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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 Target Brands, Credo Technology Group Limited, Adobe. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 13,651–13,700 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12320 Curtis Andrus Target Brands 4
#12320 Rajan Pai Credo Technology Group Limited 4
#12320 Bruce Bowman Adobe 4
#12320 Helen M. Witter IBM 4
#12320 Christian O. Cojocneanu — 4
#12320 Shweta Sagari Koko Home 4
#12320 Jayasree Nayar Micron 4
#12320 Sembian Mani Ebay 4
#12320 Kent K. Grindstaff — 4
#12320 Venkataramanan Kuppuswamy Doordash 4
#12320 Aric Marshall Spatialx 4
#12320 Jaffar Hameed Abdul Kather Jilani Ciena 4
#12320 Wade Barnett Apple 4
#12320 Ahmed Bougacha Apple 4
#12320 Valentin Bazarevsky Google 4
#12320 Nimish H. Modi Intel 4
#12320 Can Ma Disney 4
#12320 Ronak Chetan Desai Invensense 4
#12320 Patrick Lau Broadcom 4
#12320 John S. Suy Tandem Computers Incorporated 4
#12320 William J. Avery Tandem Computers Incorporated 4
#12320 Zoya Bylinskii Adobe 4
#12320 Syed F. Ahmad Qualcomm 4
#12320 David M. Tichane Tandem Computers Incorporated 4
#12320 Mark McDonald IBM 4
#12320 Prashant Batra Nutanix 4
#12320 Esha Desai Cisco 4
#12320 Kathleen A. Lawson Osram Opto Semiconductors Gmbh 4
#12320 Byongho Park Renesas Electronics America 4
#12320 Nicholas Brailas Novell 4
#12320 Pranav Devalla Arista Networks 4
#12320 Lin-Ya Yu AMD 4
#12320 Wei Lu Microsoft 4
#12320 Shadi Youssef Tectus 4
#12320 Alexandre Isoard AMD 4
#12320 Anirudha Deglurkar Ayla Networks 4
#12320 Mary Beth Evans — 4
#12320 Hongyuan Yuan Adobe 4
#12320 Vilas Ketkar Oracle 4
#12320 Mohammad Munirul Haque Sony 4
#12320 Yucheng Ying Analog Devices International Unlimited 4
#12320 Vyacheslav Imeshev Shutterfly 4
#12320 My Thanh Nguyen IBM 4
#12320 Steven L. Landry Cidco Incorporated 4
#12320 Michael Craig Hale Delta T 4
#12320 Fangbo Xu TSMC 4
#12320 Brian K. Copeland Apple 4
#12320 Supriya Vasudevan Snowflake 4
#12320 Srirama Murthy Raju Bhupatiraju NVIDIA 4
#12320 Dmitry Sklyar Applied Materials 4

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