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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 3Dgeo Development, A10 Networks, Incorporated, Lumileds. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 15,251–15,300 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#14517 Ovidiu Feodorov 3Dgeo Development 3
#14517 Diptanshu Purwar A10 Networks, Incorporated 3
#14517 Iain Black Lumileds 3
#14517 James P. Busche IBM 3
#14517 Tom Tate Apple 3
#14517 Chris Lam Mstar Semiconductor 3
#14517 Faraz Mohammad Mirzaei — 3
#14517 Hans P. W. Hey AT&T 3
#14517 Pat Wallace Symbol Technologies 3
#14517 William Eugene Gunnther Hamilton Cisco 3
#14517 Ian Chang Netapp 3
#14517 Cyrous Gheyri — 3
#14517 Naga Sunil Tripirineni Cloudflare 3
#14517 Steven P. Wisner Sony 3
#14517 John Robert Read Sandisk Technologies 3
#14517 Paul W. T. Heller Cirrus Logic 3
#14517 Jenny Y. Mui GE 3
#14517 Tom Tse AMD 3
#14517 Arun Navasivasakthivelsamy Nutanix 3
#14517 Jongryool Kim Sk Hynix 3
#14517 Vlad Popescu-Stanesti 02Micro International Limited 3
#14517 Marianna C. Sbordone Apple 3
#14517 Mark Abene Intersections 3
#14517 Xiaosong Zhu Huawei 3
#14517 Sang Hui Michael Kim Sk Hynix 3
#14517 Zian Huang Visa 3
#14517 Steven Neil Simon Apple 3
#14517 Sean Ghiocel Twingate 3
#14517 Jyotika Singh Oracle 3
#14517 William J. Renteria Atari 3
#14517 Peter A. Swenson Access Closure 3
#14517 Brad Jarvinen Palmsource 3
#14517 Sunita Chulani IBM 3
#14517 Raju R. Joag Infineon Technologies Ag 3
#14517 Donald J. Esses Lsi Logic 3
#14517 Brooke K. Callahan Apple 3
#14517 Amal Akbar Sk Hynix 3
#14517 Robert Coleman Springer, IV Google 3
#14517 Adam T. Moerschell Apple 3
#14517 Chethan Channappa Cisco 3
#14517 Ragupathy V. Giridhar Intel 3
#14517 Carl John Lindeborg Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited 3
#14517 Zbigniew W. Blaszczyk Cisco 3
#14517 Jerome Parker Lane Intuit 3
#14517 Ranjith Ranganathan Qualcomm 3
#14517 Travis D. Medley, Jr. — 3
#14517 Lisa King Palm Firm 3
#14517 Vasudev Krishnamoorthy Xactly 3
#14517 Ilya Krivorotov US Army 3
#14517 Edgar Ignacio Ergueta Tejerina Verb Surgical 3

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