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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 Avanex, Xage Security, Servicenow. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 15,501–15,550 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#14517 Khanh T. Ly Avanex 3
#14517 Tu Pham Xage Security 3
#14517 Mohan Konyala Servicenow 3
#14517 Vasile Patrascu IBM 3
#14517 Chia Ching Ling Arris Enterprises 3
#14517 Vaibhav Katkade Amazon 3
#14517 Umar F. Minhas IBM 3
#14517 Thomas Singkiat Liong Mylex 3
#14517 Bharadwaj Subramanian Google 3
#14517 Sonoko Aristud Cree 3
#14517 Raymond J. Hughes Rolm 3
#14517 Albert S. Brown Stion 3
#14517 Narain D. Arora Cadence Design Systems 3
#14517 Katie Lynn Nardi Lam Research 3
#14517 Dingyou Zhang Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited 3
#14517 Vijayshree Singh Ebay 3
#14517 Sai Prashanth Dhanraj Cypress Semiconductor 3
#14517 Prashant Basavaraj Gadagi Broadcom 3
#14517 Ankur Soni Broadcom 3
#14517 Yuechen Wu Apple 3
#14517 Darren K. Hopcroft Cisco 3
#14517 Lori Christine Simcox IBM 3
#14517 Gautam K. Hemani Applied Materials 3
#14517 Farrokh Mottahedin Cisco 3
#14517 Zhi Ning Wang Palo Alto Networks 3
#14517 Joseph Michael Munoz Halliburton Energy Services 3
#14517 Jamee Kim Lee Georgia Tech Research 3
#14517 Karthik Sudhir Apple 3
#14517 Horst G. Mossbrugger IBM 3
#14517 Hector Avila — 3
#14517 Monique McIntosh Applied Materials 3
#14517 Suresh Alla Verily Life Sciences 3
#14517 Eric Hilton Applied Materials 3
#14517 Thomas F. Carlos Moore Epitaxial 3
#14517 Hanlin He Cisco 3
#14517 Aniruddh Shrivastava Natron Energy 3
#14517 Fatjon Gurga Credence Technologies 3
#14517 Benjamin I. Williamson Apple 3
#14517 Sogol Teschler IBM 3
#14517 Reza Shirazi Aghjari — 3
#14517 David Haidong Fu Cisco 3
#14517 Prasanna Kalkura Google 3
#14517 Julie Tran TSMC 3
#14517 Danielle Mauri HGST 3
#14517 Thierry G. Mantopoulos Radius Group 3
#14517 Arun Kumar Akkinapalli Ebay 3
#14517 Kristina Lauraitis Martin Marietta Materials 3
#14517 Cono J. Sammarco Western Digital Technologies 3
#14517 Barbara Stortz Sap Se 3
#14517 Chinmayee Nagaraju Servicenow 3

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