Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Culver City, CA ranks #584 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 5,826 patents from 898 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Culver City, CA include Medtronic, Snap, Nantbio. That works out to 142.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 898 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Michael E. Miller Medtronic 140
2 Andrew James McPhee Snap 109
3 Kayvan Niazi Nantbio 88
#4 Russell Douglas Patton Snap 83
#5 Gary A. Demos Dolby Laboratories Licensing 80
#6 Ye Tao Sz Dji Technology Co. 79
#7 Kevin Roundy Broadcom 77
#8 Rebecca K. Gottlieb Medtronic 73
#9 Bo Jiang Jiangnan University 71
#10 Wangmao Ge Latency 68
#10 Kaveh Anvaripour Snap 68
#12 Ryan Field Hi 64
#13 John Zachary Sanborn University of California 59
#14 David Richmond Trade Box 56
#15 Matheen Siddiqui Nant Holdings Ip 53
#15 Stephen Charles Benz Nantomics 53
#17 Maxim Maximov Lazarov Snap 51
#17 Gerald Nilles Snap 51
#19 Michael A. de Rooij Efficient Power Conversion 50
#20 Michael J. O'Brien Bp P.L.C. 49
#20 Ricardo L. de Queiroz Xerox 49
#22 Hans G. Klingemann Immunitybio 45
#22 Kamil Wnuk Nant Holdings Ip 45
#24 David A. Rockwell RTX (Raytheon) 43
#25 Dennis A. Tracy 41
#26 Haw-Chan Tan Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co. 39
#26 Vaibhav Mathur Magic Leap 39
#26 Yoav Ben-Haim Snap 39
#26 Kevin Liu Applied Optoelectronics 39
#26 Moti Tavassoli Arktura 39
#31 Nestor Apuya Ceres 38
#32 Salman Monirabbasi Medtronic 36
#32 Mathias Andreas Hintermann Snap 36
#34 Paul E. Debevec University Of Southern California 34
#35 Adam Glick Broadcom 32
#35 Takashi Kuribayashi Honda Motor Co. 32
#35 George Weising Sony 32
#35 Laurent H. Boissel Immunitybio 32
#35 John H. Lee Decibel Therapeutics 32
#40 Charles Joseph Vaske Nant Holdings Ip 30
#41 Jun Mao Broadcom 29
#41 Thomas H. King Globeimmune 29
#41 Bernardo J. Herzer Unknown 29
#41 John F. Silny RTX (Raytheon) 29
#45 Henri B. Lenterman Intro-Tech Automotive 28
#45 David Hoyt Principle Plastics 28
#47 Daniel Kats Nortonlifelock 27
#48 Luke Haylock Arconic 26
#48 Christopher Charles Ward Asml Holding N.V. 26
#48 Andrea Ashwood Snap 26

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