US States — Patent Rankings All Time

All 50 states and territories ranked by total patent count

Rank State Patents Inventors Cities
1 California 2,859,885 386,348 1,260
2 New York 724,771 115,490 1,542
3 Texas 721,541 125,132 1,137
#4 Massachusetts 555,678 88,656 562
#5 Washington 479,748 76,902 448
#6 Michigan 456,889 86,293 865
#7 Illinois 434,740 84,256 1,124
#8 New Jersey 408,815 69,400 764
#9 Ohio 386,080 73,341 1,021
#10 Pennsylvania 384,343 74,527 1,484
#11 Minnesota 337,717 52,454 729
#12 Florida 292,627 67,251 634
#13 North Carolina 252,402 45,564 657
#14 Colorado 214,552 40,980 339
#15 Wisconsin 211,560 40,088 700
#16 Oregon 211,267 28,073 307
#17 Connecticut 209,008 34,797 311
#18 Arizona 183,349 32,909 200
#19 Georgia 169,730 35,610 501
#20 Indiana 169,414 33,936 600
#21 Virginia 164,145 34,511 625
#22 Maryland 156,442 35,612 456
#23 Missouri 102,980 23,789 671
#24 Utah 99,086 19,430 245
#25 Tennessee 90,135 20,272 431
#26 Iowa 73,735 15,303 682
#27 Idaho 72,758 8,810 174
#28 South Carolina 70,458 15,501 324
#29 New Hampshire 68,799 12,181 289
#30 Oklahoma 55,221 12,736 419
#31 Kansas 53,017 12,005 450
#32 Kentucky 51,461 11,577 408
#33 Nevada 48,631 8,397 76
#34 Delaware 41,209 7,163 77
#35 Vermont 39,290 4,968 229
#36 Alabama 38,222 10,951 414
#37 New Mexico 36,169 9,035 182
#38 Louisiana 34,768 10,876 339
#39 Rhode Island 30,611 6,211 70
#40 Nebraska 22,515 5,697 325
#41 Arkansas 20,375 5,804 299
#42 Maine 19,056 4,281 343
#43 Mississippi 13,787 4,257 265
#44 District of Columbia 13,012 3,063 1
#45 West Virginia 12,890 3,425 318
#46 Montana 12,604 3,198 193
#47 Hawaii 9,653 2,560 70
#48 North Dakota 8,798 2,395 221
#49 South Dakota 7,884 2,308 231
#50 Wyoming 7,338 1,797 109
#51 Alaska 2,978 1,355 60
#52 Puerto Rico 2,823 1,143 77
#53 Virgin Islands 178 33 3
#54 Guam 116 20 4

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