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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 Ford, Corning Optical Communications, Apple. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 14,151–14,200 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12320 Subharthi Banerjee Ford 4
#12320 Srinivas Pinagapany Corning Optical Communications 4
#12320 Timothy P. Horton Apple 4
#12320 Kevin Martin Amiraux Arista Networks 4
#12320 Chase Pasquale Samsung 4
#12320 Gaylord Lewis Erickson, II Aehr Test Systems 4
#12320 Martin E. Freeborn Lam Research 4
#12320 David Cao Quantumscape Battery 4
#12320 Harsh MAHESHWARI Quantumscape Battery 4
#12320 Shanni A. Weilert Apple 4
#12320 Brian Mark Curtis — 4
#12320 Matthew Jeremy Mellin Juniper Networks 4
#12320 Christopher De Gour Salesforce 4
#12320 Benjamin Davini Broadcom 4
#12320 Swati Jhawar Microsoft 4
#12320 Miao Jin Applied Materials 4
#12320 Kallol Banerjee Juniper Networks 4
#12320 Minxi Gao Intel 4
#12320 Christopher Y. Tremblay Apple 4
#12320 Ryan N. Armstrong Apple 4
#12320 Anbu Chezhian Gunalan Cisco 4
#12320 Mehdi Karimi Infinera 4
#12320 Fujun Zhong Ebay 4
#12320 Jing Han Qualcomm 4
#12320 Xiaoyi Duan Palo Alto Networks 4
#12320 Liliya Lyandres Apple 4
#12320 Pretesh A. Mascarenhas Apple 4
#12320 Daniel P. Patterson Apple 4
#12320 Alexandre Chong Meta 4
#12320 Jacek Dobaczewski Cypress Semiconductor 4
#12320 Pepito Galvez Thomas West 4
#12320 Sitaram Venkatraman Cisco 4
#12320 James Hickey Avaya 4
#12320 Quanjun Chen Southern University Of Science And Technology 4
#12320 Plamen Jeliazkov Jeliazkov Wandisco 4
#12320 Hyun W. Kwon AMD 4
#12320 Sundeep Parsa Adobe 4
#12320 Harshpreet Singh IBM 4
#12320 Eduardo Fuhrken Loop Commerce 4
#12320 Sagnik Kar Amazon 4
#12320 Anand Navalgund G-Tech Medical 4
#12320 Elizabeth Little Roche Molecular Systems 4
#12320 Mohammad Naimur Rahman Verizon 4
#12320 Yue Chan Micron 4
#12320 Tyler Kraus Specialized Bicycle Components 4
#12320 Michael Ray Ham Maxlinear 4
#12320 Paul Duree Verizon 4
#12320 Paul Rand Ams Trace Metals 4
#12320 Robert Ormond Ams Trace Metals 4
#12320 Shilpa Modi Atlassian Pty 4

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