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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 Texas Instruments, Oracle, NVIDIA. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 14,851–14,900 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#14517 Jerry Krinock Texas Instruments 3
#14517 Barry Gordon Coleman Oracle 3
#14517 Kostadin Gitchev NVIDIA 3
#14517 William E. Kakes Apple 3
#14517 Rendell K. Fong Broadcom 3
#14517 Vivek Misra Adobe 3
#14517 Edward A. Seidman Workspot 3
#14517 Yifei Zhou AMD 3
#14517 Emmanuel W. Jee Broadcom 3
#14517 Bojana Spahic Advanced Cardiovascular Systems 3
#14517 Yatin Vasavada Workspot 3
#14517 Leo di Ricco Memorex 3
#14517 Majid K. Shahreza Applied Materials 3
#14517 Ronaldo S. Natividad Paccar 3
#14517 Long H. NGO Apple 3
#14517 Ravikumar Sanapala Kla-Tencor 3
#14517 Robert R. Griffith Oak Technology 3
#14517 Srirajkumar Sundararaman Cisco 3
#14517 Tongchuan Gao Mattson Technology 3
#14517 Scott K. Ko Google 3
#14517 Rajesh Khazanchi Broadcom 3
#14517 Alan Jeung PayPal 3
#14517 Steve Naroff Apple 3
#14517 Adrian Ramos Aguayo — 3
#14517 Karla Gutierrez Cuevas Orbotech 3
#14517 Soobin Cha Google 3
#14517 Jeffrey William Dietz Applied Materials 3
#14517 Warren M. Uesato — 3
#14517 Prasad V. Upadrasta Intel 3
#14517 Xiahui Yao Gru Energy Lab 3
#14517 Donald Lee Knaresboro RTX (Raytheon) 3
#14517 Adhip Gupta Arista Networks 3
#14517 William R. Apple Raynet 3
#14517 Licheng Tseng Dionex 3
#14517 Frederick S. Grennan IBM 3
#14517 Naveen Manicka Intel 3
#14517 Richard G. Norwood Crystal Technology 3
#14517 Yichuan Huang Meta 3
#14517 Hemant Patel Cisco 3
#14517 Kanting Tsai Disney 3
#14517 Masoud Eskandari Ikanos Communications 3
#14517 Di Meng Tcl Research America 3
#14517 Jeremy Engle Ebay 3
#14517 John Gabriel Buckmaster Apple 3
#14517 Jon Carlo Gueco Nutanix 3
#14517 Sharad Gandhi Salesforce 3
#14517 Mark Lykam Intel 3
#14517 Kamal KAJOUKE Visby Medical 3
#14517 Aoyu Chen Visa 3
#14517 Henry Jun Vlsi Technology 3

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