Top Cities in California 2022

Rank City Patents Inventors
#1 San Francisco, CA 16,381 6,999
#2 San Jose, CA 15,721 6,617
#3 San Diego, CA 14,404 4,447
#4 Sunnyvale, CA 6,725 3,097
#5 Mountain View, CA 5,225 2,575
#6 Palo Alto, CA 4,744 2,072
#7 Santa Clara, CA 4,650 2,128
#8 Beijing, CA 4,590 767
#9 Fremont, CA 3,998 1,867
#10 Los Angeles, CA 3,521 1,855
#11 Cupertino, CA 3,464 1,445
#12 Irvine, CA 2,027 1,077
#13 Redwood City, CA 2,005 1,047
#14 San Mateo, CA 1,873 919
#15 Shanghai, CA 1,873 451
#16 Lo Wu, CA 1,819 331
#17 Los Altos, CA 1,811 762
#18 Saratoga, CA 1,780 602
#19 Oakland, CA 1,651 883
#20 Los Gatos, CA 1,631 593
#21 Menlo Park, CA 1,554 754
#22 Pleasanton, CA 1,437 617
#23 Seoul, CA 1,401 317
#24 Milpitas, CA 1,311 650
#25 Santa Monica, CA 1,245 554

Top Inventors in California 2022

Rank Inventor City Company Patents
1 Tao Luo San Diego Qualcomm 515
2 Shan Liu San Jose Tencent America 268
2 Xiaoxia Zhang San Diego Qualcomm 268
#4 Wanshi Chen San Diego Qualcomm 257
#5 Jing Sun San Diego Qualcomm 244
#6 Jonathan P. Ive San Francisco Apple 243
#7 Peter Gaal San Diego Qualcomm 214
#8 Duncan Robert Kerr San Francisco Apple 193
#9 Eugene Antony Whang San Francisco Apple 187
#10 Bartley K. Andre Los Gatos Apple 183
#11 M. Evans Hankey San Francisco Apple 180
#11 Jody Akana Los Altos Hills Apple 180
#11 Peter Russell-Clarke San Francisco Apple 180
#14 Jeremy Bataillou San Francisco Apple 175
#15 Kai Zhang San Diego Bytedance 163
#16 Shota Aoyagi San Francisco Apple 161
#17 Benjamin Andrew Shaffer San Jose Apple 160
#18 Sony Akkarakaran Poway 157
#18 Anthony Michael Ashcroft San Francisco Apple 157
#20 Rico Zörkendörfer San Francisco Apple 153
#21 Julian Hoenig San Francisco Apple 147
#22 Xiang Li Saratoga Tencent America 146
#23 Li Zhang San Diego Bytedance 141
#24 Yan Zhou San Diego Qualcomm 132
#25 Molly Anderson San Francisco Apple 129

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