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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 Samsung, Ebay, Korea Research Institute Of Bioscience And Biotechnology. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 14,251–14,300 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12320 Dalkandura Arachchige Kalpa Shashika Silva Gunaratna Samsung 4
#12320 Raphael Tsow Ebay 4
#12320 Nam-soon Kim Korea Research Institute Of Bioscience And Biotechnology 4
#12320 May Lam Oracle 4
#12320 Gilbert Esrome Kuruneri Apple 4
#12320 Ryan T. CENA Visby Medical 4
#12320 Seyed Amir Yahyavi Firouz Abadi Palo Alto Networks 4
#12320 Laleh Roosta Pour Palo Alto Networks 4
#12320 Romit Mehta PayPal 4
#12320 Prabhu Kasinathan PayPal 4
#12320 Shreyas Bhaban Becton, Dickinson And 4
#12320 Nitilaksha Halakatti Cisco 4
#12320 Rutvik Acharya Google 4
#12320 Liyu Yang Google 4
#12320 Tianhua Yu Lam Research 4
#12320 Ritesh Rekhi Nutanix 4
#12320 Diego BARRERA Nanosys 4
#12320 Tudor Antoniu Apple 4
#12320 Gregory Vincent Gaudio Apple 4
#12320 Fengbin Chen Adobe 4
#12320 Thanh Cong Dinh Florida A&M University 4
#12320 Parshan Namiranian Align Technology 4
#12320 Akin Aina Tesla 4
#12320 Eswar Rao Sadaram Palo Alto Networks 4
#12320 Yuchang Liu Advantest 4
#12320 Jafar Shenasa Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. 4
#12320 Kumarappan Palaniappan Cisco 4
#12320 Anthony Luck Intel 4
#12320 Andrew Gellai IBM 4
#12320 Seung Hyo Lee PayPal 4
#12320 Licheng Niu Axbio 4
#12320 Teddy Vincent Toms PayPal 4
#12320 Zidan Lian Syniverse Technologies 4
#12320 Gurjit Chadha Western Digital Technologies 4
#12320 Deanna Carey Google 4
#12320 Rajeshwari Muthupandian Ebay 4
#12320 Rohan Gupte Advantest Test Solutions 4
#12320 Rohith Mohan Dodle Adobe 4
#12320 Bill Scott Yahoo Holdings 4
#12320 Kenneth B. Stackhouse GE 4
#12320 Mardiros Z. Chakalian Netapp 4
#12320 Arvind Nadendla Zscaler 4
#12320 Kane Sweeney Ebay 4
#12320 Chris Pabelico Applied Materials 4
#12320 Pedro A. Pinies Rodriguez Apple 4
#12320 Diane K. O'Rourke — 4
#12320 Yi Chen Apple 4
#12320 Sushanth Rai HP 4
#12320 Mengmeng Niu Google 4
#12320 Shreekanta Das Broadcom 4

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