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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 Fetch Robotics, Apple, HGST. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 15,601–15,650 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#14517 Andrew Zeller Fetch Robotics 3
#14517 Keith McGreggor Apple 3
#14517 Unal Murat Guruz HGST 3
#14517 Joseph R. Pierret Elantec 3
#14517 Prem Pinto Tesla 3
#14517 Ethan Hoewisch Aeris Communications 3
#14517 George Wu Velobind 3
#14517 Harbinder Sikka NVIDIA 3
#14517 Ken Wallace Bookham Technology, Plc 3
#14517 Jimmy Ming Chiang Zoox 3
#14517 Carlos Martin Terminel Iberri Google 3
#14517 Sukhbir Singh Dulay HGST 3
#14517 VaraPrasad Arikatla Qualcomm 3
#14517 Carmen Heger Ebay 3
#14517 Shunlin Liang Microsoft 3
#14517 Michael Maffeo Ebay 3
#14517 Sasa Hasan Ebay 3
#14517 Zhongqiang Wang Broadlogic Network Technologies 3
#14517 Hiral Patel Diamanti 3
#14517 Steven Skeoch Netgear 3
#14517 Swati Kumari — 3
#14517 Chad O. Simpson Apple 3
#14517 Matthew W. Rooke IBM 3
#14517 Alyson Weidmann Caltech 3
#14517 Wen Fang Nanjing University 3
#14517 Oscar Eugene Moran — 3
#14517 Roger Charles Mistely Oracle 3
#14517 Sy Vu Wd Media 3
#14517 Miroslav Gelo Applied Materials 3
#14517 Danielle Loi Applied Materials 3
#14517 David Warrick Jasco Products Company 3
#14517 Jorge Albericio Samsung 3
#14517 Simon Lee Syntex (U.S.A.) 3
#14517 Sandor Fejes Geometrix 3
#14517 Givargis Avareh Danialy Logicvision 3
#14517 Alan Reilly Fry Positive Light 3
#14517 Thiruvilvama Lai V. Raman IBM 3
#14517 Henry Perez L-3 Communications 3
#14517 Thomas L. Blackburn Godigital Networks 3
#14517 Akshay SHETTY Amazon 3
#14517 Sudheer Kumar Vavilapalli Netapp 3
#14517 Miles L. Peterson Seagate Technology 3
#14517 Sean P. Woyciehowsky Juniper Networks 3
#14517 Amod Vilas JALTADE Nutanix 3
#14517 Yongyan Cao Tula Etechnology 3
#14517 Jhy-ping Shaw Oak Technology 3
#14517 Venkatakrishnan S. Sundaranatha Apple 3
#14517 Omar Amin Zoom Communications 3
#14517 Edward J. Cortez Asyst Technologies L.L.C. 3
#14517 Michael Saso Abbott 3

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