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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 Shandong University, IBM, Ebay. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 15,851–15,900 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#14517 Yinglin Sun Shandong University 3
#14517 Tina L. Masatani IBM 3
#14517 Shikha Khare Ebay 3
#14517 Xinan Luo Asml Netherlands B.V. 3
#14517 Justin Paul Luitjens NVIDIA 3
#14517 Anson Chan Omnivision Technologies 3
#14517 Thrivikrama Taula Ebay 3
#14517 Naveen Dhar Futurewei Technologies 3
#14517 Nayil Kavak Ericsson 3
#14517 Robert Totte Google 3
#14517 Savitha Nanjangud Applied Materials 3
#14517 Miles E. Beaven Enovix 3
#14517 Nathaniel Bush Apple 3
#14517 Brian McGee Intel 3
#14517 Orest Bolohan Google 3
#14517 Jeffery A. Moss Enovix 3
#14517 Harry I. Russell GE 3
#14517 Ricardo Vasquez-Sierra Roku 3
#14517 Simon Kershaw Lsi Logic 3
#14517 Kenneth J. Klask — 3
#14517 Richard J. Russo Meta 3
#14517 Bill Blume ExxonMobil 3
#14517 Manju Ramesh Cisco 3
#14517 Kevin L. Ma Interlake Research 3
#14517 Sandhya C. Turaga IBM 3
#14517 Christian KURTSIEFER Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen 3
#14517 Dinesh Nirmal IBM 3
#14517 Kuoyu Lin Fortemedia 3
#14517 Wayne L. Wright Brush Wellman 3
#14517 Siva Udupa Zscaler 3
#14517 Richard A. Lagueux, Jr. Dell Products 3
#14517 Jenna Yi Apple 3
#14517 Luis H. Morales Alzeta 3
#14517 Sam Vaziri TSMC 3
#14517 Eric McSherry NVIDIA 3
#14517 Albert Gaoiran — 3
#14517 Souradeep Sen PayPal 3
#14517 Sven E. Karlsson Xerox 3
#14517 Ching Yin Derek Pang Google 3
#14517 Daniel F. LaBouve Artisan Components 3
#14517 Leemay Yen Array Networks 3
#14517 Steven M. Mallinson Valence Technology 3
#14517 Shun-Miin (Sam) Wang Syntest Technologies 3
#14517 Mike Kirk — 3
#14517 Hamid Mohammadinia Apple 3
#14517 Jim Reynolds Qwest Communications International 3
#14517 Sumanth R. Kamatala Oracle 3
#14517 Kok Chin Vooi — 3
#14517 Jose Galdos Dfine 3
#14517 Fabrizio Caffarelli Adaptec 3

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