Top Cities in California 2021

Rank City Patents Inventors
#1 San Francisco, CA 16,045 7,035
#2 San Jose, CA 15,977 6,693
#3 San Diego, CA 13,146 4,495
#4 Sunnyvale, CA 6,650 3,062
#5 Mountain View, CA 5,361 2,642
#6 Palo Alto, CA 4,814 2,152
#7 Santa Clara, CA 4,596 2,083
#8 Fremont, CA 4,209 1,880
#9 Beijing, CA 3,819 730
#10 Cupertino, CA 3,768 1,477
#11 Los Angeles, CA 3,242 1,742
#12 Irvine, CA 2,318 1,142
#13 Redwood City, CA 2,230 1,107
#14 Los Altos, CA 1,936 775
#15 San Mateo, CA 1,834 902
#16 Saratoga, CA 1,831 618
#17 Menlo Park, CA 1,761 805
#18 Shanghai, CA 1,734 431
#19 Oakland, CA 1,722 882
#20 Los Gatos, CA 1,620 619
#21 Lo Wu, CA 1,583 315
#22 Pleasanton, CA 1,504 623
#23 Seoul, CA 1,424 319
#24 Berkeley, CA 1,391 727
#25 Santa Monica, CA 1,306 567

Top Inventors in California 2021

Rank Inventor City Company Patents
1 Tao Luo San Diego Qualcomm 326
2 Wanshi Chen San Diego Qualcomm 254
3 Peter Gaal San Diego Qualcomm 229
#4 Shan Liu San Jose Tencent America 191
#5 Jonathan P. Ive San Francisco Apple 187
#6 Jing Sun San Diego Qualcomm 164
#7 Xiaoxia Zhang San Diego Qualcomm 149
#8 Duncan Robert Kerr San Francisco Apple 144
#9 Bartley K. Andre Los Gatos Apple 136
#10 Eugene Antony Whang San Francisco Apple 130
#11 Marta Karczewicz San Diego Qualcomm 122
#12 Rico Zörkendörfer San Francisco Apple 121
#13 M. Evans Hankey San Francisco Apple 118
#13 Yuehai Li Rancho Cucamonga 39F Usa 118
#15 Alan C. Dye San Francisco Apple 116
#15 Peter Russell-Clarke San Francisco Apple 116
#17 Jeremy Bataillou San Francisco Apple 115
#17 Xiang Li Saratoga Tencent America 115
#17 Jody Akana Los Altos Hills Apple 115
#20 Julian Hoenig San Francisco Apple 105
#21 Shota Aoyagi San Francisco Apple 104
#22 Alberto Rico Alvarino San Diego Qualcomm 103
#23 Joseph Binamira Soriaga San Diego Qualcomm 101
#24 Kai Zhang San Diego Bytedance 98
#25 Anthony Michael Ashcroft San Francisco Apple 95

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