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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 Energous, Princeton University, Alexza Pharmaceuticals. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 15,451–15,500 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#14517 Tuomo Katajamaki Energous 3
#14517 Hongxu Yin Princeton University 3
#14517 Lily GONG Alexza Pharmaceuticals 3
#14517 Kangkang Shen Futurewei Technologies 3
#14517 Russ Zandbergen Oracle 3
#14517 Jason Visneski Cisco 3
#14517 Scott Gauthier — 3
#14517 Amine Ben Khalifa Adobe 3
#14517 Balkar Sidhu Oracle 3
#14517 Heng Yun Dialog Semiconductor 3
#14517 Shiezen Steven Huang IBM 3
#14517 Atambir S. Rao GE 3
#14517 Hanqing Chen Hangzhou Santan Medical Technology Co. 3
#14517 Ratnakar Dadi Seagate Technology 3
#14517 Curt Beckmann Brocade Communications Systems 3
#14517 Jih-lung Wang Altierre 3
#14517 Judith Cutaran Aarts Microsoft 3
#14517 Dong-Bang Tsai Netflix 3
#14517 Gerald Law Ebay 3
#14517 Haijun She Invensense 3
#14517 Rajiv Joshi Visto 3
#14517 Albert K. Boyden Lockheed Martin 3
#14517 Arlene Suedmeyer Honeywell 3
#14517 Johnny L. Wall Apple 3
#14517 Nikolay Yeremin Bruker Nano 3
#14517 Yirng-An Chen Novas Software 3
#14517 Pankaj Kumar Rai Amazon 3
#14517 Adam Chuen-Huei Chou Rambus 3
#14517 Vyacheslav Leizerovich A9.Com 3
#14517 Howie Trang Read Rite 3
#14517 David Kenneth Fefferman PayPal 3
#14517 Karl Chen Microsoft 3
#14517 Ashkan Olyaei Tectus 3
#14517 RICHARD HA Continuum Electro-Optics 3
#14517 Gordon Peng Lam Research 3
#14517 Grace Francisco IBM 3
#14517 Vladimir Rappoport Zoll Circulation 3
#14517 Yining Dong University Of Southern California 3
#14517 Jannat Saxena — 3
#14517 Shyam Satinder Khorana GE 3
#14517 Avinash Shetty Peel Technologies 3
#14517 Bruce Brogden Caliper Life Sciences 3
#14517 Dixie Nguyen Atmel 3
#14517 Charley Chell Ca 3
#14517 Eric J. Day Apple 3
#14517 Jerry Parker Lane Dell Products 3
#14517 Andrew Tollerud IBM 3
#14517 Andrii Zavgorodnii Ivanti 3
#14517 Lam H. Thai Borland International 3
#14517 Jinghua Yao Samsung 3

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