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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 Aspect Communications, IBM, Cypress Semiconductor. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 15,051–15,100 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#14517 David Glassman Aspect Communications 3
#14517 Velnambi Yogalingam IBM 3
#14517 Jinghui Mu Cypress Semiconductor 3
#14517 Chieu Yin Chia Spansion Llc. 3
#14517 Ivan Bojer Canon 3
#14517 Gang (Tiger) Lan Reputation.Com 3
#14517 Joseph Gregory Rollins Synopsys 3
#14517 Gian Mario Manca Synaptics Incorporated 3
#14517 Stephanie Lee Avive Solutions 3
#14517 William L. Manofsky, Jr. Applied Materials 3
#14517 Shuqi Zheng Skyworks Solutions 3
#14517 Douglas K. Ethridge GE 3
#14517 Edsel San Diego Depuy Synthes Products 3
#14517 Doug LaPorte Linear Technology Holding 3
#14517 Mimi Munson Tantillo Flextronics Ap 3
#14517 Sandeep Shyamsukha NVIDIA 3
#14517 Hanh Thuy Phan Amazon 3
#14517 Raymond Lim Rec Solar Pte. 3
#14517 Sheue-Ling Chang Oracle 3
#14517 Shemshon Lazari — 3
#14517 Daphne Irene Gorman Apple 3
#14517 Stanislaw Marek Borowicz — 3
#14517 Seok Chul Kwon Apple 3
#14517 Mehrdad Samadani — 3
#14517 Alexey Galata Google 3
#14517 Nicolai Munk Petersen Samsung 3
#14517 Khaireddine Mazboudi Zscaler 3
#14517 Siddhartha Misra Intuit 3
#14517 FNU Sridhar Vinay Cisco 3
#14517 Reza Azizian General Motors 3
#14517 Barun Halder Pensando Systems 3
#14517 Nikolaos Malandrakis University Of Southern California 3
#14517 Dana Burkart Boomi, Lp 3
#14517 Lealon C. Wimpee GE 3
#14517 J. Keenan Brown Adac Laboratories 3
#14517 Umang Parekh AMD 3
#14517 Malcolm C. Easton IBM 3
#14517 Yi Linda Chan Microsoft 3
#14517 Bhavani Gopalakrishna Rao NVIDIA 3
#14517 Harini Sridharan Microsoft 3
#14517 Tianyang Ding Agere Systems 3
#14517 Jack Cai Dst Output 3
#14517 Robert G. Hayter, II — 3
#14517 Val N. Morozov Jds Uniphase 3
#14517 Pere Joan Monclus Argany Cisco 3
#14517 Rekha Vaidyanathan Incube Labs 3
#14517 David Lindskog Amazon 3
#14517 Peter Ishiguro Lab2Fab 3
#14517 Wu Guan Samsung 3
#14517 John Thomas Welder Cisco 3

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