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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 AMD, PayPal, Samsung. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 15,101–15,150 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#14517 Gregory J. Aldrich AMD 3
#14517 Siddharth Reddy Malkireddy PayPal 3
#14517 Changhui Lin Samsung 3
#14517 Nancy Tran Lam Research 3
#14517 Brian Dombrowski — 3
#14517 Joy Sato Yahoo Holdings 3
#14517 Pei Ouyang Verisity Design 3
#14517 Saied Kochesfahani Imerys Talc America 3
#14517 Tellis Hartridge Cardinal Health Switzerland 515 Gmbh 3
#14517 MinhHung Canh Nguyen Telenav 3
#14517 Ken Dorf Methode Electronics 3
#14517 Susan Holl Intel 3
#14517 Luke S. Tomasello Intertrust Technologies 3
#14517 Kuo-Tsai Li TSMC 3
#14517 Christopher K. Koverman Getgo 3
#14517 Lior Malka Intel 3
#14517 Rachel Kumar Microsoft 3
#14517 Hai Shum — 3
#14517 Phillip A. Kamp Apple 3
#14517 Gregory F. Wetzel Covad Communications 3
#14517 Richard Victor Nygord Apple 3
#14517 Charalampos (Harry) Contopanagos Energous 3
#14517 Minh Anh Do Bay Networks, Nc. 3
#14517 Cynthia Hiatt Avaya 3
#14517 Ed Kern Cisco 3
#14517 Amar Vutukuru Brocade Communications Systems 3
#14517 Wilson Yang IBM 3
#14517 Ronald Jacobs — 3
#14517 Naresh K. Govindaraj IBM 3
#14517 Tzi-Cheng Lai Kla 3
#14517 Richard D. J. Duce AMD 3
#14517 Qingbiao Deng Synaptics Incorporated 3
#14517 Narasimha Kaushik Narahari National Semiconductor 3
#14517 Jeffrey M. McKay IBM 3
#14517 Felino E. Pagaduan AMD 3
#14517 Daniel M. Haller IBM 3
#14517 Dave Pechner Sa Photonics 3
#14517 Rana Alotaibi IBM 3
#14517 R. Sjhon Minners Simpler Networks 3
#14517 Garry Pycroft Amkor Technology 3
#14517 Florian Miles PONSON Apple 3
#14517 Ming-Li Lin Samsung 3
#14517 Prafulla Kumar Choubey Salesforce 3
#14517 Vijayakumar Kothandaraman Cisco 3
#14517 Jonathan Smiley Quantcast 3
#14517 Romulo Ata Seagate Technology 3
#14517 Leo Petropoulos — 3
#14517 Dennis Warren Koo Tze Mew PayPal 3
#14517 Michael Cheng Amazon 3
#14517 Zixiao Yu Tcl Research America 3

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