Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Sept 30, 2025

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 Capital One Services, Commscope, Inc. Of North Carolina, Stanford University. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 15,001–15,050 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#14517 Michelle Nguyen Capital One Services 3
#14517 Russell Lewis Ernest Blanchard Commscope, Inc. Of North Carolina 3
#14517 Byron M. Yu Stanford University 3
#14517 Paul F. Wilms IBM 3
#14517 Kenneth W. Quan, Jr. Scimed Life Systems 3
#14517 Bharath Mukundakrishnan Aerion Intellectual Property Management 3
#14517 Karunakaran Karuppiah IBM 3
#14517 Ebrahim Forati Tdk 3
#14517 Jeff Jiao Via Technologies 3
#14517 Novaira Masood Apple 3
#14517 Ganesh Adkasthala GANAPATHI BATTA Apple 3
#14517 Xuan Dai Pham Lattice Semiconductor 3
#14517 Sylvia Helena Florez Marino HGST 3
#14517 Himanshu Pokhama Intel 3
#14517 Linghan Cai Sony 3
#14517 Vinod Kuniganahalli Rai Texas Instruments 3
#14517 Robert C. Robnett Starfish Software 3
#14517 Sundari Voruganti IBM 3
#14517 Raymond Hoagland Capital One Services 3
#14517 James A. Kuhn, II Fmc 3
#14517 Yuan Quan IBM 3
#14517 Benoit Herve Robert Bosch Gmbh 3
#14517 Waseem Akram SYED Intuit 3
#14517 John Gates Gte Government Systems 3
#14517 Ganesha Adkasthala Ganapathi Bata Apple 3
#14517 Tina Ton Endovascular Technologies 3
#14517 Joe Kramer Solexel 3
#14517 Rocco Matricardi Adva Optical Networking Se 3
#14517 Maocheng Hu Arris Enterprises 3
#14517 Elaine C. He Teledex 3
#14517 Manuel Rosendo Arana Manzano Amazon 3
#14517 Nanheng Wu A9.Com 3
#14517 Martin R. Torres GE 3
#14517 Govindarajan Thattaisundaram Kla-Tencor 3
#14517 Sharon E. Friesen Apple 3
#14517 Ralph B. Ahlgren Northwestern University 3
#14517 Yu-Jen Hsiao National Applied Research Laboratories 3
#14517 Eduardo Inzunza Viavi Solutions 3
#14517 Pankaj P. Painuly Realization Technologies 3
#14517 Chengjiang Mao 3
#14517 Mark J. Levy Behring Diagnostics Gmbh 3
#14517 Nicole Lee Birdsall Ebay 3
#14517 Raghavender Pillutla Oracle 3
#14517 Choong Ryeol Lee Amazon 3
#14517 Michelle Michael 3
#14517 Albert K. Hu 3
#14517 Brian Weinstein Apple 3
#14517 Sanjay S. Gadkari Apple 3
#14517 Jason Trung Hoa Tang Cisco 3
#14517 Haiou Wang PayPal 3

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