Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

La Honda, CA ranks #3,144 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 960 patents from 85 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in La Honda, CA include Pelikan Technologies, Applied Materials, Gopro. That works out to 980.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 85 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Dominique Freeman Pelikan Technologies 162
2 Dominic J. Benvegnu Applied Materials 119
3 Timothy Macmillan Gopro 76
#4 Michael Gould Lightmatter 43
#5 Cheryl Heiner Pacific Biosciences Of California 37
#5 James E. Young 37
#7 Ryan Orr Apple 29
#8 Holly Knight Microsoft 28
#9 Jacob P. Stine Sony 26
#10 Ann Waldhauer Sunpower 25
#10 Stephen R. Haddock Extreme Networks 25
#12 Jeffrey Alan Tilley Colgate-Palmolive 24
#13 Daniel K. Negus Coherent 23
#14 James M. Hayes Stryker 18
#15 Reed Hastings Rational Software 15
#16 Christopher D. McKillop Apple 14
#16 Terry M. Smith Space Systems/Loral 14
#18 Stefan A. Kowalski Apple 13
#18 Geoffrey Lalonde X Development 13
#18 Nicolas J. Moll Agilent Technologies 13
#21 Geert Rosseel Sonics 12
#21 Christopher P. Wilson Vista Research Group 12
#23 Gregory C. Smith Thomson Licensing 9
#24 Jennifer Melrose Bioseek 8
#24 Bernhard Friebe Intel 8
#24 Fred Waldhauer Resound 8
#24 Patricia Wiener Xerox 8
#28 Eva M. Knodt Fluential 7
#28 Alex L. Bangs Entelos 7
#30 Scott Paul Goodson Meta 6
#30 Andrew C. Minden Alzeta 6
#32 Lawrence S. Gullman Osaka Gas Co. 5
#32 Jeffrey E. Clarke 5
#32 Henry Tom Quidel 5
#35 William M. Kelley University of Pennsylvania 4
#35 Stanley Miguel Lanning Netflix 4
#35 Haile S. Clay Unknown 4
#35 David R. L. Worthington Health Hero Network 4
#35 Donald F. Grieve Krebs Engineers 4
#40 Stephen Billings Jackson Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated 3
#40 John K. Landre Synoptics Limited 3
#40 Robert K. Oatman 3
#40 Charles Ryan-Harris Applied Materials 3
#40 Kenneth O. Beckman Lufkin Industries 3
#40 William A. Johnson Rapiscan Systems 3
#40 Michael H. Wiefel University of California 3
#40 Robert Haight Cocomo Mb Communications 3
#40 Jenny Schlee Vadem 3
#40 Baylor B. Triplett Intel 3
#40 Laurence Poirier Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3

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