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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 Integrated Memory Logic, Solaria, Apple. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 16,151–16,200 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#14517 Ka Kit Ling Integrated Memory Logic 3
#14517 Manny Castro Solaria 3
#14517 Robin T. Guers Apple 3
#14517 Stuart Robert Pearce — 3
#14517 Jeffrey Wedmore — 3
#14517 Tim Orsley Maxtor 3
#14517 Jeffrey A. Schefske AMD 3
#14517 David W. Tolleson IBM 3
#14517 Timothy Van Le Unknown 3
#14517 Jin S. Choe Zycon 3
#14517 Yiqing Shen Nxp Usa 3
#14517 Christine G. Collins Syntex (U.S.A.) 3
#14517 Jacqueline Sadakian Dade Behring Marburg Gmbh 3
#14517 Brett Bandy Servicenow 3
#14517 Hiep Ngo Oracle 3
#14517 Murali Pallikonda Automation Anywhere 3
#14517 Vu Nguyen Alza 3
#14517 Victor W. Katvala NASA 3
#14517 Yuk Lung Ha Finisar 3
#14517 Cindy Sun Cypress Semiconductor 3
#14517 Nizar S. Kheraj Xerox 3
#14517 Russell E. Anglin — 3
#14517 William D. Gerverdinck Fmc 3
#14517 Kashyap Tavarekere Ananthapadmanabha Brocade Communications Systems 3
#14517 Qinglei Wang Globalfoundries 3
#14517 Shunbo Mou Omnivision Technologies 3
#14517 Chong I Cheang Lensvector 3
#14517 Thomas Rudolf Anzelde IBM 3
#14517 Hsin-Liang Huang IBM 3
#14517 Aruna Aluri Cadence Design Systems 3
#14517 Chung Chuan Liu IBM 3
#14517 Christopher Dinh Integrated Memory Logic 3
#14517 Sam Tyagi — 3
#14517 Marco Eidinger Sap Se 3
#14517 Rick Tellez — 3
#14517 Sebastian J. M. Wicklein Sandisk Technologies 3
#14517 Pedro YEBENES SEGURA Intel 3
#14517 Vladimir Adam Amazon 3
#14517 Jonathan Switkes Google 3
#14517 Joe D. Deardon Crative 3
#14517 Abu K. Eghan AMD 3
#14517 Darrell G. Follett IBM 3
#14517 Pedro Arrechea IBM 3
#14517 Wayne Gu Huang Seagate Technology 3
#14517 Robert Owen Barr IBM 3
#14517 Brian Therault Bloom Energy 3
#14517 Banafsheh Jalali Apple 3
#14517 Glenn L. Ely — 3
#14517 Fariah Hayee Applied Materials 3
#14517 Tom Tang Incyte Pharmaceuticals 3

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