Top Cities in California 2019

Rank City Patents Inventors
#1 San Jose, CA 16,308 6,652
#2 San Francisco, CA 15,664 6,446
#3 San Diego, CA 13,199 4,733
#4 Sunnyvale, CA 6,821 3,108
#5 Mountain View, CA 5,938 2,719
#6 Palo Alto, CA 5,329 2,240
#7 Santa Clara, CA 4,471 2,019
#8 Fremont, CA 4,365 1,894
#9 Cupertino, CA 3,988 1,624
#10 Beijing, CA 3,005 670
#11 Los Angeles, CA 3,004 1,641
#12 Irvine, CA 2,459 1,181
#13 Los Altos, CA 2,321 907
#14 Redwood City, CA 2,250 1,104
#15 Saratoga, CA 2,173 728
#16 Menlo Park, CA 1,901 882
#17 Los Gatos, CA 1,864 683
#18 San Mateo, CA 1,677 829
#19 Pleasanton, CA 1,661 704
#20 Oakland, CA 1,610 804
#21 Shanghai, CA 1,580 430
#22 Seoul, CA 1,571 309
#23 Carlsbad, CA 1,519 576
#24 Berkeley, CA 1,331 684
#25 San Ramon, CA 1,291 558

Top Inventors in California 2019

Rank Inventor City Company Patents
1 Wanshi Chen San Diego Qualcomm 223
2 Peter Gaal San Diego Qualcomm 222
3 Tao Luo San Diego Qualcomm 218
#4 Jonathan P. Ive San Francisco Apple 179
#5 Duncan Robert Kerr San Francisco Apple 132
#6 Tingfang Ji San Diego Qualcomm 130
#7 Bartley K. Andre Los Gatos Apple 126
#8 Rico Zörkendörfer San Francisco Apple 117
#8 Daniele De Iuliis San Francisco Apple 117
#8 Christopher J. Stringer Woodside Apple 117
#11 Eugene Antony Whang San Francisco Apple 115
#12 M. Evans Hankey San Francisco Apple 114
#13 Jody Akana Los Altos Hills Apple 113
#14 Peter Russell-Clarke San Francisco Apple 112
#15 Jeremy Bataillou San Francisco Apple 109
#16 Hongyuan Zhang Fremont Disney 108
#17 Julian Hoenig San Francisco Apple 106
#18 Marta Karczewicz San Diego Qualcomm 105
#19 Mikael Silvanto San Francisco Apple 103
#20 Imran Chaudhri San Francisco Apple 96
#21 Abhishek R. Appu Park Village Intel 91
#22 Shota Aoyagi San Francisco Apple 90
#22 Jordin T. Kare San Jose Elwha 90
#24 Matthew Dean Rohrbach San Francisco Apple 89
#25 Daniel J. Coster San Francisco Apple 87

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