California 2011

81,175 patents  ·  41,698 inventors  ·  705 cities  ·  2.2/1k pop.

Ranked #1 of 53 US states Top 2%

Top Cities in California 2011

Rank City Patents Inventors
#1 San Jose, CA 8,464 4,297
#2 San Diego, CA 5,666 2,883
#3 San Francisco, CA 4,940 2,197
#4 Sunnyvale, CA 3,514 1,815
#5 Palo Alto, CA 3,300 1,511
#6 Fremont, CA 2,504 1,263
#7 Mountain View, CA 2,366 1,245
#8 Cupertino, CA 2,209 1,069
#9 Santa Clara, CA 2,086 1,093
#10 Los Altos, CA 1,593 660
#11 Los Angeles, CA 1,548 844
#12 Irvine, CA 1,445 707
#13 Saratoga, CA 1,318 561
#14 Redwood City, CA 1,267 647
#15 Los Gatos, CA 1,200 495
#16 Menlo Park, CA 1,169 546
#17 Pleasanton, CA 862 453
#18 San Mateo, CA 843 411
#19 Oakland, CA 757 401
#20 Carlsbad, CA 753 354
#21 Berkeley, CA 628 359
#22 Campbell, CA 614 304
#23 Foster City, CA 605 313
#24 Santa Monica, CA 578 301
#25 Village of La Jolla, CA 567 297

Top Inventors in California 2011

Rank Inventor City Company Patents
1 Ahmadreza (Reza) Rofougaran Newport Beach Broadcom 141
2 Bartley K. Andre Los Gatos Apple 89
3 Duncan Robert Kerr San Francisco Apple 88
#4 Matthew Dean Rohrbach San Francisco Apple 86
#5 Jonathan P. Ive San Francisco Apple 84
#6 Christopher J. Stringer Woodside Apple 83
#6 Daniel J. Coster San Francisco Apple 83
#8 Daniele De Iuliis San Francisco Apple 82
#8 Rico Zörkendörfer San Francisco Apple 82
#10 Eugene Antony Whang San Francisco Apple 81
#11 Jeyhan Karaoguz Irvine Broadcom 69
#12 Peter Russell-Clarke San Francisco Apple 66
#13 Robert W. Lord San Francisco The Invention Science Fund I 63
#14 Clarence T. Tegreene San Francisco Elwha 60
#15 Nathan P. Myhrvold San Francisco The Invention Science Fund I 53
#16 Pantas Sutardja Los Gatos Disney 52
#16 Evans Hankey San Francisco Apple 52
#18 Muriel Y. Ishikawa Livermore The Invention Science Fund I 50
#19 Ken Y. Hsu San Francisco Spartek Medical 47
#20 James F. Zucherman San Francisco Spartek Medical 46
#21 Douglas B. Satzger Menlo Park Apple 45
#21 Stephen J. Brown Woodside Health Hero Network 45
#23 Maryam Rofougaran Rancho Palos Verdes Broadcom 43
#24 Frankie F. Roohparvar Monte Sereno Micron 42
#24 Henry A. Klyce Piedmont Spartek Medical 42

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