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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 Seeq Technology, Incorporated, Advantest Test Solutions, Lexisnexis Risk Solutions Fl. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 15,151–15,200 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#14517 Woo-Ping Lai Seeq Technology, Incorporated 3
#14517 Homayoun Rezai Advantest Test Solutions 3
#14517 Jason Saw — 3
#14517 Dean Weinert Lexisnexis Risk Solutions Fl 3
#14517 Anthony W. Serksnis Trimble Navigation Limited 3
#14517 Minsuk Heo Roku 3
#14517 Tri Thanh Khuong Tokyo Electron Limited 3
#14517 Edwin J. Hall Intertrust Technologies 3
#14517 Svetlana Sherman Applied Materials 3
#14517 Tim Carmichael Lsi Logic 3
#14517 Keith P. Minton Alza 3
#14517 Robert W. Engles IBM 3
#14517 John Burkey Apple 3
#14517 Sourav Kumar Patel Alliance For Sustainable Energy 3
#14517 Aakash Bordia IBM 3
#14517 Patrick O'Connell Infineon Technologies Ag 3
#14517 Archisman Bagchi — 3
#14517 RamaKrishna Raja Vegesna-Venkata Zoho Corporation Private Limited 3
#14517 Christopher M. Caniglio Apple 3
#14517 Gerard Kato Cypress Semiconductor 3
#14517 William VanHoomissen Kla-Tencor 3
#14517 Shwetha Ram Dolby Laboratories Licensing 3
#14517 Graham Gudgin Cisco 3
#14517 Richard L. Kalman Apple 3
#14517 Mu-Fan Chang Innolux 3
#14517 Gang Ning IBM 3
#14517 Marzieh Parandehgheibi General Motors 3
#14517 Cameron Hinkel Bigfoot Biomedical 3
#14517 Manikandan Mariyappan Kla 3
#14517 Nicolas Huynh Apple 3
#14517 Philip J. Elizondo Candescent Technologies 3
#14517 Arlen M. Hartounian Apple 3
#14517 Huma Arastu Incube Labs 3
#14517 Timothy V. Thompson Ultrapointe 3
#14517 Peter Carlotto Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha 3
#14517 Syed A. Alam Applied Materials 3
#14517 Todd Christopher Klaus Open Invention Network Llc Nc 3
#14517 Everett Lyons, IV Western Digital Technologies 3
#14517 Ashfaque Uddin Invensense 3
#14517 Adil Majid Palantir Technologies 3
#14517 Guiqiang Dong Skyera 3
#14517 Marek J. Fridrich Echelon Systems 3
#14517 Narayanaswamy Pasupathy Seagate Technology 3
#14517 Chung-Ning Wang Synaptics Incorporated 3
#14517 Rini Kundu Ebay 3
#14517 Andrew Dennis Hamel Amazon 3
#14517 Mohammad Reza Ghajar Apple 3
#14517 Benjamin Sanker Verb Surgical 3
#14517 Tony Sonthe Nguyen Brocade Communications Systems 3
#14517 James Delli Santi Samsung 3

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