Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Pasadena, CA ranks #167 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 671 patents from 387 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Pasadena, CA include Gamblit Gaming, Nant Holdings Ip, Caltech. That works out to 4.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 387 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Eric Meyerhofer Gamblit Gaming 20
2 Ronald H. Cohen Nant Holdings Ip 17
3 Frank Cire Gamblit Gaming 12
#4 Changhuei Yang Caltech 9
#4 Yu-Chong Tai Caltech 9
#4 Frances H. Arnold Caltech 9
#7 James June-Ming Wang Mediatek Singapore Pte. 8
#7 John R. Ahearn Schlage Lock Company 8
#7 Frank Greer Intermolecular 8
#10 Jordan Matthew Neysmith Second Sight Medical Products 7
#10 Sean Caffey Minipumps 7
#12 William A. Goddard, III Caltech 6
#12 Gunter D. Niemeyer Intuitive Surgical 6
#12 Kerry Vahala Caltech 6
#15 Michael L. Roukes Caltech 5
#15 Michael Dooley Irobot 5
#15 Aditya Rajagopal Caltech 5
#15 David Baltimore Caltech 5
#15 Mark E. Davis Caltech 5
#15 Robert J. Calvet Digitaloptics Corporation Mems 5
#21 Aaron John Zilkie Rockley Photonics Limited 4
#21 Feng Shen Caltech 4
#21 Imran R. Malik Caltech 4
#21 Amir Arbabi Caltech 4
#21 Adrianus I. Aria Caltech 4
#21 Richard Jove City Of Hope 4
#21 John Desjarlais Xencor 4
#21 Joseph R. Demers Emcore 4
#21 Goutam Chattopadhyay Caltech 4
#21 Dhiraj Goel Irobot 4
#21 Alexander Nelson Brooks Aerovironment 4
#21 Alan N. Willson, Jr. Pentomics 4
#33 Cesar Fuentes-Ortega Biosense Webster (Israel) 3
#33 Taison Tan 24M Technologies 3
#33 Tracey Ho Strong Force Iot Portfolio 2016 3
#33 Victor Leyva Arroyo Optics 3
#33 Henry Helvajian The Aerospace 3
#33 Joel W. Burdick Caltech 3
#33 Quinn Smithwick Disney 3
#33 Paul LeMahieu Emc 3
#33 Luis Goncalves Evolution Robotics 3
#33 Quinn Y. Smithwick Disney 3
#33 Michelle X. Zhou IBM 3
#33 Theodore Reck Caltech 3
#33 Yi Xu Zoox 3
#33 Peter Meinhold Caltech 3
#33 Donald Houston Graham, III T-Central 3
#33 Bo Chen Google 3
#33 Konstantin Maslov Washington University 3
#33 Adrian J. Tang University of California 3

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