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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 Cisco, Meta, Drobo. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 13,751–13,800 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12320 Joe Joseph Karimundackal Cisco 4
#12320 Hairong Kuang Meta 4
#12320 Mark J. Herbert Drobo 4
#12320 Jihui Huang Asml Us 4
#12320 Vinod Pisharody Array Networks 4
#12320 Philip Cizdziel Lifescan 4
#12320 Simon yiu hoi Poon Oracle 4
#12320 William H. Gascoyne Lsi Logic 4
#12320 Pei-Yu Wu Academia Sinica 4
#12320 Weifang Xie Oracle 4
#12320 Anthony Bachman Pulsar Vascular 4
#12320 Michael Gendreau Pulsar Vascular 4
#12320 Mikhail Romanov Oracle 4
#12320 Cheow F. Yeo Hyundai Electronics America 4
#12320 Arvind Jagannath Cohesity 4
#12320 Martin P Leslie Virtual Power Systems 4
#12320 Souvik Das Capital One Services 4
#12320 Frank Robles — 4
#12320 Gautam Joshi Cisco 4
#12320 Niranjan Madan Mohan Bhatia Amazon 4
#12320 Kyuhyun Kim Samsung 4
#12320 Suvitha Kesavan Cisco 4
#12320 Maurizio Zecchini — 4
#12320 James T. Heineck — 4
#12320 Abhishek Kothari Verizon 4
#12320 David Coblentz Adobe 4
#12320 Martin J. McKeefery Nio Usa 4
#12320 Sanat Kamal Bahl Freewire Technologies 4
#12320 Justin Schmelzer Cadence Design Systems 4
#12320 George O. Mohler University of California 4
#12320 Joe Ray Dell Products 4
#12320 Hari Hara Balan Shanmugasundaram PayPal 4
#12320 Santhosh Jagadeesan PayPal 4
#12320 Viet-Dzung Nguyen Disney 4
#12320 Benjamin Yun Liang Broadcom 4
#12320 Ambujavalli Kesavan Oracle 4
#12320 Jaed Uavechanichkul Meta 4
#12320 Craig Congdon Jabil 4
#12320 Jackson J. Gardner Amazon 4
#12320 John Leung Metricstream 4
#12320 Michael J. Athanas Thermo Finnigan 4
#12320 Gladney Asada AMD 4
#12320 Chenfeng Zhang Sandisk Technologies 4
#12320 Nilay Chheda Vce Ip Holding Company 4
#12320 Michael Cosci HGST 4
#12320 Paulo Coelho Google 4
#12320 Kamlakar N. Patil Dialogic 4
#12320 Yaron Bar-Ness Centillium Communications 4
#12320 Wendy Ngo Lam Avinger 4
#12320 Carl Paquet Institut National D'Optique 4

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