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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 Oath, Headway Technologies, Specialized Bicycle Components. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 15,701–15,750 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#14517 Cem Akkaya Oath 3
#14517 Gene Sandler Headway Technologies 3
#14517 William Te-Chung Chan Specialized Bicycle Components 3
#14517 John R. Rossum, Jr. 3Com 3
#14517 Alexis Asseman IBM 3
#14517 Anant Sakharkar Agjunction 3
#14517 Salil Vijaykumar Pradhan HP 3
#14517 Ya{hacek over (g)}iz Onat Yazir Ericsson 3
#14517 Yen Lai Apple 3
#14517 Osama Khalil Shanaa Mediatek Singapore Pte. 3
#14517 Peter David Copeland Ebay 3
#14517 Musiri Shrivathsan Telenav 3
#14517 Joseph W. Berteloot — 3
#14517 Sateesh Bajikar US Dept of Energy 3
#14517 Gyanesh Pandey PayPal 3
#14517 Dwayne Swoboda NVIDIA 3
#14517 Michael L. Hodgson Adobe 3
#14517 Pratik DESAI Broadcom 3
#14517 Kaijun Zhang Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co. 3
#14517 Hieu Ho — 3
#14517 Anil Lakshmi Narasimha Telikepalli AMD 3
#14517 Alex Nhu Broadcom 3
#14517 Srinivasa Maddipati Citrix Systems 3
#14517 Udayakumar Shanumgam Alcatel 3
#14517 Robert Zajdel Orcon 3
#14517 Lea Ann McNabb Trimble Navigation Limited 3
#14517 Leslie E. Thompson IBM 3
#14517 Sandeep Mehrotra Synopsys 3
#14517 Yesser H. Alnajjar — 3
#14517 Todd C. Tatum Cisco 3
#14517 Vineet Bhan Cisco 3
#14517 Kalyan Kankipati Intel 3
#14517 Muhammad Anzar Afaq Ebay 3
#14517 Donald J. Haney Cotton Machinery 3
#14517 Francisco Jose Kattan Unwired Planet 3
#14517 Tony M. Ton Bell Sports 3
#14517 Chris Lee Zap Surgical Systems 3
#14517 John Hoving Adaptec 3
#14517 Blerim Cici Apple 3
#14517 Paulo Silveira da Motta Innovative Micro Technology 3
#14517 Aleksandr Kirov Logitech Europe S.A. 3
#14517 Harry Raymond Soza Norand 3
#14517 James A. Queen Apple 3
#14517 Caitlin M. MCLAIN Apple 3
#14517 Edson Lopes Stryker 3
#14517 Dileep Panjwani Blue Planet Technologies 3
#14517 Phillip L. Ball Ventritex 3
#14517 Kavitha Pasikanti Nutanix 3
#14517 Bruce W. Webbon NASA 3
#14517 Andu Alem Tefera Seagate Technologies 3

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