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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 North Carolina State University, Apple, Nanogram. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 15,751–15,800 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#14517 Samuel Lee North Carolina State University 3
#14517 George Lin Apple 3
#14517 Gina Elizabeth Pengra-Leung Nanogram 3
#14517 Bharat Chandramouli Cadence Design Systems 3
#14517 Ting-Tung Kuo Advanced Nano Systems 3
#14517 Rita S. Wu IBM 3
#14517 Zhiqing Zhang Qualcomm 3
#14517 Berkan Solmaz Ebay 3
#14517 Shomron Jacob Iterate Studio 3
#14517 Vijay Manikandan Janakiraman Intuit 3
#14517 Dan Simone Bay Networks, Nc. 3
#14517 James D. Gatts — 3
#14517 Eric Dean Tober IBM 3
#14517 Ananda Reddy Vayyala Sambanova Systems 3
#14517 William W. Ip Seeq Technology, Incorporated 3
#14517 Nick Perkins Quantumscape Battery 3
#14517 Corinne Sherman Stewart Ebay 3
#14517 Shang L. Tsuei Apple 3
#14517 Simon E. Saba Photon Ag 3
#14517 Charles Akum Njinda AMD 3
#14517 Anup P. Pandya Amazon 3
#14517 I-Chuin Peter Chan Hyundai Electronics America 3
#14517 Thuc Tran Bui Silicon Storage Technology 3
#14517 Manolo Lumauig Advanced Cardiovascular Systems 3
#14517 Jason A. Kirby Infoblox 3
#14517 Tvrtko Barbaric Nxp B.V. 3
#14517 Shao-Jen Lim Synaptics Incorporated 3
#14517 HaiAu PhanVu Mattson Technology 3
#14517 Armin R. Tietze IBM 3
#14517 Suren Gupta California Micro Devices 3
#14517 Audrey Lin Affymetrix 3
#14517 Zhijie Xiong Qualcomm 3
#14517 Ji Li Stmicroelectronics (Grenoble 2) Sas 3
#14517 Chaekwan Lee Edgeq 3
#14517 William J. Silvkoff Philips 3
#14517 Gefan Zhang Brocade Communications Systems 3
#14517 Nirmal Kumar Baid Visa 3
#14517 Niranjan Gopinathan Jds Uniphase 3
#14517 Daniel Mathias HP 3
#14517 Alexander W. LaRiviere — 3
#14517 Charles Monnett Supportlogic 3
#14517 Kenneth Santiago Advantest Test Solutions 3
#14517 Trevor Chan Cy Vision 3
#14517 Swaran Singh Sethi Kineto Wireless 3
#14517 Irena Balin Amazon 3
#14517 James Teixeira Miasole 3
#14517 Richard O. Shaffner Ilc Technology 3
#14517 Boris Fuksshimov Applied Materials 3
#14517 Thomas Ulrich Swidler Sony 3
#14517 Jake William Zuena Dolby Laboratories Licensing 3

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