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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 Activevideo Networks, Apple, IBM. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 15,301–15,350 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#14517 Dengzhi Zhang Activevideo Networks 3
#14517 Emmanuele Spera Apple 3
#14517 Eric Kay IBM 3
#14517 Suzy K. Chang PayPal 3
#14517 Badrinarayanan Thiruvengadaswamy Bloom Energy 3
#14517 Pavan Kumar Tappal Ramakrishnaiah Juniper Networks 3
#14517 Qoang Rung Bih Micro Lithography 3
#14517 Soon G Lim Nxp Usa 3
#14517 Dana J. Topping — 3
#14517 Brian Choy Transmeta 3
#14517 Muhammad Moizuddin Cisco 3
#14517 William Irving Leavitt Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited 3
#14517 Jarom Severson 2 Hh 3
#14517 Vishal Aggarwal PayPal 3
#14517 Cynthia Villanueva Amo Development 3
#14517 Samuel Toba Synaptics Incorporated 3
#14517 Andrew Perrucci RTX (Raytheon) 3
#14517 Nicholas Vaccaro Amazon 3
#14517 Frank Tuzzolino Pure Storage 3
#14517 Louis Guillen National Institute Of Clean-And-Low-Carbon Energy 3
#14517 Thao Pham IBM 3
#14517 Brian BAILEY Stryker 3
#14517 Paul Henneuse Analog Devices 3
#14517 Hussam I. Ramlaoui Palmchip 3
#14517 Douglas J. Gallinat Acuson 3
#14517 Shanmugasundaram Veliah Open Text 3
#14517 Mythil Raman Extreme Networks 3
#14517 Sudhakar Allada National Semiconductor 3
#14517 Mark Xiang-Quan Huang Futurewei Technologies 3
#14517 Raymond Gristi Applied Materials 3
#14517 Daya Krishna Apple 3
#14517 Sivanesh Palanivel Tesla 3
#14517 Laura Mirkarimi Xcelsis 3
#14517 Raymond E. Garcia IBM 3
#14517 Soham Asrani Applied Materials 3
#14517 David Narajowski Syng 3
#14517 John P. Lazarus IBM 3
#14517 Binh Nguyen Applied Materials 3
#14517 Man Pun Chan Mediatek Singapore Pte. 3
#14517 Yuri Syrov Align Technology 3
#14517 Kyou H. Lee Komag 3
#14517 Ishita Satishchandra Desai Synopsys 3
#14517 Jane Kim — 3
#14517 John Michael Gross Fluidmaster 3
#14517 Akash Sridhara Acharya Rivian Ip Holdings 3
#14517 Loren Weith Zscaler 3
#14517 Wesley A. Howell Becton, Dickinson And 3
#14517 Shizu Li X-Scan Imaging 3
#14517 Hoa-Binh Thi Tu IBM 3
#14517 Darron Werner Fick Echelon 3

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