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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 Si-Bone, Google, CEA. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 14,401–14,450 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12320 Roxanne SIMON Si-Bone 4
#12320 Alexander Jay Converse Google 4
#12320 Alexandre Shirakawa CEA 4
#12320 Seyed Yahya Sotoudeh Intel 4
#12320 Timothy H. Cronin Pfizer 4
#12320 Christopher Sipanya Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 4
#12320 Vasantha K. Tammana Broadcom 4
#12320 John Smolka Integrated Device Technology 4
#12320 Anupama Chandwani Broadcom 4
#12320 Jia He Asia Optical Co. 4
#12320 Chris Zimmermann Apple 4
#12320 Haifeng Ji Microsoft 4
#12320 Glenn Ward Wickman ExxonMobil 4
#12320 Satyanarayana Rao Peddada Jds Uniphase 4
#12320 Prabhu Seshachellum Juniper Networks 4
#12320 Vasilis Efthymiou IBM 4
#12320 Nalini K. Kartha IBM 4
#12320 Raul Macatangay Teleflex Life Sciences 4
#12320 Nehru Bhandaru Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited 4
#12320 Soramany Ka Headway Technologies 4
#12320 Amarnath Ammireddy Ericsson 4
#12320 Debra Lavoy Meta 4
#12320 Fred Khosropour AMD 4
#12320 Hoang-Vu Dang State Farm 4
#12320 Damaris Davis Western Digital Technologies 4
#12320 Bhupesh Tuteja Walmart Apollo 4
#12320 Xiaoqiang SUN Amazon 4
#12320 Dossel Obrian Reid, Jr. Blue Kai 4
#12320 Leonidas Spinoulas Ricoh Company 4
#12320 Steve Sanchez Amazon 4
#12320 Rohan Mohan Rayaraddi Nutanix 4
#12320 James Knecht Space Systems/Loral 4
#12320 Alexander Sosa Dropbox 4
#12320 Randy Hew — 4
#12320 Lunzhi Liao Bloom Energy 4
#12320 Peter Andrew Kasting Google 4
#12320 Vikram Tolani Kla 4
#12320 Jiao LIANG Asml Netherlands B.V. 4
#12320 Mark W. Whittemore Apple 4
#12320 Arvind Narain Hewlett Packard Enterprise 4
#12320 Qingxiang Ke Varian Medical Systems 4
#12320 Oliver Krevet Apple 4
#12320 Chris Stephens Integrated Device Technology 4
#12320 Shivani Suresh Babu Apple 4
#12320 Eric O. Sunalp Apple 4
#12320 Philipp Beisel Rivian Ip Holdings 4
#12320 William Wiese AT&T 4
#12320 Fay Yew Energous 4
#12320 Andrew Urman Google 4
#12320 Mark Sompel Quantum 4

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