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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 Logicvision, Lifescan, Nutanix. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 14,901–14,950 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#14517 Sonny Ngai San Shum Logicvision 3
#14517 Mimi Diemmy Dao Lifescan 3
#14517 Sri Ranga Teja Kolli Nutanix 3
#14517 Kevin Perillo — 3
#14517 Cuong Si The Dong Salesforce 3
#14517 Gregg L. McKee Fmc 3
#14517 Emad Afifi Integrated Device Technology 3
#14517 Ian Minett Creative Technology 3
#14517 Tan C. Dadurian Lsi Logic 3
#14517 Minh Quang Diep Advantest 3
#14517 Vadan Thimmegowda Cisco 3
#14517 Chun-Hong Liu Adlink Technology 3
#14517 Sathya Narayanan Kasturi Rangan Nio Usa 3
#14517 Stuart G. Solomon Lrs 3
#14517 Kieran Dimond Apple 3
#14517 Steven Mueller IBM 3
#14517 Trung Thuc Nguyen Seagate Technology 3
#14517 Wing Hui Sk Hynix Memory Solutions 3
#14517 Nara Rajagopalan Fortinet 3
#14517 Min Lee CNRS 3
#14517 Sunil K. Tripathy Intuit 3
#14517 Murali Nandigama Oracle 3
#14517 Barry Schwartz Netapp 3
#14517 Lucas Parry — 3
#14517 Ronnie Northrup Applied Materials 3
#14517 Robert F. Garry, Jr. Diablo Research 3
#14517 Mahendra Malviya Equinix 3
#14517 Chiara Poletti PayPal 3
#14517 Vaibhav Karkare Silicon Laboratories 3
#14517 Derek Tsai Oracle 3
#14517 Asit Rairkar Beijing Apollo Ding Rong Solar Technology Co. 3
#14517 John Jian-Gang Ding Software Site Applications, Limited Liability 3
#14517 Ho Hyung Lee Apple 3
#14517 Ben Reese — 3
#14517 Edward Kandrot Apple 3
#14517 Shannon Eliuk DIXON Thermo Finnigan 3
#14517 Eric Youngman Cisco 3
#14517 Thomas F. Roth IBM 3
#14517 Hans-Martin Krober Microsoft 3
#14517 Warren Menezes Disney 3
#14517 Martin A. Dorey Hitachi Data Systems Engineering Uk Limited 3
#14517 Yaeli Cohen PayPal 3
#14517 David Jea Juniper Networks 3
#14517 Mehri Mafi — 3
#14517 Zhixian Yan Samsung 3
#14517 Vijay Sankar Kioxia 3
#14517 Jacob Andrew Latone Danisco Us 3
#14517 Andrei Leonid Osnovich NVIDIA 3
#14517 Amir Beygi Samsung 3
#14517 Naveen Chandra Gorijala Broadcom 3

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