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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 IBM, Brixham Solutions, Apple. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 16,101–16,150 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#14517 Jenny Yukkoo Nishimura IBM 3
#14517 David Bumstead Brixham Solutions 3
#14517 Aniwat Arromratana Apple 3
#14517 David McCutcheon Microsoft 3
#14517 Surya Murali AT&T 3
#14517 D. Scott Romkee Ventritex 3
#14517 John Newman Sony 3
#14517 Daniel Stephen Malashock Teijin Pharma Limited 3
#14517 David Robson Fetch Robotics 3
#14517 Haoying Xu Palo Alto Networks 3
#14517 Anand K. Antur Ukiah Software 3
#14517 Mark Wood-Patrick Pasternak Solutions 3
#14517 D. Erich Weerth Friedman Research 3
#14517 Jeffrey Goldberg AMD 3
#14517 Jiangming Xu Via Technologies 3
#14517 Hu-Kong Lai Acc Microelectronics 3
#14517 Susie H. Bui Apple 3
#14517 Matthew Miao Google 3
#14517 Safaa S. Hasan Juniper Networks 3
#14517 Sunil Kanekal Broadcom 3
#14517 Elijah Dumas — 3
#14517 Amir Frenkel Amazon 3
#14517 Michael A. Cecere — 3
#14517 Robert B. Beyers IBM 3
#14517 Hung Q. Nguyen Tabula 3
#14517 Donald Allan Weil IBM 3
#14517 Huynh Tu Dang Western Digital Technologies 3
#14517 Ahmet Alpdemir — 3
#14517 Changsheng Ying Anchor Semiconductor 3
#14517 Mark Dorighi — 3
#14517 Bor-Jeng Chen NVIDIA 3
#14517 Frank P. Tadman — 3
#14517 Kow Chuong Chuan — 3
#14517 James Goetz AT&T 3
#14517 Austin S. Tavares AMD 3
#14517 Lawrence Hakchu Lee Agilent Technologies 3
#14517 Boshi Huang Kla 3
#14517 Sowmya Chandran Ciena 3
#14517 Adolf Van Der Heide Mcube 3
#14517 Dante Aubert IBM 3
#14517 Roman Gusarov Theai 3
#14517 Li-Pen Wang Nptest 3
#14517 Angelito Foz Gonzaga Ge-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas 3
#14517 Venkat Abilash Reddy Nerallapally NVIDIA 3
#14517 Geoffrey A. Riegel IBM 3
#14517 Robert G. Stebbins AMD 3
#14517 Lopamudra Sengupta Rovi Guides 3
#14517 Tanbir HASAN Asml Netherlands B.V. 3
#14517 Geoffrey Daniel Young Nio Usa 3
#14517 Shei-Kung Shi IBM 3

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