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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 Educational Testing Service, Dell Products, Texas Instruments. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 14,651–14,700 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#14517 Robert A. Pugh Educational Testing Service 3
#14517 Timothy Thinh Mai Dell Products 3
#14517 Manpo Kwong Texas Instruments 3
#14517 Larry R. Ramsauer — 3
#14517 Yang Lu Google 3
#14517 Ser-Hou Kuang Oracle 3
#14517 Chackan Lai Visa 3
#14517 Karthick Kumar Malli Raghavan Chargepoint 3
#14517 Preksha Bansal Netapp 3
#14517 Wilson Eng Sherwood Services Ag 3
#14517 Jeffrey Wen-Young Shih Cisco 3
#14517 Shih-Hsing Huang Lsi Logic 3
#14517 B. Sandhya Singh A.P. Pharma 3
#14517 Stephen J. Kim Apple 3
#14517 Ron Northrup Applied Materials 3
#14517 Mark Cecys Apple 3
#14517 Enrique Rafael Solorzano GE 3
#14517 Hancang Wang Cisco 3
#14517 Bert R. Larson Dysan 3
#14517 Janardhana Achladi Equinix 3
#14517 Robert C. DeNola The Mead 3
#14517 Gregory Enriquez Roku 3
#14517 Mahesh Siddappa Atmel 3
#14517 Shyamsundar Pullela Extreme Networks 3
#14517 Kevin DePetrillo AMD 3
#14517 Sreepathy Laxmanbabu Aida Qualcomm 3
#14517 Jeffrey DiMaria Lumileds 3
#14517 Bill Pennington Whitehat Security 3
#14517 Roberto Ortiz Faurecia Interior Systems 3
#14517 Donald E. Meyer — 3
#14517 Richard Clouss Logitech 3
#14517 Ali Mehrpour — 3
#14517 Vinayak Borkar Fireeye 3
#14517 Nahid Hassan Intel 3
#14517 Greg Woods — 3
#14517 Prasanna D. Mucharikar Juniper Networks 3
#14517 Doug Heineman Maxim Integrated Products 3
#14517 Gabriel Sanchez Droptop 3
#14517 Adarsh Seethanadi Nayak Broadcom 3
#14517 David Zalk Lawrence Livermore National Security 3
#14517 James H. Tangeman, Jr. Zume 3
#14517 Yehui Sun Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited 3
#14517 Mandeep Dhillon Ruggedcom 3
#14517 Michael Grow International Immunoassay Laboratories 3
#14517 Subodh Shakya Yahoo Holdings 3
#14517 Yue Xin PayPal 3
#14517 Daniel E. Gobera Rubalcava Apple 3
#14517 Daniel Joseph Lesieutre Analytical Mechanics Associates 3
#14517 Krishnakumar Govindarajalu PayPal 3
#14517 Niranjan Ramchandra Khasgiwale Applied Materials 3

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