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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 Nortron, Neuropace, Intel. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 15,901–15,950 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#14517 Donald R. Sherman Nortron 3
#14517 Greg Sandoval Neuropace 3
#14517 Yap Peng Hooi — 3
#14517 Sathish K. Kuttan Intel 3
#14517 Daniel Catalan Comet Technologies Usa 3
#14517 Gary Pizl IBM 3
#14517 Freeman Murray Oracle 3
#14517 Tin Vo Forster Energy 3
#14517 Arthur K. Arnold Nortron 3
#14517 Timothy P. Haines Intuitive Surgical 3
#14517 Eldar Khaliullin D2S 3
#14517 Jebby Foo Heng Kiat — 3
#14517 Rafael Skodlar — 3
#14517 Alexander H. C. Chang — 3
#14517 Damian Kaleta Apple 3
#14517 Rahul Raghavendra Huilgol Amazon 3
#14517 Yufeng Luo Cadence Design Systems 3
#14517 Alex Krizhevsky Google 3
#14517 Ping Ding Huawei 3
#14517 Chun Wai Joseph Tong Seagate Technology 3
#14517 L Samuel A Kassatly — 3
#14517 Warren A. Christopherson IBM 3
#14517 Gangotree Chakma Micron 3
#14517 Anton Talalayev Apple 3
#14517 Lian Jian Disney 3
#14517 Pavan Kumar Venkata Satish Bharathapudi Juniper Networks 3
#14517 Darryl L. Hyde — 3
#14517 Edmar Camargo Berex 3
#14517 Robert R. Fish IBM 3
#14517 Gavin Zawalski Cadence Design Systems 3
#14517 Gregory Lee Renda Network Computing Devices 3
#14517 Skyler Selvin Hrl Laboratories 3
#14517 Xiang Fan Fortinet 3
#14517 Richard Ciari National Semiconductor 3
#14517 Raza Ali Malik Ebay 3
#14517 Siqiong You Mentor Graphics 3
#14517 Dat Truong Immersion 3
#14517 Duyen Riggs Broadcom 3
#14517 Gurminder Sunner Directv 3
#14517 Pankaj Dubey Mastercard 3
#14517 Edward D. Meczko Trimble Navigation Limited 3
#14517 James Delli Santi — 3
#14517 Colin G. MCKINSTRY Apple 3
#14517 Arvind Sugumar PayPal 3
#14517 Prashant Chandrakant Saundade Walmart Apollo 3
#14517 James Nicholas Davey Juniper Networks 3
#14517 Kenneth Rowberry Proteus Digital Health 3
#14517 Nikon Banouvong AMD 3
#14517 Dana Truong Affymetrix 3
#14517 Samer L. Theodossy Cisco 3

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