California — Patent Inventors 2005

Top Cities in California 2005

Rank	City	Patents	Inventors
#1	San Jose, CA	4,809	2,758
#2	San Diego, CA	2,596	1,672
#3	Sunnyvale, CA	1,798	1,070
#4	Palo Alto, CA	1,763	939
#5	San Francisco, CA	1,646	979
#6	Fremont, CA	1,452	824
#7	Cupertino, CA	1,324	659
#8	Santa Clara, CA	1,219	686
#9	Mountain View, CA	1,154	705
#10	Irvine, CA	844	511
#11	Los Altos, CA	832	419
#12	Los Angeles, CA	817	540
#13	Saratoga, CA	727	352
#14	Los Gatos, CA	644	354
#15	Menlo Park, CA	638	328
#16	Tokyo, CA	616	208
#17	Redwood City, CA	604	387
#18	Calabasas, CA	422	250
#19	Pleasanton, CA	406	239
#20	Milpitas, CA	390	244
#21	Carlsbad, CA	369	228
#22	Oakland, CA	342	228
#23	San Mateo, CA	342	210
#24	Berkeley, CA	333	209
#25	Pasadena, CA	332	213

Rank	Inventor	City	Company	Patents
1	Steven Teig	Menlo Park	Cadence Design Systems	62
2	Jerry Wu	Irvine	Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co.	37
3	Frankie F. Roohparvar	Monte Sereno	Micron	35
#4	Ellen Beasley	Burlingame	Applera	34
#5	Brian M. Burr	Oceanside	Grabb-It	33
#5	Tongbi Jiang	Santa Clara	Micron	33
#5	Carl Wesley Truly	Oceanside	Grabb-It	33
#8	Peter J. Hopper	San Jose	National Semiconductor	32
#8	Audrey Goddard	San Francisco	Genentech	32
#8	William I. Wood	Cupertino	Genentech	32
#11	Christophe J. Chevallier	Palo Alto	Micron	31
#11	Frederick Perner	Lompoc	HP	31
#11	Austin Gurney	San Francisco	Genentech	31
#14	Cem Basceri	Livermore	Micron	28
#15	Mitchell E. Hanes	Gilroy	Goldsmith Seeds	27
#16	Andrew Caldwell	Santa Clara	Cadence Design Systems	26
#16	Paul Godowski	Pacifica	Genentech	26
#18	Qi Xiang	San Jose	AMD	25
#18	Vladislav Vashchenko	Palo Alto	National Semiconductor	25
#20	Stanfield Young	Cypress	Minka Lighting	24
#20	Raffi Codilian	San Dimas	Western Digital Technologies	24
#20	Margaret Weiser	Calabasas	Exhart Environmental Systems	24
#23	Andrew Huibers	Cupertino	Reflectivity	23
#23	Haihong Wang	Fremont	AMD	23
#25	Homayoun Talieh	San Jose	Nutool	22