Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Los Angeles, CA ranks #31 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 62,110 patents from 12,377 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Los Angeles, CA include Nant Holdings Ip, Pacesetter, Warsaw Orthopedic. That works out to 15.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 12,377 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Patrick Soon-Shiong Nant Holdings Ip 448
2 Gene A. Bornzin Pacesetter 381
3 Gary K. Michelson Warsaw Orthopedic 343
#4 Robert J. Greenberg Second Sight Medical Products 324
#5 Paul Kenneth Pickard Cree 310
#6 Bran Ferren Applied Minds 307
#7 Fei Liu IBM 270
#8 Ajey Poovannummoottil Jacob Globalfoundries 227
#9 Frank Nuovo 209
#10 Jeremy Voss Snap 208
#11 Arthur B. Raitano Latency 164
#12 Jaime Sanchez Solana Therabody 158
#13 Benjamin Nazarian Therabody 143
#13 Eduardo Merino Therabody 143
#15 Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis Snap 141
#15 Evan Spiegel Snap 141
#15 Gene Fein Lunatech 141
#18 Jason Wersland Therabody 140
#19 Leonid M. Litvak Advanced Bionics Ag 139
#20 Sandeep Khanna Netlogic Microsystems 128
#21 Jonathan M. Rodriguez, II Snap 123
#22 Subramanian S. Iyer IBM 118
#23 Rene S. Hubert Latency 116
#23 Mark Evan Cerny Sony 116
#25 Nathan Kenneth Boyd Snap 114
#26 Teodor Dabov Apple 113
#26 Gerard Guy Medioni Amazon 113
#28 Ki Il Kim Samsung 109
#29 Laurent Desserrey Snap 107
#30 Mark C. Miner Nike 106
#31 Mary Faris Latency 104
#32 Raghuram L. V. Petluri Korrus 102
#32 Shinobu Hattori Sony 102
#34 Celia Dominguez Chdi Foundation 101
#35 Jianchao Yang Snap 98
#36 Benjamin Gross Caraway Home 97
#36 David Raysse Skechers U.S.A., Inc. Ii 97
#38 Kalle Ahmavaara Qualcomm 95
#39 Kevin Kane Arktura 94
#40 Daniel Mahgerefteh Finisar 93
#41 Ronald A. Katz Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing 92
#41 Daniel Moreno Snap 92
#43 Michael D. Swinson Truecar 91
#44 Raynold M. Kahn Directv 90
#45 Varghese John Elan Pharmaceuticals 89
#46 Yoshikazu Takashima Sony 88
#47 Jianjun Chen Huawei 87
#47 Samuel Edward Hare Snap 87
#47 Scott E. Fraser Caltech 87
#50 Alan L. Backus Unknown 83

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