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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, NVIDIA, Lucira Health. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 14,451–14,500 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12320 Martin Salvador Samsung 4
#12320 Benjamin D. Faulkner NVIDIA 4
#12320 Faisal S. Maniar Lucira Health 4
#12320 Aaron Neely Ashworth Bros. 4
#12320 S. Scot Cheu Valence Technology 4
#12320 Michael John MacDonald Molecular Devices 4
#12320 Sparsh Garg Nec 4
#12320 Apoorv Parle NVIDIA 4
#12320 Avinash Kalyanaraman Robert Bosch Gmbh 4
#12320 Lingxiang Xiang Intel 4
#12320 Srinivas Swaminathan Disney 4
#12320 Julian QUINTANA Apple 4
#12320 Matthew Stevenson Leolabs 4
#12320 Vijayan Satyamoorthy Srinivasa Pure Storage 4
#12320 Krishnakanth Batta PayPal 4
#12320 Morgyn Taylor Imagination Technologies Limited 4
#12320 Richard Fuhler Synopsys 4
#12320 Prasun Singh Hitachi 4
#12320 Michael Kass NVIDIA 4
#12320 Fujun Luan Adobe 4
#12320 Sara Ansaloni Rani Therapeutics 4
#12320 Bharatwaj Ramakrishnan Applied Materials 4
#12320 Vinay Ganesh Apple 4
#12320 Eunsuk Ko Lam Research 4
#12320 Parathan Sivagnanasundaram Amazon 4
#12320 Supreeth Sanur Commvault Systems 4
#12320 Caleb K. Lo Samsung 4
#12320 Anastasios Arvanitis Tula Etechnology 4
#12320 Seth Schneider NVIDIA 4
#12320 Darin Byron Johnson Itron 4
#12320 Charles Bailley Navitas Semiconductor Limited 4
#12320 Chejung Liu Cisco 4
#12320 Theodore Yu Apple 4
#12320 Xiaoqing Tao Rubrik 4
#12320 Rajasekhar Bhogi Ebay 4
#12320 Jorge Morinigo Apple 4
#12320 Rushil Grover Google 4
#12320 Sreejith Mohanan Nutanix 4
#12320 Anshul Varma Mediatek Singapore Pte. 4
#12320 Morteza Amoorezaei Apple 4
#12320 Ali Reza Afshari Unknown 4
#12320 Haiming Gang Honda Motor Co. 4
#12320 Gopi Krishna Tummala Qualcomm 4
#12320 Robert D. Hemming Vlsi Technology 4
#12320 Omkumar Mahalingam PayPal 4
#12320 Gregory M. Kimball Caltech 4
#12320 Kevin B. Skahill Cypress Semiconductor 4
#12320 John Novotny Am International 4
#12320 London Jin Adaptec 4
#12320 Xiaoqiang Yao Lam Research 4

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