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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 Apple, Cisco, Grey Orange Pte.. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 14,351–14,400 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12320 Erin M. Bosch Apple 4
#12320 Felice Bonardi Cisco 4
#12320 Anirudh Singh Shekhawat Grey Orange Pte. 4
#12320 Aniruddha Dhamal PayPal 4
#12320 Chirranjeevi Balaji Gopal Toyota 4
#12320 Michael James Louris Google 4
#12320 Huiping Huang Synopsys 4
#12320 Ian Smith Zoll Circulation 4
#12320 Robert Seon Wai Lee Apple 4
#12320 Ngoc Mai Thi Nguyen Danmarks Tekniske Universitet 4
#12320 John T. Leonard Apple 4
#12320 Shiqi Sun AMD 4
#12320 Richard Kettlewell Thales E-Security 4
#12320 Nesreen Ahmed Intel 4
#12320 Chenxi Huang Cypress Semiconductor 4
#12320 Gurunath Dollin AMD 4
#12320 Zhiwei Cen Google 4
#12320 Satya THOKACHICHU Applied Materials 4
#12320 Sha Lu China University Of Geosciences 4
#12320 Jifei Song Futurewei Technologies 4
#12320 Steven Xing Intel 4
#12320 Paul T. Chi Smule 4
#12320 Dave Stephenson Arris Enterprises 4
#12320 Stephen James THOMAS Vlsi Technology 4
#12320 Taegui Kim Apple 4
#12320 Srinivasan Sethuraman Qualcomm 4
#12320 Benjamin Francois Maxeon Solar Pte. 4
#12320 Mikhail Chetin Cadence Design Systems 4
#12320 Ilya Shlimenzon Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 4
#12320 William Cheung Intel 4
#12320 Pratima Bapusaheb Kudale Commvault Systems 4
#12320 Christopher M. Bell Apple 4
#12320 Zuo Xia Apple 4
#12320 Philip Aiello UPS 4
#12320 Arron Mollet Nex Team 4
#12320 Neema Rastgar Lam Research 4
#12320 Arpana Hosabettu Google 4
#12320 Yingxian Wang Broadcom 4
#12320 Yiming Jen Pinterest 4
#12320 Wenjing Liang Aeva 4
#12320 Myra L. Fabro Avinger 4
#12320 Ronald W. Jimenez — 4
#12320 Gregory Ford Pollock Upguard 4
#12320 Nachiket Deo Box 4
#12320 Steven H. Reis Amazon 4
#12320 Richard S. D'Alo Lg Innotek Co. 4
#12320 Lily Pay Cambrios Film Solutons 4
#12320 Dhammika L. Perera — 4
#12320 Varshini Sriram U.S. Bank National Association 4
#12320 Sankiran Srinath PayPal 4

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