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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 Foundry Networks, Excalibur Ip, Palmchip. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 13,901–13,950 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12320 Manan Shah Foundry Networks 4
#12320 Tim Daly Excalibur Ip 4
#12320 S. Jauher A. Zaidi Palmchip 4
#12320 Yongran Huang Oracle 4
#12320 Mohammad Mahdi Tanabian Microsoft 4
#12320 Siwei Shen Google 4
#12320 Armen Nofer Hamstra Microsoft 4
#12320 Christopher Tim Althoff Google 4
#12320 Jungung Kim United Microelectronics 4
#12320 Rudolph R. Verderber Portola Packaging 4
#12320 Clarence B. Ferguson AMD 4
#12320 Abhijit Seal Broadcom 4
#12320 George Bielert — 4
#12320 Martina Simova IBM 4
#12320 JuHee Jeon Samsung 4
#12320 Wai Cheong Wilson Chu Defond Componets Limited 4
#12320 Aniruddha R. Karmarkar Lockheed Martin 4
#12320 Douglas Shepherd Mad Catz 4
#12320 Mark R. Heinold Ge-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas 4
#12320 Gary A. Runkle Ge-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas 4
#12320 Santosh Panattu Sethumadhavan — 4
#12320 Carlos Castro Boston Scientific Scimed 4
#12320 Pengcheng Zhan Quantenna Communications 4
#12320 J. Paul McCabe Apple 4
#12320 Doron Hai-Reuven PayPal 4
#12320 Bao Phan Polymer Technology Systems 4
#12320 Greg Smestad — 4
#12320 Matthew A. Hunter NVIDIA 4
#12320 Tushar Thole Broadcom 4
#12320 Mark F. Lachman Doble Engineering 4
#12320 Seema Subrao Shenoy — 4
#12320 Xianing Zhu Xerox 4
#12320 Meenaradchagan Vishnu Calix Networks 4
#12320 Jillian Cocklin Danal 4
#12320 Phat Bao Trinh Capsovision 4
#12320 Sean Patrick Wheeler The Gillette Company 4
#12320 Mingtian Liu Yahoo Assets 4
#12320 Pedram Sabouri Applied Materials 4
#12320 Phiroze Parakh Google 4
#12320 Ron Huang Apple 4
#12320 Mike O'Hara Cytyc Surgical Products 4
#12320 David Gallagher Voyetra Turtle Beach 4
#12320 Khanfer A. Kukkady Western Digital Technologies 4
#12320 Rohitkumar Godhani Stryker 4
#12320 Russel E. Walker Indala 4
#12320 Sebastian Thomas Kakkanad Motorola 4
#12320 Robert Ried Input/Output 4
#12320 Jaime G. BLACKSTAD Intuitive Surgical 4
#12320 Eddie Batlle PayPal 4
#12320 James R. Quaranta, Jr. Intel 4

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