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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 Intel, Western Digital Technologies, Applied Materials. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 13,701–13,750 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12320 Camila Jaramillo Intel 4
#12320 Raymond Quines Western Digital Technologies 4
#12320 Daniella Holm Applied Materials 4
#12320 Vamsi Anne Arista Networks 4
#12320 Nageswara R. Pobbathi Yahoo Holdings 4
#12320 Mandar Samant Hewlett Packard Enterprise 4
#12320 William Pippey Abbott 4
#12320 George A. Burt, Jr. Phase Metrics 4
#12320 Kenneth W. Epstein Lockheed Martin 4
#12320 James Marcus Stewart Echelon 4
#12320 Arjun Sreekantiah Cisco 4
#12320 Marc Estoque Lam Research 4
#12320 Pallavi Zhang Applied Materials 4
#12320 Alex Cozzi PayPal 4
#12320 James Thao Kieu — 4
#12320 Olive Tao Broadcom 4
#12320 Bobby Gene Burrough Apple 4
#12320 Robert Michael Van Osten Apple 4
#12320 Erik Avy Vaknine Amazon 4
#12320 Jolyon Browne Rapiscan Systems 4
#12320 Carl J. Bailey Tandem Computers Incorporated 4
#12320 Wen Chen Cheng IBM 4
#12320 Thomas M. Morse Ep Technologies 4
#12320 Rajeev P. Kalavar Avaya 4
#12320 Vincent Shih Sandisk Technologies 4
#12320 Andrey Goder Meta 4
#12320 Peter R. Jaeger Synopsys 4
#12320 Michihiro Hatanaka Meidensha 4
#12320 Mauricio A. Hernandez IBM 4
#12320 Makonnen Payne Entegris 4
#12320 Jeffrey G. Fontaine IBM 4
#12320 Edward William Olsen Linear Technology Holding 4
#12320 Rangaprabhu Parthasarathy Amazon 4
#12320 Kyaw Z. Min — 4
#12320 Paresh Jayant Rajwat Meta 4
#12320 Jayant Lakshmikanthan Applied Materials 4
#12320 Venu Javarappa Microsoft 4
#12320 Ashwini Choudhary Carl Zeiss Ag 4
#12320 Nasima Parveen Lsi 4
#12320 Thomas T. Oshidari Dsc Communications 4
#12320 Anoo Nathan Unknown 4
#12320 Damon Lee Apple 4
#12320 Christopher Gilliard Broadcom 4
#12320 Mark Gurries Qnovo 4
#12320 Alan Nolet Timbre Technologies 4
#12320 John G. Peterson Fmc 4
#12320 Rodney Scott Ziegenhagen, II Kinetrix 4
#12320 Nick Moezidis Unknown 4
#12320 Gregory Illes Credence Systems 4
#12320 Napolean J. Leoni HP 4

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