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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 Apple, Disney, Synaptics Incorporated. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 16,001–16,050 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#14517 Ian T. Clark Apple 3
#14517 Xiaotao Xu Disney 3
#14517 James Dunphy Synaptics Incorporated 3
#14517 Dan Burrows Overland Storage 3
#14517 Rsong-Hsiang Shiao Ess Tech 3
#14517 Monis Rahman Intel 3
#14517 Kiran K. Rachuri Samsung 3
#14517 Goetz Leonhardt Oracle 3
#14517 Jeffrey L. Wang Sae Magnetics (H.K.) 3
#14517 Sahadevan Harikrishnan Cisco 3
#14517 Chia-Chun Huang Intersil Americas 3
#14517 Xuexin Liu Synaptics Incorporated 3
#14517 Ka Leung Ling Micron 3
#14517 Amy H. Yin Amcell 3
#14517 Erik Bergman Amazon 3
#14517 Laurent Domenech Tibco Software 3
#14517 Alpa Shah Aeris Communications 3
#14517 Ryan Lee Hammond Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3
#14517 Ryan M. McCall Knowles Electronics 3
#14517 Olga M. Stanescu Thoratec 3
#14517 Harsh Vardhan Vashistha Cisco 3
#14517 Sankara Narayana Hemanth Meenakshisundaram Amazon 3
#14517 Hungchi Chen Disney 3
#14517 Toshiyuki Hisamura AMD 3
#14517 Jean-Marc Laurent Electricite De France - Service National 3
#14517 Keith Swenson Fujitsu Limited 3
#14517 Venkat Mavram Ebay 3
#14517 Srividya S. Vemulakonda Cisco 3
#14517 Van Van Nguyen Cisco 3
#14517 Guy Gecht Electronics For Imaging 3
#14517 Mike Morse Intel 3
#14517 John S. Elward AMD 3
#14517 Noel John Ronsvalle R2 Technologies 3
#14517 Kaili An PayPal 3
#14517 Alexander Almela Conklin Rain Neuromorphics 3
#14517 Andrew Hadd Asuragen 3
#14517 Elbert L. Turner Lockheed Martin 3
#14517 Srividya Latha Gogulapati Rivian Ip Holdings 3
#14517 Ildefonso Miguel Polo Veex 3
#14517 Raj Kumar Singh Parihar — 3
#14517 John MESSINA Optinose 3
#14517 Anthony P. Coniglio AMD 3
#14517 Balamurugan Ramaraj Juniper Networks 3
#14517 Mark Clark Siemens Communications 3
#14517 Leslie E. Leland Microsoft 3
#14517 Rene Chavez Juniper Networks 3
#14517 Brad Griswold Kulicke And Soffa Industries 3
#14517 Charlie Chandra Acclarent 3
#14517 Hieu Charlie Nguyen — 3
#14517 Shaw-Yi Chaw Accenture Global Services Limited 3

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