Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Altadena, CA ranks #1,315 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 101 patents from 51 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Altadena, CA include Steelcase, The University Of Chicago, Ams Research. That works out to 2.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 51 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Jean-Paul Labrosse Steelcase 7
2 Rustem F. Ismagilov The University Of Chicago 5
3 Kelly Ann Chapman Ams Research 4
3 Stephen L. Cunningham National University Of Ireland, Galway 4
3 Morteza Gharib Caltech 4
3 David Horne City Of Hope 4
3 Pietro Perona Caltech 4
3 Marcel Mitran IBM 4
#9 Brian Wilson Jeyes Group Limited 3
#9 Wayne Loynes Gamblit Gaming 3
#9 Paul H. Patterson Caltech 3
#9 Thomas F. Carruth Weeks Wholesale Rose Grower 3
#9 Pamela J. Bjorkman Caltech 3
#9 Wally E. Rippel Caltech 3
#9 Martin A. Stuart 3
#16 Charles DeBoer Doheny Eye Institute 2
#16 Amit Singh Nagra Rockley Photonics Limited 2
#16 Evgueni Rozenbaoum Lg Nanoh2O 2
#16 William F. Hug Photon Systems 2
#16 Jorge Alted Disney 2
#16 Derrick Rogers Harman International Industries, Incorporated 2
#16 Robert Chave The Supporting Organization For The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum 2
#16 Arthur Herman Haedike, III Vyng 2
#24 Daniel Van Blerkom Forza Silicon 1
#24 Kourosh Kian Avery Dennison 1
#24 Jesse A. Grimes-York NASA 1
#24 Bruce L. Drolen The Boeing 1
#24 John Termini City Of Hope 1
#24 Kamehameha Wong City Of Hope 1
#24 David Potter Disney 1
#24 Gary W. Schnuckle Disney 1
#24 Michael Kahn Molecumetics 1
#24 Trent Spencer Wells Doheny Eye Institute 1
#24 Randal Brumbaugh 1
#24 Jess Firey Adkins Caltech 1
#24 Boris Korzh Caltech 1
#24 Chris Kyriakakis Audyssey Laboratories 1
#24 Jia-Ling Teo University Of Southern California 1
#24 Virendra SAROHIA Caltech 1
#24 Jean-Pierre Fleurial Caltech 1
#24 Saswati Chatterjee City Of Hope 1
#24 Wally Ewald Rippel Aerovironment 1
#24 Victor E. White Caltech 1
#24 Richard Abbott Caltech 1
#24 Andrew M. Ogden Disney 1
#24 Angus D. McRonald Global Aerospace 1
#24 Talso C. Chui NASA 1
#24 Thomas A. Tombrello Caltech 1
#24 Christopher Lau University Of Washington 1
#24 Paul Bridger International Rectifier 1

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