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

Showing 14,801–14,850 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#14517 Manjunathaharsha Nagaraju Cisco 3
#14517 Joshua Greenwell PayPal 3
#14517 S. Rao Peddada Lumileds 3
#14517 Michael Ackeret Agere Systems Guardian 3
#14517 Thomas R. Tate Apple 3
#14517 Rahima K. Mohammed Intel 3
#14517 Hongjie Liang Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 3
#14517 Hsiang-Fu Yu A9.Com 3
#14517 Nagendra Akula Suresh Babu Amazon 3
#14517 Hanwoong Sohn Silicon Image 3
#14517 Pradeep Shettigar Invensense 3
#14517 John A. Mezak Eaton 3
#14517 Shelendra Sharma Mcafee 3
#14517 Gene Weddle Oak Technology 3
#14517 Khatereh Hajizadeh Lento Medical 3
#14517 Payson Johnston Agora Intelligence 3
#14517 Kirill NEGODA Apple 3
#14517 Glenn J. Mooty — 3
#14517 Gregoire Denis Lumileds 3
#14517 Brian Geroge Reeve 3Com 3
#14517 Joel Esparza — 3
#14517 Garrett T. Oakes HGST 3
#14517 Amitava Chattopadhyay HGST 3
#14517 Shrenik Milapchand Apple 3
#14517 Stephen J. Kaylor Westinghouse Electric 3
#14517 Laura L. Buelteman Syntex (U.S.A.) 3
#14517 Harry Otto Radke IBM 3
#14517 Robin Glinton Sears Brands, L.L.C. 3
#14517 Song San Lee Fiberstar 3
#14517 Derek B. Noonburg S3 Graphics Co. 3
#14517 Alok Nandini Roy Cypress Semiconductor 3
#14517 Gaspard van Koningsveld Palantir Technologies 3
#14517 Ronald Barthold Arps IBM 3
#14517 Zhong Tao Hologic 3
#14517 Boyd Gayle Pett Cirrus Logic 3
#14517 Miguel Gandara Mediatek Singapore Pte. 3
#14517 Ila BADGE Qualcomm 3
#14517 Jeremy Schiel Orbit Fab 3
#14517 Thomas B. Brezocsky Applied Materials 3
#14517 Thiet Pham — 3
#14517 Smriti Desai Broadcom 3
#14517 Katherine T. M. Tran HGST 3
#14517 Xinyu Zhang Ebay 3
#14517 Gregory Shirin Oracle 3
#14517 Nitin Ramchandani IBM 3
#14517 Soon Lim Micrel 3
#14517 Wenpeng Zhao Nio (Anhui) Holding Co. 3
#14517 Qazi Mahmood AMD 3
#14517 Edouard Semanoukian Jabil 3
#14517 Kirk Hsueh-kai Young Incept 3

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