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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 IBM, Kla, The Dun & Bradstreet. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 14,051–14,100 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12320 Richard Yonts IBM 4
#12320 Marcel Trimpl Kla 4
#12320 James Beveridge The Dun & Bradstreet 4
#12320 Sha Lin Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics Co. 4
#12320 Avihay Nathan PayPal 4
#12320 Guillaume Bigny Infineon Technologies Ag 4
#12320 Velimir Radanovic Oracle 4
#12320 Chun Lu Hycon Technology 4
#12320 Xiaojun Lei University of Pennsylvania 4
#12320 Hai VAN Tandy 4
#12320 Yilun Cao Magic Leap 4
#12320 Rakesh M. Pathak Cisco 4
#12320 Elvis B. Halcrombe IBM 4
#12320 Abijith Kumar Apple 4
#12320 Sulabh Khandelwal Apple 4
#12320 Alex Gong PayPal 4
#12320 Pramod Kumar Aggarwal Ciena 4
#12320 Ville Karaila Volvo Car 4
#12320 Camilla Hall Just 4
#12320 Shadi Saba Cadence Design Systems 4
#12320 Satish Inampudi Emc Ip Holding Company 4
#12320 Alexander C. Powers Apple 4
#12320 Constantine Andrew Kousoulis Nutanix 4
#12320 Boyu Charlie Tong Rubrik 4
#12320 Yi-Jung Su Via Technologies 4
#12320 Naga Gopi Devaraju Fluidigm 4
#12320 Aminat Adebiyi IBM 4
#12320 Mohammed Abdi IBM 4
#12320 Md Atiq ul Islam Ebay 4
#12320 Ziqiu Li Accenture Global Services Limited 4
#12320 Thomas Rouse — 4
#12320 Jose J. Aroche Martinez Apple 4
#12320 Ugo I. Orellana Gonzalez IBM 4
#12320 Jiaju Yue Black Sesame Technologies 4
#12320 Prashanth Thumbargudi Cisco 4
#12320 Lianghao Chen Pinterest 4
#12320 Mallikarjuna Potta Ebay 4
#12320 Scott Alan Williams Apple 4
#12320 Rodolfo Enrique Alvizu Gomez Google 4
#12320 Dileeshvar Radhakrishnan Servicenow 4
#12320 Blaine CARTER Align Technology 4
#12320 Ethan J. Tira-Thompson Apple 4
#12320 Roque Alejandro Arcudia Hernandez — 4
#12320 Bernardo Augusto de Oliveira Vieira Archer Aviation 4
#12320 Nischint Rajmohan Archer Aviation 4
#12320 Md. Mohiuddin Mazumder Intel 4
#12320 Robert T. Aloe Apple 4
#12320 Curtis Sullivan Rovi Guides 4
#12320 Narges Shahidi Samsung 4
#12320 Seyed Mohammad Javid Mahmoudzadeh Apple 4

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