Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

La Quinta, CA ranks #8,723 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 244 patents from 78 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in La Quinta, CA include Scm Consultants, Adtile Technologies, Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co.. That works out to 6.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 78 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Donald E. Miller Scm Consultants 42
2 Nils Forsblom Adtile Technologies 26
3 Robert W. Steins Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co. 16
#4 Pascal Sijen Dolby Laboratories Licensing 11
#5 Kevin R. Kitz Union Oil Company Of California 8
#6 Bharath Chandramohan Broadcom 7
#7 Terry D. Harper Core Systems (Ni) Limited 6
#7 Michelle Richards Magellan Group 6
#9 Michael Kohut Sony 5
#9 Ray (Ramon) Gomez Broadcom 5
#9 Dale Harper 5
#9 Bruce G. Caldwell 5
#13 Willie Edward Benjamin, III NVIDIA 4
#13 Robert Bruce Herrick RTX (Raytheon) 4
#13 Tianqiong Luo Google 4
#13 Kris Otto Friedrich 4
#17 Efren Castro 3
#17 Shannon N. Stephens 3
#17 Thomas Frederick Moog Controls Limited 3
#20 Donald Ray Merryman 2
#20 Andy Batkin 2
#20 Gregg Karman Enviroscent 2
#20 Sandra D. Taeckens Unknown 2
#20 Micah Cravalho 2
#20 Edward Mycek Xerox 2
#20 Richard T. Priestley Northrop Grumman 2
#20 Jodi B. Rubin Incucomm 2
#20 Shunshiro Yoshimi Alphatec Manufacturing 2
#20 Denise Dubarry Hay Thane International 2
#20 Craig Daugard 2
#20 Brenda Samuels 2
#20 Luis Bautista 2
#20 Thomas H. Caruso 2
#20 James Reitz 2
#20 Rodney Kenneth Knyvett 2
#20 John M. Myrick 2
#20 Mark Benyovszky Uipath 2
#38 Matthew Hladek 1
#38 Don E. Sullivan 1
#38 Dale W. Boswall Black & Decker 1
#38 Anthony Victor Mangione, III 1
#38 Schorschi Decker Bank of America 1
#38 Gordon W. Antczak 1
#38 Mark R. Dusbabek 1
#38 Roy J. Goodwin 1
#38 H. Blake Haddock 1
#38 Frank T. Lyons 1
#38 David Wood Peace 1
#38 Laszo Bayer 1
#38 William D. Gilbert 1

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