Top Cities in California All Time
| Rank |
City |
Patents |
Inventors |
| #1 |
San Jose, CA |
289,949 |
32,062 |
| #2 |
San Diego, CA |
235,197 |
23,606 |
| #3 |
San Francisco, CA |
225,019 |
26,999 |
| #4 |
Sunnyvale, CA |
118,568 |
14,302 |
| #5 |
Palo Alto, CA |
102,302 |
9,675 |
| #6 |
Mountain View, CA |
89,675 |
11,022 |
| #7 |
Fremont, CA |
78,732 |
9,298 |
| #8 |
Santa Clara, CA |
75,863 |
9,301 |
| #9 |
Cupertino, CA |
74,517 |
6,989 |
| #10 |
Los Angeles, CA |
61,348 |
12,377 |
| #11 |
Los Altos, CA |
47,114 |
3,651 |
| #12 |
Irvine, CA |
45,913 |
6,241 |
| #13 |
Beijing, CA |
45,510 |
1,192 |
| #14 |
Saratoga, CA |
41,243 |
2,933 |
| #15 |
Redwood City, CA |
40,576 |
5,061 |
| #16 |
Los Gatos, CA |
36,179 |
2,986 |
| #17 |
Menlo Park, CA |
35,668 |
3,774 |
| #18 |
Tokyo, CA |
29,442 |
583 |
| #19 |
Pleasanton, CA |
28,418 |
3,062 |
| #20 |
San Mateo, CA |
27,797 |
3,727 |
| #21 |
Oakland, CA |
27,471 |
4,380 |
| #22 |
Carlsbad, CA |
24,941 |
2,500 |
| #23 |
Berkeley, CA |
23,729 |
3,731 |
| #24 |
Seoul, CA |
22,692 |
604 |
| #25 |
Milpitas, CA |
22,182 |
3,192 |
Top Inventors in California All Time
| Rank |
Inventor |
City |
Company |
Patents |
| 1 |
Tao Luo |
San Diego |
Qualcomm |
4,316 |
| 2 |
Jonathan P. Ive |
San Francisco |
Apple |
2,875 |
| 3 |
Peter Gaal |
San Diego |
Qualcomm |
2,489 |
| #4 |
Duncan Robert Kerr |
San Francisco |
Apple |
2,464 |
| #5 |
Bartley K. Andre |
Los Gatos |
Apple |
2,411 |
| #6 |
Wanshi Chen |
San Diego |
Qualcomm |
2,291 |
| #7 |
Eugene Antony Whang |
San Francisco |
Apple |
2,180 |
| #8 |
Xiaoxia Zhang |
San Diego |
Qualcomm |
2,062 |
| #9 |
Rico Zörkendörfer |
San Francisco |
Apple |
1,956 |
| #10 |
Peter Russell-Clarke |
San Francisco |
Apple |
1,944 |
| #11 |
Christopher J. Stringer |
Woodside |
Apple |
1,897 |
| #12 |
Daniele De Iuliis |
San Francisco |
Apple |
1,813 |
| #13 |
Jing Sun |
San Diego |
Qualcomm |
1,736 |
| #14 |
Matthew Dean Rohrbach |
San Francisco |
Apple |
1,716 |
| #15 |
Jody Akana |
Los Altos Hills |
Apple |
1,694 |
| #16 |
Daniel J. Coster |
San Francisco |
Apple |
1,688 |
| #17 |
Jeremy Bataillou |
San Francisco |
Apple |
1,648 |
| #18 |
Shan Liu |
San Jose |
Tencent America |
1,613 |
| #19 |
M. Evans Hankey |
San Francisco |
Apple |
1,609 |
| #20 |
Julian Hoenig |
San Francisco |
Apple |
1,331 |
| #21 |
Shota Aoyagi |
San Francisco |
Apple |
1,261 |
| #22 |
Clarence T. Tegreene |
San Francisco |
Elwha |
1,253 |
| #23 |
Juan Montojo |
San Diego |
Qualcomm |
1,228 |
| #24 |
Kai Zhang |
San Diego |
Bytedance |
1,168 |
| #25 |
Marta Karczewicz |
San Diego |
Qualcomm |
1,135 |
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