Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Gardena, CA ranks #2,014 worldwide for total patents filed in 2020, with 71 patents from 34 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Gardena, CA include Toyota, Applied Materials, The Boeing. That works out to 1.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–34 of 34 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 John W. Pringle, IV 10
1 Jared Farnsworth Toyota 10
3 Yung-Chen Lin Applied Materials 6
#4 John W. Pringle-Iv The Boeing 5
#5 Paul Schneider Commscope Technologies 4
#5 Michael Hong Abbott 4
#7 Ashish Kulkarni Graymatter Robotics 3
#8 Alexandr Shkolnik Global Filtration Systems 2
#8 William Joseph Smith Honeywell 2
#10 Jeremy J. Thornton 1
#10 Alexander D. Liu Unknown 1
#10 Keith Kimura 1
#10 Adam Hodge Greenberg RTX (Raytheon) 1
#10 Gregory D. Jackson Blendtec 1
#10 Sheila Hatcher 1
#10 Brandon Quon 1
#10 I-Ting Wu 1
#10 Aimen E. Shawki The Boeing 1
#10 Michael Marsh Borgwarner 1
#10 Brandon Crow RTX (Raytheon) 1
#10 Sharon Hoffman Shen Manufacturing Company Incorporated 1
#10 Mark Kennedy Broadcom 1
#10 Shehan James 1
#10 Hidetoshi Kusumi Toyota 1
#10 An Vuong Directv 1
#10 Nagarajan Thiyagarajan 1
#10 Manuel A. Montano Banana Bros 1
#10 Ignacio Hernandez Brady Worldwide 1
#10 Andrew Pirie 1
#10 Cody Rhebergen Harbinger Motors 1
#10 Paul Satrom Dynamic Research 1
#10 David Shao Belkin International 1
#10 Hisanori Ito Renesas Electronics 1
#10 Kenneth Kawanishi Harbinger Motors 1

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