Top Cities in California 2025

Rank City Patents Inventors
#1 San Diego, CA 15,152 3,991
#2 San Francisco, CA 12,863 5,778
#3 San Jose, CA 12,651 5,639
#4 Sunnyvale, CA 4,930 2,340
#5 Beijing, CA 4,606 768
#6 Mountain View, CA 3,913 2,056
#7 Santa Clara, CA 3,893 1,910
#8 Palo Alto, CA 3,590 1,602
#9 Los Angeles, CA 3,146 1,677
#10 Fremont, CA 3,014 1,546
#11 Cupertino, CA 2,994 1,125
#12 Lo Wu, CA 2,105 466
#13 Irvine, CA 1,796 1,010
#14 Shanghai, CA 1,705 457
#15 Redwood City, CA 1,521 810
#16 Saratoga, CA 1,517 487
#17 San Mateo, CA 1,494 804
#18 Oakland, CA 1,386 806
#19 Los Gatos, CA 1,365 510
#20 Los Altos, CA 1,286 608
#21 Pleasanton, CA 1,185 586
#22 Seoul, CA 1,171 264
#23 Menlo Park, CA 1,086 569
#24 Suwon-si, CA 1,035 218
#25 Santa Monica, CA 1,033 477

Top Inventors in California 2025

Rank Inventor City Company Patents
1 Tao Luo San Diego Qualcomm 609
2 Dawei Zhang Saratoga Apple 335
3 Xiaoxia Zhang San Diego Qualcomm 313
#4 Shan Liu San Jose Tencent America 302
#5 Jing Sun San Diego Qualcomm 251
#6 Wei Zeng San Diego Apple 245
#7 Haitong Sun Cupertino Apple 239
#8 Hong He Cupertino Apple 232
#9 Peter Gaal San Diego Qualcomm 219
#10 Chunxuan Ye San Diego Apple 209
#11 Wanshi Chen San Diego Qualcomm 191
#12 Yan Zhou San Diego Qualcomm 189
#13 Oghenekome Oteri San Diego Apple 187
#14 Kai Zhang San Diego Bytedance 173
#15 Weidong Yang San Diego Apple 171
#16 Duncan Robert Kerr San Francisco Apple 167
#16 Jonathan P. Ive San Francisco Apple 167
#18 Bartley K. Andre Los Gatos Apple 159
#19 Xin Zhao Santa Clara Tencent America 158
#20 M. Evans Hankey San Francisco Apple 157
#21 Peter Russell-Clarke San Francisco Apple 156
#22 Li Zhang San Diego Bytedance 151
#23 Benjamin Andrew Shaffer San Jose Apple 146
#24 Shota Aoyagi San Francisco Apple 143
#25 Jie Cui San Jose Apple 141

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