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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 Northwestern University, Google, Intuity Medical. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 14,301–14,350 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12320 Eun-Soo Kwak Northwestern University 4
#12320 Pramod Gaud Google 4
#12320 Peter Uy-Vu Ly Intuity Medical 4
#12320 Shota SHIMONAKA Panasonic 4
#12320 Sameer D. Karkhanis Mcafee 4
#12320 Smitha L. RAPAKA Microsoft 4
#12320 Jeremy Li Questek Innovations 4
#12320 Tiffany Ding (Lay) Tecan Trading Ag 4
#12320 Tin Ngo Tecan Trading Ag 4
#12320 Vijeth Lomada Adobe 4
#12320 Aida Khosroshahi Google 4
#12320 Devon Jensen Becton, Dickinson And 4
#12320 Manikantan Jayaraman St-Ericsson Sa 4
#12320 Nathan C. Manley Asterias Biotherapeutics 4
#12320 Manoj Sudheendra Nutanix 4
#12320 Kai Min Apple 4
#12320 Jonathan C. Berry Argo Ai 4
#12320 Krishna Chaitanya Reddy Gangavaram Apple 4
#12320 Hau Ling Hung Qualcomm 4
#12320 Hanjun Dai Google 4
#12320 Chiragkumar P. Desai Cisco 4
#12320 Jason S. Burnett — 4
#12320 Myunghun Lee Samsung 4
#12320 Amit Kachroo Amazon 4
#12320 Sean R. Embry Ebay 4
#12320 Jenny Hyun Medamerica Data Services 4
#12320 Anil Somani Visa 4
#12320 Damien M. Pricolo — 4
#12320 Jivko Mihaylov Alio 4
#12320 Nicholas Paul Tokarz Rivian Ip Holdings 4
#12320 Ngoc The Pham Airmyne 4
#12320 Mengxiao Qian Zoom Communications 4
#12320 Sudheep K. Thota Amazon 4
#12320 Wesley Teskey Invensense 4
#12320 Zakirul Islam Tula Etechnology 4
#12320 Yiu F. Wong Omnivision Technologies 4
#12320 Zheng Li — 4
#12320 Gregory Patrick Davis Analog Devices 4
#12320 Nazumi Alice Yama-Dang Agilent Technologies 4
#12320 Hugh Pham Juul Labs 4
#12320 Tina Tsong Applied Materials 4
#12320 Hoang Huy Vu Brooks Automation Gmbh 4
#12320 Kristopher Hom Google 4
#12320 Chien-Yao LU Lumentum Operations 4
#12320 Vivek Sinha John Deere 4
#12320 Carlos Martin Terminel Iberri Ags 4
#12320 Uyen Nguyen Proteinsimple 4
#12320 James W. Lord Multilift 4
#12320 Soumil Ramesh Kulkarni Juniper Networks 4
#12320 Jeba Paulaiyan Juniper Networks 4

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