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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 Lockheed Martin, IBM, Netflix. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 15,401–15,450 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#14517 John E. Bonham Lockheed Martin 3
#14517 Tak-Ming Lo IBM 3
#14517 Rico Nasol Netflix 3
#14517 Douglas E. McCracken Bentek 3
#14517 Tash Hepting Extreme Networks 3
#14517 Cong Ding Zhejiang University Of Technology 3
#14517 Addison Page Phillips Amazon 3
#14517 Viral Modi Qualcomm 3
#14517 Chang Chul Ha Cdream 3
#14517 Raymond R. Jin Applied Materials 3
#14517 Sal Mangano Relign 3
#14517 Hailey Ann Scimone Slice 3
#14517 Peter WOOD Kodak Alaris 3
#14517 Robert Joseph Plumeau Blue River Technology 3
#14517 Gabriel Andres Velasco IBM 3
#14517 Zhiruo Cao A10 Networks, Incorporated 3
#14517 Jan A. Smudski Intel 3
#14517 Eddy Wayne Chow Advantest 3
#14517 Lihan Chang Disney 3
#14517 Juay Kwang Tan Oracle 3
#14517 G. Alagiri Comdial 3
#14517 Dmitry Karpov Teledyne Lecroy 3
#14517 Aikepaer Abuduweili Cisco 3
#14517 Angel Rodriguez onsemi 3
#14517 Vinit Apte Samsung 3
#14517 Bhargav Raman Stanford University 3
#14517 Jane S. Prugsanapan Tandem Computers Incorporated 3
#14517 Jeffrey A. Harnois, II Reputation.Com 3
#14517 Bhaskar R. Adavi Apple 3
#14517 Nagesh Bangalore Lakshminarayana Disney 3
#14517 Andrew Mangogna Incube Labs 3
#14517 Kevin Kiyoshi Matsuo Dell Products 3
#14517 Yongju Kwak NVIDIA 3
#14517 Henry Chang IBM 3
#14517 Thuong Ho Bluefox 3
#14517 Ryan Meonske Servicenow 3
#14517 Joseph Everett Bentley Amazon 3
#14517 Daniel Casadevall Pino Niantic 3
#14517 Ira Finkelstein De La Rue Giori S.A. 3
#14517 John Schultz University of California 3
#14517 Jeff Tingley Broadcom 3
#14517 Anita Hong Anaspec 3
#14517 Mikhail Galburt Emc 3
#14517 Rick William Umstattd Litepoint 3
#14517 Monica Hua Veex 3
#14517 You Zheng Headway Technologies 3
#14517 Yevgeny Fridman — 3
#14517 Yao-Tsung HSIEH Institute Of Nuclear Energy Research 3
#14517 Gregory B. Ennis Symbol Technologies 3
#14517 Ryan Conner Kci Licensing 3

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