Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

La Palma, CA ranks #6,759 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 356 patents from 127 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in La Palma, CA include Travelers Club Luggage, General Motors, Roger Cleveland Golf Company. That works out to 22.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 127 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Peter Yu Travelers Club Luggage 20
2 Young Doo General Motors 19
3 Michael D. Sandoval Roger Cleveland Golf Company 16
3 Larry M. Tichauer Ophir Rf 16
#5 Choonsup Lee Caltech 15
#6 Thomas C. Yu Buschman 12
#7 David Chu City Of Hope 10
#7 Steven J. Mass 10
#9 Christine Liau Advanced Poymer Systems 9
#9 Peter G. Ragay Tp Solar 9
#9 Yuyi Lee 9
#12 John R. Randall, Jr. 8
#13 Paul S. C. Lee Trw Limited 7
#14 Norman Booth Cathrx 6
#14 Vincent Williams Technicolor 6
#14 Armaan Saini 6
#17 Ron K. Nakahira RTX (Raytheon) 5
#17 Mohitash Brijwasi Honda Motor Co. 5
#17 Gary Evans L3 Commmunications Avionics Systems 5
#17 Hwail Jin Samsung 5
#21 Wallace W. Chen Hughes Aircraft 4
#21 Deven Shah Behr Process 4
#21 Louis Stephen Toth Integrated Medical Systems 4
#21 Ramesh C. Doshi 4
#21 Roger R. Tomlinson Hughes Aircraft 4
#26 John M. Kelleher Trico Industries 3
#26 John Dennis 3
#26 Jung Ku Cho Captek Softgel International 3
#26 Huei Wang Trw Limited 3
#26 Roland Sands Performance Machine 3
#26 Charles Hyunsang Suh The Boeing 3
#26 Peter Kwok Juniper Networks 3
#26 Giri Natarajan Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 3
#34 Hou Man Chong Johnson & Johnson 2
#34 Khalid Mahmood Microsoft 2
#34 Aubrey Yuen 2
#34 Christopher Jen-Yue Wei Singular Genomics Systems 2
#34 Maurice L. Burleson 2
#34 Joseph G. Shih 2
#34 Gerald T. Brine US Air Force 2
#34 David J. Nakamura The Boeing 2
#34 Duck Gi Min 2
#34 San Chin Conexant Systems 2
#34 Barbara Woolner 2
#34 David H. Heller Baverican 2
#34 Jyh-Fong Tsaur Thales Avionics 2
#34 Bevan Wright 2
#34 Don Billow International Connectors & Cable 2
#34 Guillermo Mas 2
#34 Virendrakumar Shah Citibank, N.A. 2

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