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

Showing 14,601–14,650 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#14517 Rudolf Grimm Agilent Technologies 3
#14517 Thomas R. Luce Apple 3
#14517 Lekhanh Dang Cisco 3
#14517 Kevin Camara — 3
#14517 Kristen Pham 10X Genomics 3
#14517 Meera Siva Extreme Networks 3
#14517 Siucheong Kenny Tse IBM 3
#14517 Paul G. Schroeder Maxim Integrated Products 3
#14517 Xuquan Lin Zuora 3
#14517 David L. Bowman Apple 3
#14517 Vijay R. Bommireddipalli IBM 3
#14517 Willie Thomas Glover Network Equipment Technologies 3
#14517 Tilman Sporkert Oracle 3
#14517 Alan Herring Gainspan 3
#14517 Tengfei Miao Lam Research 3
#14517 Krithivasan Nagarajan Ebay 3
#14517 Lee Snyder Applied Signal Technology 3
#14517 Daryl M. Shiraki Komag 3
#14517 Ramanujan Puranam Infinera 3
#14517 Yannis Sismanis IBM 3
#14517 Kuangmin Li Samsung 3
#14517 Kavish Pahade Netapp 3
#14517 Du-Tuan Lam Nortel Networks Limited 3
#14517 Dikshit Garg Apple 3
#14517 Robert Pompeani Power Standards Lab 3
#14517 Jigar K. Savla Juniper Networks 3
#14517 Robert Alan Bignell NVIDIA 3
#14517 Roulhwai Chen Hematronix 3
#14517 Bradley Albert Grantham NVIDIA 3
#14517 Hitoshi Oi Fujitsu Limited 3
#14517 Wung K. Lee — 3
#14517 Phuc Hong Ngo Zuna 3
#14517 Sagar Trehan Hewlett Packard Enterprise 3
#14517 Bu Qi Cheng Intel 3
#14517 Matthieu Jeanson Magnum Semiconductor 3
#14517 Tony Chou Varmour Networks 3
#14517 James Gavin Erbes Servicenow 3
#14517 Soujanya Venigalla Micron 3
#14517 Stuart Stephen Papworth Parkin — 3
#14517 Edward P. Hutchins Chips And Technologies, Llc. 3
#14517 Jeremy Olsen Api Market 3
#14517 Primit Modi Sandisk Technologies 3
#14517 Boris Djurovic Solyndra 3
#14517 Andrew Steven Long Dropbox 3
#14517 Howard Hungchi Chung Acellent Technologies 3
#14517 Thomas E. McCloskey Lockheed Martin 3
#14517 Miguel A. Vilchis Lsi 3
#14517 Amirhossein Farvardin Verb Surgical 3
#14517 Sourabh Pawar Amazon 3
#14517 Long Tran Oracle 3

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