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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 Yahoo Assets, Fuji Photo Optical Co., Roblox. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 15,951–16,000 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#14517 Mahendrasinh Ramsinh Jadav Yahoo Assets 3
#14517 Janos L. Hunyady Fuji Photo Optical Co. 3
#14517 Sejal Chauhan Roblox 3
#14517 Julie Wan-Chi Cheng Yahoo Holdings 3
#14517 Jay William Warfield IBM 3
#14517 Ching-Hwa Kiang University of California 3
#14517 Suresh Basavarajappa Cisco 3
#14517 Fang Shen Silicon Magic 3
#14517 Kenneth N. Pearlman Taliq 3
#14517 Marina Galata Microsoft 3
#14517 Thomas N. Kennedy IBM 3
#14517 Soumen Sarkar Wal-Mart Stores 3
#14517 Richard E. Krebs IBM 3
#14517 Jenny Zhang Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 3
#14517 Hong Dong Tan Aclara Biosciences 3
#14517 Jocelyn Tan Santa Clara University 3
#14517 Xiaolian Zhang Alpha And Omega Semiconductor 3
#14517 Soumyadeep Choudhury — 3
#14517 Shashank R. Tadisina Brocade Communications Systems 3
#14517 Anthony Lee Larson Apple 3
#14517 Gopal Hegde Intel 3
#14517 Sri Ram Kishore Vemulpali — 3
#14517 Robert A. Glicksman Philips Electronics North America 3
#14517 Patricia A. Wilson GE 3
#14517 Xuebing Chen Analog Devices 3
#14517 Gary Grossi Broadcom 3
#14517 Ratish Madhavan Nair Ebay 3
#14517 Ming Wong Oracle 3
#14517 Kazuo Tori — 3
#14517 Joon Hee Won — 3
#14517 Archana Yarlagadda Cypress Semiconductor 3
#14517 Christopher Che Oracle 3
#14517 Jing AI Juniper Networks 3
#14517 Hi-Shi Chiang Nektar Therapeutics 3
#14517 Michael Justin Balderas Memorex 3
#14517 Justin M. Spelbrink Here Global B.V. 3
#14517 Zonghui SU Applied Materials 3
#14517 Jeffrey Burstein Broadcom 3
#14517 Zavier Alexander Neurosky 3
#14517 Mitchell M. Hamamoto California Micro Devices 3
#14517 Jin Xu Adobe 3
#14517 Saleem Qadir PayPal 3
#14517 Gary Zandstra Mcafee 3
#14517 Michele Morara Battelle Memorial Institute 3
#14517 Jian Zhou Pixelworks 3
#14517 SungJin Han Integrated Silicon Solution, (Cayman) 3
#14517 Ric Howard NVIDIA 3
#14517 Woong Jae Lee Applied Materials 3
#14517 Xi Xiong Conviva 3
#14517 Chris Ciborowski Blue Coat Systems 3

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