joseph Google 4
#12320 Herbert Law Niantic 4
#12320 Jeff Budzinski Excalibur Ip 4
#12320 Ku Hong Jeong Avago Technologies General Ip (Singapore) Pte. 4
#12320 Richard Douglas LeCour Digital Guardian 4
#12320 Yinjuan He Apple 4
#12320 Jingliang Li Synaptics Incorporated 4
#12320 Azadeh Afshar Bakooshli Ai Incorporated 4
#12320 Anthony Robert Bell Ebay 4
#12320 Nham Van Le Adobe 4
#12320 Kaushik Narayanun NVIDIA 4
#12320 Heng Wang Cognant 4
#12320 Matthew Alexander Perry Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 4

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