Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Sept 30, 2025

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 Vidiator Enterprises, Hillstone Networks Co., Juniper Networks. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 15,651–15,700 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#14517 Xia Hong Vidiator Enterprises 3
#14517 Linyang Shu Hillstone Networks Co. 3
#14517 Sriram Gopalaratnam Juniper Networks 3
#14517 Geoffrey McCormack Progressive Casualty Insurance 3
#14517 Alexandre Nobrega Duarte Google 3
#14517 Timo Pfahl IBM 3
#14517 David Alexander Crawley 3
#14517 Firat Kart Tibco Software 3
#14517 William James Carter-Giannini Amazon 3
#14517 Raechel Crosby Cisco 3
#14517 Kylie Tuosto Intuit 3
#14517 Seoung Wug Oh Adobe 3
#14517 Ray Killorn Vlsi Technology 3
#14517 Steve Aboagye Applied Materials 3
#14517 Anshul Purohit Nutanix 3
#14517 Pallavi Kalapatapu Cisco 3
#14517 Gregory Kilinski Abbott 3
#14517 Jimmy D. Disel 3
#14517 Allan Baw Spidercloud Wireless 3
#14517 Peter Milov Sequent Software 3
#14517 Huafang Zhou Aessense Technology Hong Kong Limited 3
#14517 Jeff Steven White Ebay 3
#14517 Ritu Parekh Procore Technologies 3
#14517 Jay Merrill Bruce IBM 3
#14517 Douglas McKay Verigy (Singapore) Pte. 3
#14517 ChuanKang Liang Mediatek Singapore Pte. 3
#14517 Pradeep Kashyap Ramaswamy Nutanix 3
#14517 Joseph A. Perlas Western Digital Technologies 3
#14517 Yiwen Ouyang Mgi Holdings Co., Limited 3
#14517 Richard James Stevens Acuson 3
#14517 Ershad Ahmed Dialog Semiconductor (Uk) Limited 3
#14517 Tejas Dattatraya Kulkarni Google 3
#14517 Bill Samaras Intel 3
#14517 Russell Haynes Unknown 3
#14517 Aulena Churhuri Litmus Concepts 3
#14517 Steven A. Marchette Apple 3
#14517 Douglas Arnold Simmons Dh Technologies Development Pte. 3
#14517 Nabin Acharya Rockwell Automation 3
#14517 Varma L. Chanderraju Google 3
#14517 Nandhini Nandiwada Santhanam 3
#14517 Toshi Takayanagi Apple 3
#14517 Chunsung Chiang Globalfoundries 3
#14517 Nick Karmaniolas IBM 3
#14517 Zhaohui Shan Verigy (Singapore) Pte. 3
#14517 Hari Potaraju Barracuda Networks 3
#14517 Dongchul Park Samsung 3
#14517 Sushant U. Chavan Apple 3
#14517 Akhil Krishnan AMD 3
#14517 Debbie Sanders-Millare Advanced Cardiovascular Systems 3
#14517 Lindsay Holt Apple 3

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