Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Los Angeles, CA ranks #29 worldwide for total patents filed in 2022, with 3,521 patents from 1,855 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Los Angeles, CA include Snap, Nant Holdings Ip, Cree. That works out to 0.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,855 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Jeremy Voss Snap 42
2 Patrick Soon-Shiong Nant Holdings Ip 36
3 Paul Kenneth Pickard Cree 25
#4 Jaime Sanchez Solana Therabody 24
#5 Gerard Guy Medioni Amazon 23
#6 Jason Wersland Therabody 22
#6 Richard Kim Canoo Technologies 22
#6 Benjamin Nazarian Therabody 22
#6 Mark Evan Cerny Sony 22
#10 Evan Spiegel Snap 21
#10 Eduardo Merino Therabody 21
#10 Raghuram L. V. Petluri Korrus 21
#13 Fei Liu IBM 20
#14 Laurent Desserrey Snap 19
#14 Ajey Poovannummoottil Jacob Globalfoundries 19
#16 Ian M. Richter Apple 18
#16 Jonathan M. Rodriguez, II Snap 18
#18 Samuel Edward Hare Snap 17
#19 Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis Snap 16
#19 Jiahao Li Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University 16
#21 Daniel Moreno Snap 15
#22 Nathan Kenneth Boyd Snap 13
#22 Martin F. BURNS Bruin Biometrics 13
#22 Michael D. Swinson Truecar 13
#22 Michael Cieslak Snap 13
#22 Tony Mathew Snap 13
#27 Andrew Villegas Korrus 12
#28 Aydogan Ozcan University of California 11
#28 Amir Tehrani Lagom Kitchen 11
#28 Wentao Shang Snap 11
#31 Gregory D. Goodno 10
#32 Huseyin Eser Kirkizlar Natera 9
#32 Michael Ben Fleischman Bluefin Labs 9
#32 Gene A. Bornzin Pacesetter 9
#32 Dylan E. Entelis Juul Labs 9
#32 Ali Atefi Communications Systems 9
#37 Justin Huang Snap 8
#37 Jianjun Chen Huawei 8
#37 Matthew Hanover Snap 8
#37 Matthew John Malone Juul Labs 8
#37 Mikhail G. Shapiro Caltech 8
#37 Ansuman Adhikary Ericsson 8
#43 Anthony M. Accardo Disney 7
#43 Aleksandr Mashrabov Snap 7
#43 Justin J. Chow Toyota 7
#43 Hai Wei Amazon 7
#43 Paul Kats Vyng 7
#43 Sohrab Pirayesh Vyng 7
#43 Christine Bonzon Xencor 7
#43 Linjie Luo Snap 7

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