Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Simi Valley, CA ranks #542 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 228 patents from 128 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Simi Valley, CA include Eca Medical Instruments, Second Sight Medical Products, Hrl Laboratories. That works out to 1.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 128 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 John Nino Eca Medical Instruments 10
2 Kelly H. McClure Second Sight Medical Products 9
3 Heiko Hoffmann Hrl Laboratories 8
#4 James Causey Medtronic 7
#5 Emanuel Feldman Boston Scientific 5
#5 Afshin Bazargan Medtronic 5
#5 Thomas Nelson Ford 5
#5 John Kordosh Homax Products 5
#5 Pavel Belik Aerovironment 5
#5 Tom Xiaohai He Incumed 5
#11 James Chingwei Li General Motors 4
#11 Anthony E. Zank Topaz Systems 4
#11 Thanh Tieu Pacesetter 4
#11 Robin Reck Implant Direct Sybron International 4
#15 Scott R. Gibson Amgen 3
#15 Robert Hucik Ca 3
#15 Lester J. Kozlowski Altasens 3
#15 Ian Montgomery Easton Diamond Sports 3
#15 Andrew Tasker Amgen 3
#15 Dewey Chauvin Easton Diamond Sports 3
#15 Walter J. Husak Dolby Laboratories Licensing 3
#15 Dean C. Regan Hrl Laboratories 3
#15 David R. Matthews RTX (Raytheon) 3
#24 Lev Freidin Boston Scientific 2
#24 Francis Menezes Syntilla Medical 2
#24 David Jeon Caltech 2
#24 David J. Zapp Skyworks Solutions 2
#24 Steve Canale Skyworks Solutions 2
#24 Paul J. Castillo Bank of America 2
#24 Frederic ST-LAURENT Easton Diamond Sports 2
#24 Christian Shrigley Disney 2
#24 Lance Hussey Brio Water Technology 2
#24 Robert Mueller Lightspeed Design 2
#24 John Peter Zwaan Aerovironment 2
#24 James Jollota Strix Systems 2
#24 Thomas Seewoester Abb Vie 2
#24 Adrian L. Smith Amgen 2
#24 Alan L. Pocrass Unknown 2
#24 Anton M. Bouckaert The Boeing 2
#40 John C. Baldwin Skyworks Solutions 1
#40 Paul McDonald US Army 1
#40 Patrick S. Kochie Doorking 1
#40 Joel Edward Bruemmer Aerojet Rocketdyne Of De 1
#40 Sarnath Chattaraj Medtronic 1
#40 Manolis Dimotakis Aerovironment 1
#40 Eric Allan Larson Medtronic 1
#40 Timothy J. Starkweather Medtronic 1
#40 John R. Morris AT&T 1
#40 Hung V. Phan Skyworks Solutions 1
#40 Paul H. Kovelman Medtronic 1

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