Top Cities in California 2016

Rank City Patents Inventors
#1 San Jose, CA 13,841 5,790
#2 San Francisco, CA 12,858 4,702
#3 San Diego, CA 11,375 4,446
#4 Sunnyvale, CA 5,733 2,581
#5 Palo Alto, CA 4,764 2,001
#6 Mountain View, CA 4,621 2,129
#7 Fremont, CA 3,817 1,686
#8 Cupertino, CA 3,741 1,508
#9 Santa Clara, CA 3,684 1,581
#10 Los Angeles, CA 2,195 1,225
#11 Los Altos, CA 2,194 864
#12 Irvine, CA 2,161 1,024
#13 Saratoga, CA 1,955 660
#14 Beijing, CA 1,916 534
#15 Los Gatos, CA 1,845 658
#16 Redwood City, CA 1,798 882
#17 Menlo Park, CA 1,705 770
#18 Seoul, CA 1,356 280
#19 Pleasanton, CA 1,345 602
#20 San Mateo, CA 1,254 614
#21 Oakland, CA 1,194 610
#22 Carlsbad, CA 1,143 504
#23 Campbell, CA 1,101 423
#24 San Ramon, CA 1,090 475
#25 Tokyo, CA 1,051 282

Top Inventors in California 2016

Rank Inventor City Company Patents
1 Jonathan P. Ive San Francisco Apple 269
2 Duncan Robert Kerr San Francisco Apple 203
3 Bartley K. Andre Los Gatos Apple 196
#4 Matthew Dean Rohrbach San Francisco Apple 195
#5 Christopher J. Stringer Woodside Apple 191
#6 Daniele De Iuliis San Francisco Apple 188
#7 Daniel J. Coster San Francisco Apple 187
#7 Eugene Antony Whang San Francisco Apple 187
#9 Rico Zörkendörfer San Francisco Apple 185
#9 Jody Akana Los Altos Hills Apple 185
#11 M. Evans Hankey San Francisco Apple 181
#12 Peter Russell-Clarke San Francisco Apple 178
#13 Jeremy Bataillou San Francisco Apple 175
#14 Julian Hoenig San Francisco Apple 169
#15 Mikael Silvanto San Francisco Apple 150
#16 Jordin T. Kare San Jose Elwha 135
#17 Clarence T. Tegreene San Francisco Elwha 132
#18 Shota Aoyagi San Francisco Apple 131
#19 Marta Karczewicz San Diego Qualcomm 121
#20 Imran Chaudhri San Francisco Apple 118
#21 Benjamin Andrew Shaffer San Jose Apple 108
#22 Anthony Michael Ashcroft San Francisco Apple 105
#23 Peter Gaal San Diego Qualcomm 100
#24 Seunghee Han San Jose LG 97
#25 Wanshi Chen San Diego Qualcomm 96

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