Top Cities in California 2018

Rank City Patents Inventors
#1 San Jose, CA 14,037 5,991
#2 San Francisco, CA 13,015 5,438
#3 San Diego, CA 10,945 4,341
#4 Sunnyvale, CA 5,444 2,644
#5 Mountain View, CA 4,817 2,331
#6 Palo Alto, CA 4,445 1,983
#7 Fremont, CA 3,646 1,677
#8 Santa Clara, CA 3,533 1,667
#9 Cupertino, CA 3,436 1,457
#10 Los Angeles, CA 2,468 1,396
#11 Beijing, CA 2,373 631
#12 Los Altos, CA 2,039 817
#13 Irvine, CA 1,969 1,040
#14 Redwood City, CA 1,937 991
#15 Saratoga, CA 1,919 666
#16 Los Gatos, CA 1,707 626
#17 Menlo Park, CA 1,651 789
#18 Seoul, CA 1,444 290
#19 Oakland, CA 1,399 714
#20 San Mateo, CA 1,364 707
#21 Carlsbad, CA 1,361 575
#22 Pleasanton, CA 1,349 626
#23 Shanghai, CA 1,182 377
#24 San Ramon, CA 1,176 481
#25 Campbell, CA 1,118 435

Top Inventors in California 2018

Rank Inventor City Company Patents
1 Jonathan P. Ive San Francisco Apple 184
2 Duncan Robert Kerr San Francisco Apple 138
3 Wanshi Chen San Diego Qualcomm 136
#4 Christopher J. Stringer Woodside Apple 135
#4 Peter Gaal San Diego Qualcomm 135
#6 Bartley K. Andre Los Gatos Apple 132
#7 Rico Zörkendörfer San Francisco Apple 129
#8 Daniele De Iuliis San Francisco Apple 126
#9 Eugene Antony Whang San Francisco Apple 123
#10 M. Evans Hankey San Francisco Apple 119
#11 Peter Russell-Clarke San Francisco Apple 116
#11 Jeremy Bataillou San Francisco Apple 116
#13 Jody Akana Los Altos Hills Apple 115
#14 Tao Luo San Diego Qualcomm 114
#15 Julian Hoenig San Francisco Apple 113
#16 Jordin T. Kare San Jose Elwha 110
#17 Daniel J. Coster San Francisco Apple 108
#18 Matthew Dean Rohrbach San Francisco Apple 107
#19 Michael A. Leabman San Ramon Energous 103
#20 Mikael Silvanto San Francisco Apple 102
#21 Shota Aoyagi San Francisco Apple 95
#22 Hongyuan Zhang Fremont Disney 93
#23 Imran Chaudhri San Francisco Apple 92
#24 Clarence T. Tegreene San Francisco Elwha 85
#25 Benjamin Andrew Shaffer San Jose Apple 83

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