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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 Advantest, Hitachi Micro Systems, Applied Materials. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 14,501–14,550 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12320 Robert Bartlett Advantest 4
#12320 Tsu-Wei Ku Hitachi Micro Systems 4
#12320 Esmail Zayeratabat — 4
#12320 Hongquing Shan Applied Materials 4
#12320 James Chen IBM 4
#12320 John Bernstein Fotomedia Technologies 4
#12320 Rohit Anand Fedane Cisco 4
#12320 Karen Ann Bradley Cisco 4
#12320 Daniel Tsai Texas Instruments 4
#12320 Chang-Tying Wu Adaptec 4
#12320 Michael Cain Ingersoll-Rand 4
#12320 Maxim Bakaleynik Teledex 4
#12320 Al H. Marquez — 4
#12320 Stuart Butterworth Coherent 4
#12320 T. G. Beck Mason Finisar 4
#12320 Bruce T. Arasato Meyer Sound Laboratories, Incorporated 4
#14517 Valeri J. Yee Ebay 3
#14517 Tommy Park Hoffmann-La Roche 3
#14517 Venkatesh Badakere Ramachandra — 3
#14517 John Cherniavsky Oracle 3
#14517 Sharon Kojima Ricoh Company 3
#14517 Harihar J. Vyas Nazomi Communications 3
#14517 Deborah A. Sohrweide AMD 3
#14517 Eujin Lee Samsung 3
#14517 Matthieu Minault Reich Maxeon Solar Pte. 3
#14517 Eric Robert Lindblom Iconix 3
#14517 Chien-Chu Kuo Cadence Design Systems 3
#14517 Rodolfo Gonzales Ebay 3
#14517 Michael S. Rovner D2Audio 3
#14517 Chung-Liang Yen Avid Electronics 3
#14517 Rick Allan Sprague IBM 3
#14517 Vinay Kalra Google 3
#14517 Clive Blackledge PayPal 3
#14517 Yinong Zhang Nanjing Zgmicro Company Limited 3
#14517 William J. Harmon, Jr. AMD 3
#14517 Tom S. Wei Zilog 3
#14517 Kenny Wen — 3
#14517 Joseph J. Pesek — 3
#14517 Gireesh Sreepathi Ebay 3
#14517 Dar-Der Chang Seagate Technology 3
#14517 Steve Montesanto Kla-Tencor 3
#14517 Venkata Kalyan Sanaboyina PayPal 3
#14517 Robert J. Andrzejewski Rearden 3
#14517 Gail R. Snyder Digital Communications Associates 3
#14517 Jeou-Rong Lay IBM 3
#14517 Wen-Chein David Hsiao IBM 3
#14517 William C. Laumeister — 3
#14517 Lee D. Nguyentran HGST 3
#14517 Yaowei Jia Ansys 3
#14517 Benoit le Bourgeois Atlis Motor Vehicles 3

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