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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 Invensense, HGST, Lumin. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 14,951–15,000 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#14517 Mars (Kuang-Li) Lee Invensense 3
#14517 Theofilos G. Fkiaras HGST 3
#14517 Suhas Maheshaiah Lumin 3
#14517 Lifan Yan Applied Materials 3
#14517 Chin-Yi Liu Lam Research 3
#14517 Eron Anthony Villarreal Scanadu Incorporated 3
#14517 Jamsheed Bugwadia Trapeze Networks 3
#14517 Charlie Tseng Wistron 3
#14517 Ty Doan Cadence Design Systems 3
#14517 I-Lan Sue Ancile Pharmaceuticals 3
#14517 Eugene Fleisher Pavillon Data Systems 3
#14517 Jiatai Wu Vce Ip Holding Company 3
#14517 Changsheng Zhao Samsung 3
#14517 Brittany D. Hughes Apple 3
#14517 SangHak Lim Cheil Industries 3
#14517 Brian Lathrop Volkswagen 3
#14517 Gerald Lopopolo Measurement Specialties 3
#14517 Ratnarekha Singamsetty ExxonMobil 3
#14517 Eddie Nelson Caggiani Zazzle 3
#14517 Bao Pham Igt 3
#14517 T. Greg Nguyen Io-Mega Holding 3
#14517 Derek Truesdale Anritsu 3
#14517 Dave Dooley Lear 3
#14517 Gamaethige Francis Robert Sulak Soysa Symbol Technologies 3
#14517 Amit Puri Applied Materials 3
#14517 Ganesh Maganti Salesforce 3
#14517 Timothy Valentine Apple 3
#14517 Norbert Runge Google 3
#14517 Robert W. Williams National Semiconductor 3
#14517 Saurabh Bhasin IBM 3
#14517 Vivianne M. Holt Endovascular Technologies 3
#14517 Helen Tran Baxter Healthcare 3
#14517 Philip N. Ballai Symbol Technologies 3
#14517 Vaibhav D. Patel Apple 3
#14517 Neil Latarche Verity Ag 3
#14517 Jan-Kwei J. Li Signetics 3
#14517 Ray Siruno Pavillon Data Systems 3
#14517 Sharad M. Shah AMD 3
#14517 Jamie Jien-Mei Yang Microsoft 3
#14517 Nicolas Torzec Yahoo Assets 3
#14517 Alex Vaz Waddington Google 3
#14517 Nancy Kang Amazon 3
#14517 Srinidhi Srinivasa Raghavan Amazon 3
#14517 Gwo-Jeng Lo Western Digital Technologies 3
#14517 Maria Garcia Cerdeno Twin Prime 3
#14517 Joseph F. Lutz — 3
#14517 Joao Dias Google 3
#14517 Prasanna CHALAPATHY Ericsson 3
#14517 Johnnie Tam Microsoft 3
#14517 Deepu Joseph Ebay 3

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