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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 Applied Materials, Openwave Systems, Microsoft. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 13,801–13,850 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12320 Thuy Britcher Applied Materials 4
#12320 Priyen Doshi Openwave Systems 4
#12320 Weiqin Ma Microsoft 4
#12320 Wreetabrata Kar Adobe 4
#12320 Xuejun Yuan Oracle 4
#12320 Clinton SAKATA Applied Materials 4
#12320 Chao-Hsin Chi Intel 4
#12320 Carlos Ramos Credence Systems 4
#12320 Christopher Alan Oberhauser Texas Instruments 4
#12320 Alec J. Wong AMD 4
#12320 Fred Assadi Hospira 4
#12320 Scott A. Gulland HP 4
#12320 Timothy White — 4
#12320 Pavan Kumar Kla-Tencor 4
#12320 Colin Wayne Crisanti Shutterfly 4
#12320 Weiyi Qi Samsung 4
#12320 S. Craig Nelson AMD 4
#12320 Yaasha Sabba Visa 4
#12320 Pavan Kumar Perali Kla-Tencor 4
#12320 Angela Wang National Semiconductor 4
#12320 Adrian Wang Diodes Incorporated 4
#12320 Ivan Wong Oracle 4
#12320 Johannes von Sichart Servicenow 4
#12320 James M. Stichnoth Google 4
#12320 Akiko Hoshikawa IBM 4
#12320 Gregory Steinke Intel 4
#12320 Aaron J. Middlebrook Becton, Dickinson And 4
#12320 Dzmitry Dulko Palantir Technologies 4
#12320 David Fang Wei Chen Intevac 4
#12320 Nathaniel Brahms Cisco 4
#12320 J. Stephen Smith Apple 4
#12320 Carrie Loan Kim Huynh Phynexus 4
#12320 Mitchell J. Mason IBM 4
#12320 Domenico Liberti Nxp B.V. 4
#12320 Patrick M. Malone IBM 4
#12320 Satish Kumar Musukula Microsoft 4
#12320 Sameep Navin Solanki Ebay 4
#12320 Stan Wong IBM 4
#12320 Jean-Michel Berthoud Apple 4
#12320 Caleb S. Leung AMD 4
#12320 Philip Eun Fireeye 4
#12320 Christopher Thomas Lee Arevo 4
#12320 Mea Wang AT&T 4
#12320 Xiuhua Zhang Lam Research 4
#12320 Sandro Squadrito Symmetricom 4
#12320 Alampoondi Eswaran Natarajan Novell 4
#12320 Matthew Jaquish Ebay 4
#12320 Mike Chang IBM 4
#12320 Josie Dai Affymetrix 4
#12320 Tim Day Finisar 4

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