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 Intel, AMD, Adobe. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 13,851–13,900 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12320 Fanny Nina Paravecino Intel 4
#12320 Chris Norrie AMD 4
#12320 Steven P. Yankovich Adobe 4
#12320 Kavish Jain Servicenow 4
#12320 Timothy C. Lee Apple 4
#12320 Kavita Waldia Model N 4
#12320 Josh Rosenthal Juniper Networks 4
#12320 Phi Thai AMD 4
#12320 Moe Tanabian Samsung 4
#12320 Suresh Kumar Basandra Proofpoint 4
#12320 Nandhini Nandiwada Santhanam Amazon 4
#12320 Michael Ruvolo Agilent Technologies 4
#12320 Vaibhav Pralhad Bhosale Equinix 4
#12320 Jagadish Kalyanam Applied Materials 4
#12320 Loveneesh Bansal Equinix 4
#12320 Benjamin Hsu Amazon 4
#12320 Cameron Mashouf 4
#12320 Robert Lakes Specialized Bicycle Components 4
#12320 Raveesh Ahuja Broadcom 4
#12320 Kenneth M. Stein Tandon Group 4
#12320 Adnan Rashid Manassra Harris Research 4
#12320 Brett Barton Erickson Assa Abloy Ab 4
#12320 Henry Pang Dell Products 4
#12320 Navdeep Singh Dhanjal Analog Devices 4
#12320 Lee Snorteland Snap-On Incorporated 4
#12320 Jian Chang Huang IBM 4
#12320 Sivkheng Kor Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated 4
#12320 Edward Ng Az Electronic Materials Usa 4
#12320 Thomas A. Stern Cisco 4
#12320 Taiki Hatakeyama Applied Materials 4
#12320 Aditya MANDAL Tula Etechnology 4
#12320 Mohammadreza Negahdar IBM 4
#12320 Ka Ho P. Poon Apple 4
#12320 Sahil Jain Cadence Design Systems 4
#12320 Sean Clemenza HGST 4
#12320 Xiaoli Tang Institute Of Automation, Chinese Academy Of Sciences 4
#12320 Whitney Morgan McGowan Scanadu Incorporated 4
#12320 Franz C. Chen National Semiconductor 4
#12320 Markus Schwickert Nuventix 4
#12320 Rotem Nahum Advantest 4
#12320 Gary Sorensen Aspect Communications 4
#12320 Thomas-Toan Tran Rinat Neuroscience 4
#12320 Arup Kanjilal Yahoo Holdings 4
#12320 Yupeng Fu Palantir Technologies 4
#12320 George Tang Read Rite 4
#12320 Justin J. Muller Cisco 4
#12320 Allen A. Spielberger 4
#12320 Hieu Dinh Georgia State University 4
#12320 Frank Stokes-Guinan Adobe 4
#12320 William G. Paseman 4

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