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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 Apple, Virtual Power Systems, Google. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 14,751–14,800 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#14517 Andrew M. Hulva Apple 3
#14517 Clark A. Jeria Frias Virtual Power Systems 3
#14517 Manjunath Kudlur Venkatakrishna Google 3
#14517 Kai Ng HP 3
#14517 Somarajan C. Ramakrishnan Cisco 3
#14517 Thomas E. Frayne IBM 3
#14517 Amirali S. Valiani Oracle 3
#14517 Timothy W. Wheeler Boston Scientific Limited 3
#14517 Mark Angelo Ams Trace Metals 3
#14517 Lie-Hwang Hwang Oracle 3
#14517 Jesus Carrero Cadence Design Systems 3
#14517 Pae Yoong Ng Super Micro Computer 3
#14517 David M. Nishijima Nissan North America 3
#14517 Jeffrey Pawlan — 3
#14517 Heng-Mun Lam AMD 3
#14517 James F. McKevitt, III Intel 3
#14517 Tat Leung Chung Oracle 3
#14517 Jeremy Liang Trend Micro Incorporated 3
#14517 Dana Rose Intel 3
#14517 Michael D. Rosotker Lsi Logic 3
#14517 Victor Polyanko Intel 3
#14517 Joel Wormer Honda Motor Co. 3
#14517 Rodica Florea Quantum 3
#14517 Zhigang Mao Applied Materials 3
#14517 Em Huynh Jelli 3
#14517 Xiaoyan Chang Pluris 3
#14517 Varadharajan Ponnappan Microsoft 3
#14517 Anuj Dua HP 3
#14517 Senthil Arumugam Cisco 3
#14517 Masiullah Razai — 3
#14517 Seul Ki Ahn Applied Materials 3
#14517 Jyh Cherng Lin Black & Decker 3
#14517 Marius Paul Dumitrean Velodyne Lidar 3
#14517 Greg Anthony Vannoni PayPal 3
#14517 Sami Ben Romdhane — 3
#14517 Mohammadinamul Hasan Sheik Google 3
#14517 David Clear Pensando Systems 3
#14517 Sheldon L. Matlow Northrop 3
#14517 Weicheng Joseph Ku Certicom 3
#14517 Tadaaki Shimada Apple 3
#14517 Mark Hiura — 3
#14517 Sunil Parthasarathy Cisco 3
#14517 Jinxin Dong Dten 3
#14517 Eric Modica Analog Devices 3
#14517 Yih-Chuan S. Chen Broadcom 3
#14517 Armik A. Hakhverdian — 3
#14517 David S. Lowrie Lsi 3
#14517 David Conrad Stegmeir Qorvo Us 3
#14517 Chuck Kelly Siemens Rolm Communications 3
#14517 Yuanzhen Zhuang Lumentum Operations 3

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