Top Cities in California 2017

Rank City Patents Inventors
#1 San Jose, CA 14,180 5,952
#2 San Francisco, CA 13,168 5,107
#3 San Diego, CA 11,729 4,582
#4 Sunnyvale, CA 5,811 2,660
#5 Mountain View, CA 4,843 2,209
#6 Palo Alto, CA 4,672 2,029
#7 Fremont, CA 3,894 1,740
#8 Santa Clara, CA 3,748 1,709
#9 Cupertino, CA 3,637 1,468
#10 Los Angeles, CA 2,598 1,427
#11 Beijing, CA 2,242 582
#12 Los Altos, CA 2,230 841
#13 Irvine, CA 2,163 1,054
#14 Saratoga, CA 1,961 665
#15 Redwood City, CA 1,923 957
#16 Los Gatos, CA 1,771 660
#17 Menlo Park, CA 1,597 740
#18 Seoul, CA 1,502 298
#19 Carlsbad, CA 1,435 558
#20 Pleasanton, CA 1,373 613
#21 Oakland, CA 1,349 692
#22 San Mateo, CA 1,310 668
#23 Campbell, CA 1,251 457
#24 Shanghai, CA 1,132 362
#25 San Ramon, CA 1,131 465

Top Inventors in California 2017

Rank Inventor City Company Patents
1 Jonathan P. Ive San Francisco Apple 206
2 Clarence T. Tegreene San Francisco Elwha 161
3 Jordin T. Kare San Jose Elwha 154
#4 Duncan Robert Kerr San Francisco Apple 145
#5 Peter Gaal San Diego Qualcomm 141
#6 Matthew Dean Rohrbach San Francisco Apple 131
#7 Christopher J. Stringer Woodside Apple 129
#7 Bartley K. Andre Los Gatos Apple 129
#9 Rico Zörkendörfer San Francisco Apple 123
#9 Jody Akana Los Altos Hills Apple 123
#11 Daniele De Iuliis San Francisco Apple 122
#11 Eugene Antony Whang San Francisco Apple 122
#11 Daniel J. Coster San Francisco Apple 122
#14 Wanshi Chen San Diego Qualcomm 117
#14 M. Evans Hankey San Francisco Apple 117
#16 Julian Hoenig San Francisco Apple 116
#17 Peter Russell-Clarke San Francisco Apple 115
#17 Jeremy Bataillou San Francisco Apple 115
#19 Robert W. Lord San Francisco The Invention Science Fund I 114
#20 Mikael Silvanto San Francisco Apple 113
#21 Nathan P. Myhrvold San Francisco The Invention Science Fund I 111
#22 Marta Karczewicz San Diego Qualcomm 104
#23 Imran Chaudhri San Francisco Apple 103
#24 Shota Aoyagi San Francisco Apple 96
#25 Muriel Y. Ishikawa Livermore The Invention Science Fund I 94

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