Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Altadena, CA ranks #950 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 133 patents from 65 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Altadena, CA include IBM, Caltech, The University Of Chicago. That works out to 3.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 65 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Marcel Mitran IBM 28
2 Morteza Gharib Caltech 12
3 Rustem F. Ismagilov The University Of Chicago 6
#4 Stephen L. Cunningham National University Of Ireland, Galway 5
#4 Martin A. Stuart 5
#6 Charles DeBoer Doheny Eye Institute 4
#7 David Horne City Of Hope 3
#7 Pascual J. L. Wawoe Unknown 3
#7 Pietro Perona Caltech 3
#7 Douglas T. Crane Bsst 3
#7 Lon E. Bell Bsst 3
#12 Thomas A. Tombrello Caltech 2
#12 Jerry Birkes AT&T 2
#12 Peter Stepniewicz Disney 2
#12 Bruce L. Drolen The Boeing 2
#16 Hrag Saboundjian 1
#16 Kourosh Kian Avery Dennison 1
#16 Anna Hickerson Akonni Biosystems 1
#16 Paul H. Patterson Caltech 1
#16 Nikhil Jain GE 1
#16 Thomas A. Tombrello Applied Invention 1
#16 David Clegg Sybase 1
#16 Anna Iwaniec Hickerson Abbott 1
#16 Alnasir Ladha Teradata Us 1
#16 Daniel Van Blerkom Forza Silicon 1
#16 Jean-Paul Labrosse Steelcase 1
#16 John C. McCreary 1
#16 Isabelle M. Darolles Caltech 1
#16 Ronald C. Gamble Topometrix 1
#16 Daniel Louis Kahn Caltech 1
#16 Timothy R. CROWDER Yahoo Holdings 1
#16 Kelly Ann Chapman Ams Research 1
#16 Wilfred W. Kwok Intel 1
#16 Maral Gharib Medtronic 1
#16 Kenneth Smith 1
#16 Robert Chess Stetson Drisk 1
#16 Bruce R. Hancock Caltech 1
#16 Michael Kahn Molecumetics 1
#16 Steve P. Monacos NASA 1
#16 Trent Spencer Wells Doheny Eye Institute 1
#16 Paul E. Dimotakis Caltech 1
#16 James Edward Nuccio 1
#16 Randal Brumbaugh 1
#16 Erik Winfree Caltech 1
#16 Marc Striegel 1
#16 Jan A. Orlowski Scientific Pharmaceuticals 1
#16 Daniel P. Weitekamp Caltech 1
#16 Yoaz E. Bar-Sever Caltech 1
#16 William I. Bertiger Caltech 1
#16 William F. Hug Photon Systems 1

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