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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 Zoox, Renesas Electronics America, IBM. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 13,951–14,000 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12320 Thomas Michael Flanagan Zoox 4
#12320 Hulong Zeng Renesas Electronics America 4
#12320 Tin Nguyen IBM 4
#12320 Armin Haj Aboutalebi Samsung 4
#12320 Neelakantan Nurani Krishnan Qualcomm 4
#12320 Tiffany C. Suekama Incept 4
#12320 Lalithkumar Rajendran Amazon 4
#12320 Madhavi Kavathekar Skyhigh Networks 4
#12320 Anthony Joseph Piazza Flex 4
#12320 Fangfu Li Asml Netherlands B.V. 4
#12320 Can XIONG Apple 4
#12320 Vikram Tuli Ebay 4
#12320 Siddarth Naga Murty Bassa Sandisk Technologies 4
#12320 Eduardo Chan Biointellisense 4
#12320 Sonal Prem Kumar Chhabria Cisco 4
#12320 Farzad Salimi Jazi — 4
#12320 Rashmikant B. Shah Cisco 4
#12320 Ravinandan Govinda Rao Arakali Cisco 4
#12320 Jagannath Rallapalli Meta 4
#12320 Kumarapandian Paulvannan — 4
#12320 Vivian Gledhill Ebay 4
#12320 Wei Wang Tesla 4
#12320 Avinash Chukka Verizon 4
#12320 Zhanghao Hu PayPal 4
#12320 Xuyao Hao PayPal 4
#12320 Sayed Ashraf Mamun Cisco 4
#12320 Nathaniel P. Marrin Apple 4
#12320 Jiheng Zhao Applied Materials 4
#12320 Caitlin Sicora Target Brands 4
#12320 Mandar Suresh Naik Netapp 4
#12320 Stavan Parikh Google 4
#12320 Albrecht Schoy AMD 4
#12320 Kyle J. Campiotti Apple 4
#12320 Maulshree Goyal PayPal 4
#12320 Ken Ames Watlow Electric Manufacturing 4
#12320 Maxwell Henry Poole Ebay 4
#12320 Dominic L. HOWELL Apple 4
#12320 Ashok Chalaka California Micro Devices 4
#12320 Xihua Dong Fortinet 4
#12320 Tri Q. Ha IBM 4
#12320 Noritsugu Kanazawa Google 4
#12320 Nabil Khater Credence Systems 4
#12320 Kung-Yen Su United Microelectronics 4
#12320 Srinivas Beeravolu AMD 4
#12320 Barry Craver Applied Materials 4
#12320 Sai-Kit Tong 3M 4
#12320 Sanjeev Agrawal Apple 4
#12320 Hassan Alam — 4
#12320 Rushyah Tang — 4
#12320 Carl H. Fong Cirrus Logic 4

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