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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 Veritas Technologies, Asml Netherlands B.V., Intuitive Surgical. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 14,201–14,250 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12320 Anand Athavale Veritas Technologies 4
#12320 Shibing Liu Asml Netherlands B.V. 4
#12320 Russell L. E. Blanchard Intuitive Surgical 4
#12320 Darren Burton Yahoo Assets 4
#12320 Tienen Chao Super Micro Computer 4
#12320 Sunil Mair Quantumscape 4
#12320 Nitin Bajaj Samsung 4
#12320 Katherine Pearson Zuora 4
#12320 Ruowen Wang Samsung 4
#12320 Rajesh Sudarsan Netapp 4
#12320 Roy Wen Arista Networks 4
#12320 Seshagiri Chilukuri Zuora 4
#12320 Yoni Medoff Ebay 4
#12320 Ruiyi Zhang Adobe 4
#12320 Xiaoyue Jiang Invensense 4
#12320 Alireza Dirafzoon Meta 4
#12320 Partha Dey Align Technology 4
#12320 Christopher Lam Duke University 4
#12320 Charles Dong Priam 4
#12320 Hansraj Singh Bhamra Purdue Research Foundation 4
#12320 Shiyu YUE Applied Materials 4
#12320 Margaret A. MOORE Apple 4
#12320 Houwu Bai Cisco 4
#12320 Adam Lee Frost Google 4
#12320 Kevin Sugihara Ebay 4
#12320 Ali Naddaf Google 4
#12320 Vaidyanathan Varsha Cypress Semiconductor 4
#12320 Chao Yu China University Of Petroleum 4
#12320 Mingliang Wei Niantic 4
#12320 Sakti Aishwarya Arunachalam Arista Networks 4
#12320 Winnie Tang Stryker 4
#12320 Girish Kumar Attimgere Lingaiah Juniper Networks 4
#12320 Srini Venkatesan Stubhub 4
#12320 Mark Ensor University Of Kentucky 4
#12320 Dwight David Griffin Texas Instruments 4
#12320 Amit Dhir AMD 4
#12320 Jonghyeon Kim Toshiba Memory 4
#12320 Tomas L. Ortiz Ferrer Lumileds 4
#12320 Defeng Lu Sae Magnetics (H.K.) 4
#12320 Sungchul Yoo Kla-Tencor 4
#12320 Daniel P. Carter Apple 4
#12320 Yu Zhang — 4
#12320 Daibashish Gangopadhyay Apple 4
#12320 Ravindra Surya Lanka Ebay 4
#12320 Sai Kiran Gummuluri Apple 4
#12320 Natalia Vladimirovna Mamkina Amazon 4
#12320 Paul Neil Iglesias Paulino Atheer 4
#12320 Andrei Makhanov Apple 4
#12320 Timothy K. Emami Netapp 4
#12320 Brian Scott Garrison — 4

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