California — Patent Inventors 2002

Top Cities in California 2002

Rank	City	Patents	Inventors
#1	San Jose, CA	4,580	2,494
#2	San Diego, CA	2,724	1,657
#3	Sunnyvale, CA	1,857	1,006
#4	Palo Alto, CA	1,765	925
#5	San Francisco, CA	1,634	900
#6	Fremont, CA	1,402	758
#7	Cupertino, CA	1,265	620
#8	Mountain View, CA	1,165	662
#9	Santa Clara, CA	1,065	592
#10	Los Angeles, CA	894	575
#11	Los Altos, CA	860	415
#12	Irvine, CA	773	463
#13	Saratoga, CA	758	356
#14	Redwood City, CA	697	374
#15	Los Gatos, CA	620	319
#16	Menlo Park, CA	609	320
#17	Carlsbad, CA	475	213
#18	Pleasanton, CA	432	241
#19	Milpitas, CA	410	219
#20	Calabasas, CA	400	264
#21	Village of La Jolla, CA	396	214
#22	Berkeley, CA	354	226
#23	Santa Monica, CA	327	209
#24	Torrance, CA	323	174
#25	Pasadena, CA	320	190

Rank	Inventor	City	Company	Patents
1	Bhanwar Singh	معلمی نژاد	AMD	52
2	Ellen Beasley	Burlingame	Applera	49
3	Bon S. Ong	Torrance	—	48
#4	Ramkumar Subramanian	San Diego	AMD	47
#5	Minh Van Ngo	Fremont	Cypress Semiconductor	46
#6	Robert De'Armond	Temecula	Minka Lighting	41
#6	Bharath Rangarajan	Sunnyvale	AMD	41
#8	Wendy R. Bergman	Gilroy	Yoder Brother	37
#9	Paul R. Besser	Sunnyvale	AMD	34
#9	Sergey Lopatin	معلمی نژاد	AMD	34
#11	Tongbi Jiang	Santa Clara	Micron	33
#11	Richard C. Helmstetter	Carlsbad	Callaway Golf	33
#13	Randhir P. S. Thakur	Fremont	Micron	32
#14	Thomas P. Glenn	Modesto	Amkor Technology	31
#15	Willem P. C. Stemmer	Los Gatos	Codexis	29
#16	David K. Swanson	Campbell	Ep Technologies	28
#16	Qi Xiang	San Jose	AMD	28
#18	Brian A. Horowitz	Lake Forest	American Products, L.L.C.	27
#19	Shmuel Shaffer	Palo Alto	Cisco	26
#20	Jerry Wu	Irvine	Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co.	25
#20	Suny Chung	Anaheim	Wheel Pros	25
#20	Yos Singtoroj	Modjeska	Newfrey	25
#20	Roshantha A. Chandraratna	San Juan Capistrano	AbbVie	25
#24	Matthew S. Buynoski	Palo Alto	AMD	24
#24	William J. Beyda	Cupertino	Siemens Information And Communication Networks	24