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Sunnyvale, CA All Time

118,568 patents  ·  14,302 inventors  ·  761.0/1k pop.

Ranked #36 of 111,555 cities Top 1%

Sunnyvale, CA ranks #36 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 118,568 patents from 14,302 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Sunnyvale, CA include Cisco, Google, Intuit. That works out to 761.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 13,951–14,000 of 14,302 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#10174 Lenin Babu Dontuboyina Cisco 1
#10174 Swaminathan Mahadevan Google 1
#10174 Avni Savant Intuit 1
#10174 Qifeng Shen Hitachi 1
#10174 Craig Foulds — 1
#10174 Adeesh Fulay Oracle 1
#10174 Shung-neng Lee Verily Life Sciences 1
#10174 Jonathan Rolls — 1
#10174 Yen Hai Thi Tieu Avantec Vascular 1
#10174 Anne L. Sanditen Apple 1
#10174 Sowmya Naidu Vundamati Broadcom 1
#10174 Youssef Billawal Oath 1
#10174 Nathaniel Calvin Emc Ip Holding Company 1
#10174 Khuan Tan Sap Se 1
#10174 Xingxing Gu Google 1
#10174 Shikha Somani Globalfoundries 1
#10174 Jalajadevi Ganapathy Cisco 1
#10174 Jose Alex Rivas Google 1
#10174 Satish Keshava Kadaba Oracle 1
#10174 Sylvia Xiuhui Li NVIDIA 1
#10174 David Knick Applied Materials 1
#10174 Tanmay Sunit Inamdar Ampere Computing 1
#10174 Sneha Datla Oath 1
#10174 Srihari Murali Microsoft 1
#10174 Sharvanath Pathak Rubrik 1
#10174 Daniel I. Omachi Apple 1
#10174 Sam Burriesci HP 1
#10174 Teodor Zanetti — 1
#10174 Jae Young Huh Apple 1
#10174 Ankur Avlani Hitachi Vantara 1
#10174 Vijay Krishnam Ganesan Jda Software Group 1
#10174 Douglas Wesley Rauenzahn HP 1
#10174 Yachi Lee X Development 1
#10174 Gwendoln Watanabe Hotspur Technologies 1
#10174 Jennifer Colegrove Silicon Bandwidth, Inc., 1
#10174 Zebulon Elias Wheeler Blue River Technology 1
#10174 Kushal Gurunath Sukthankar Microsoft 1
#10174 Jiazhuo Wang University Of Notre Dame 1
#10174 Donna Lynn Marcelino Abbyy Production 1
#10174 Monica Jain Entit Software 1
#10174 Rick Swift Oracle 1
#10174 Manikandan Kaliyaperumal Equinix 1
#10174 Dan Elarde Venafi 1
#10174 Greger Gustafsson Ericsson 1
#10174 Heather Megan Weir Oracle 1
#10174 Zhenhuan Zhou Meta 1
#10174 Jiun-Tlng Lee Headway Technologies 1
#10174 Ted Andrew Watson Ruckus Wireless 1
#10174 Ebrahim Adedifard Micron 1
#10174 Shilpi Nayak Akamai Technologies 1

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