Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Altadena, CA ranks #1,215 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 112 patents from 54 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Altadena, CA include Caltech, The University Of Chicago, City Of Hope. That works out to 2.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 54 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Morteza Gharib Caltech 10
2 Rustem F. Ismagilov The University Of Chicago 7
2 Saswati Chatterjee City Of Hope 7
2 Kamehameha Wong City Of Hope 7
#5 David Horne City Of Hope 5
#6 Lon E. Bell Bsst 4
#6 Jean-Paul Labrosse Steelcase 4
#8 Wayne Loynes Gamblit Gaming 3
#8 Mark Pickett Minka Lighting 3
#8 Jerry Birkes AT&T 3
#8 Martin A. Stuart 3
#8 Thomas F. Carruth Weeks Wholesale Rose Grower 3
#8 Charles DeBoer Doheny Eye Institute 3
#8 Marcel Mitran IBM 3
#15 Pietro Perona Caltech 2
#15 Jean-Pierre Fleurial Caltech 2
#15 Wally Ewald Rippel Aerovironment 2
#15 Bruce L. Drolen The Boeing 2
#15 Karn Sorasaenee Caltech 2
#15 Stephen L. Cunningham National University Of Ireland, Galway 2
#15 Thomas A. Tombrello Caltech 2
#22 Stanislav G. Djorgovski Caltech 1
#22 Scott Douglas Larocca Disney 1
#22 Jorge Alted Disney 1
#22 Robert Chess Stetson Drisk 1
#22 Terrance L. Huntsberger Caltech 1
#22 Amit Singh Nagra Rockley Photonics Limited 1
#22 Pamela J. Bjorkman Caltech 1
#22 Ulvi Yurtsever RTX (Raytheon) 1
#22 Daniel P. Weitekamp Caltech 1
#22 Carolina Isabel Rodriguez Disney 1
#22 Shawn Wagner Cedars Sinai Medical Center 1
#22 William F. Hug Photon Systems 1
#22 Brian Wilson Jeyes Group Limited 1
#22 Richard E. Wirz University of California 1
#22 Jacob Aptekar Drisk 1
#22 Derrick Rodgers Harman International Industries, Incorporated 1
#22 Nenad Jelisavcic Convergent Dental 1
#22 Jared Leadbetter Caltech 1
#22 David Christian Windham Unknown 1
#22 Bruce R. Hancock Caltech 1
#22 Michael J. Mennes Siemens Industry 1
#22 Tracy Keim 23Andme 1
#22 Alejandro Backer Ab Inventio 1
#22 Kimberly Porter Disney 1
#22 Arthur Herman Haedike, III Vyng 1
#22 Kourosh Kian Avery Dennison 1
#22 Derrick Rogers Harman International Industries, Incorporated 1
#22 Lewis Randolph Watson, IV 1
#22 Leigh B. Roberts, Jr. Qwire 1

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