Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Malibu, CA ranks #926 worldwide for total patents filed in 2020, with 167 patents from 55 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Malibu, CA include Tesla, Hrl Laboratories, Google. That works out to 15.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 55 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Franz Von Holzhausen Tesla 15
1 Andrew P. Nowak Hrl Laboratories 15
3 Christopher S. Roper Hrl Laboratories 9
3 Hartmut Neven Google 9
#5 Mark C. Estes Asante Solutions 8
#5 Logan D. Sorenson Hrl Laboratories 8
#5 Hung Nguyen Hrl Laboratories 8
#8 Roger Pennell Ceres 7
#9 David T. Chang Hrl Laboratories 5
#9 Andrew Conrad Verily Life Sciences 5
#9 Andrew John Howe Microsoft 5
#9 Randall L. Kubena Hrl Laboratories 5
#9 Alexander E. Quilici Youmail 5
#14 Brian Russell Irise 4
#14 David W. Payton Hrl Laboratories 4
#16 Daniel Yap Hrl Laboratories 3
#16 Ryan G. Quarfoth Hrl Laboratories 3
#16 Lisa Nugent Amgen 3
#16 Amir M. Rahimi Hrl Laboratories 3
#16 Scott M. Biesboer Hrl Laboratories 3
#21 Roger Wang Battlearms Ip 2
#21 Michael E. Kasaba Artisan Vehicle Systems 2
#21 Kevin Geary Hrl Laboratories 2
#21 Robert W. Cumberland Hrl Laboratories 2
#21 Carl Lebel Otonomy 2
#26 Robert Walling Ockerman Automation Consulting 1
#26 Michael M. Karch Quartus Engineering Incorporated 1
#26 Steven Kronick Visual Targeting 1
#26 Andrea Corrion Hrl Laboratories 1
#26 Jon Burton 1
#26 Eric Savitsky University of California 1
#26 Jean Patrick Netter 1
#26 Thomas P. Sprafke RTX (Raytheon) 1
#26 Joel M. Matta Depuy Synthes Products 1
#26 Minh B. Nguyen Hrl Laboratories 1
#26 Mike Kasaba Artisan Vehicle Systems 1
#26 Christopher Swanhart Hrl Laboratories 1
#26 Garrett Li Gerson Global Apparel Partners 1
#26 Peter Tompkins Citicorp Development Center 1
#26 Daniel G. Hahn Roadmaster 1
#26 Manny Jerrold Adler Snap 1
#26 Jeffrey Bowles Hrl Laboratories 1
#26 James Robert Black 1
#26 Storm Sondors 1
#26 Edward J. Dohring Quartus Engineering Incorporated 1
#26 Ike Z. Adler Snap 1
#26 Randall C. Adams 1
#26 Felix Nagelin John Deere 1
#26 Alexander Haden Gellis 1
#26 Richard W. Steele Cornerstone Automation Systems 1

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