Top Cities in California 2020

Rank City Patents Inventors
#1 San Jose, CA 16,876 6,906
#2 San Francisco, CA 16,384 6,857
#3 San Diego, CA 13,652 4,672
#4 Sunnyvale, CA 7,036 3,155
#5 Mountain View, CA 5,869 2,745
#6 Palo Alto, CA 5,227 2,277
#7 Santa Clara, CA 4,886 2,109
#8 Fremont, CA 4,520 1,978
#9 Cupertino, CA 4,038 1,575
#10 Beijing, CA 3,552 715
#11 Los Angeles, CA 3,383 1,794
#12 Redwood City, CA 2,473 1,166
#13 Irvine, CA 2,323 1,116
#14 Saratoga, CA 2,167 693
#15 Los Altos, CA 2,129 848
#16 Menlo Park, CA 1,966 873
#17 Los Gatos, CA 1,829 663
#18 San Mateo, CA 1,750 875
#19 Pleasanton, CA 1,704 689
#20 Oakland, CA 1,701 860
#21 Shanghai, CA 1,626 441
#22 Seoul, CA 1,524 307
#23 Berkeley, CA 1,475 731
#24 Lo Wu, CA 1,399 303
#25 Campbell, CA 1,360 522

Top Inventors in California 2020

Rank Inventor City Company Patents
1 Tao Luo San Diego Qualcomm 275
2 Wanshi Chen San Diego Qualcomm 264
3 Peter Gaal San Diego Qualcomm 257
#4 Jonathan P. Ive San Francisco Apple 164
#5 Jing Sun San Diego Qualcomm 154
#6 Tingfang Ji San Diego Qualcomm 125
#7 Duncan Robert Kerr San Francisco Apple 124
#8 Shan Liu San Jose Tencent America 116
#9 Rico Zörkendörfer San Francisco Apple 111
#9 Bartley K. Andre Los Gatos Apple 111
#11 Xiaoxia Zhang San Diego Qualcomm 110
#12 Jody Akana Los Altos Hills Apple 109
#13 Eugene Antony Whang San Francisco Apple 105
#14 Tamer Kadous San Diego Xcom Labs 104
#15 Julian Hoenig San Francisco Apple 102
#15 Peter Russell-Clarke San Francisco Apple 102
#17 Jeremy Bataillou San Francisco Apple 100
#17 Mikael Silvanto San Francisco Apple 100
#17 M. Evans Hankey San Francisco Apple 100
#20 Christopher J. Stringer Woodside Apple 98
#21 Marta Karczewicz San Diego Qualcomm 95
#22 Christopher Wilson San Francisco Apple 94
#23 Xiang Li Saratoga Tencent America 93
#24 Shota Aoyagi San Francisco Apple 91
#24 Aleksandar Damnjanovic Del Mar Qualcomm 91

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