Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Sept 30, 2025

Los Angeles, CA ranks #85 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 61,348 patents from 12,377 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Los Angeles, CA include Caltech, Hughes Aircraft, Eli Lilly. That works out to 15.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 12,201–12,250 of 12,377 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#7008 Rafael Beer 1
#7008 Hung van Le 1
#7008 Zeev Rav-Noy Caltech 1
#7008 Herbert E. Heath Hughes Aircraft 1
#7008 Joel Eckstein 1
#7008 Arthur Cherkin Eli Lilly 1
#7008 Yuri Likhtik 1
#7008 Yuan Shu-Hua 1
#7008 Charles D. Smithdeal 1
#7008 Kavasseri V. Vaidyanathan Hughes Aircraft 1
#7008 Kelvin L. Merz Anco Engineers 1
#7008 Niels A. Thompson Hughes Aircraft 1
#7008 Ramiro E. Cervantes, Sr. 1
#7008 Teena L. Dobbs Hughes Aircraft 1
#7008 CHI-KUEI CHANG 1
#7008 Lyman C. Baldwin, Jr. 1
#7008 Suzanne Knittel 1
#7008 Robert L. Forkish 1
#7008 Derrick Schmidt 1
#7008 Paul R. Sohmer Xoma 1
#7008 Dustin S. Nelson 1
#7008 Marc S. Granirer 1
#7008 Jean W. Bardenheier 1
#7008 King K. Huang 1
#7008 Robert J. Steppe The Ralph M. Parsons 1
#7008 Dan Tucker 1
#7008 Kelvin L. Starks 1
#7008 Jamie K. Oxman 1
#7008 Walter A. Kristkeitz Mattel 1
#7008 Steven F. Abo 1
#7008 Alejandro G. Issac 1
#7008 Eugene P. Shaffer 1
#7008 Cecil G. Bancalari Icu Medical 1
#7008 Charles P. Andrikian Hughes Aircraft 1
#7008 Fu-Nan Wang 1
#7008 Douglas E. Bickle 1
#7008 Nelson Converse 1
#7008 Matti Raz Danaher 1
#7008 Randall C. Hatton 1
#7008 Garrett J. Leversee 1
#7008 F. Kristian Storm 1
#7008 Yoshinobu Sakihara 1
#7008 Vahakn K. Gharibian Light Signatures 1
#7008 Gretchen Buck 1
#7008 Anthony Poplawski 1
#7008 Frank Furutera 1
#7008 Jacob Pardo Barry Wright 1
#7008 Richard Hirschkoff 1
#7008 Chen De shen 1
#7008 Glen A. Barfus-Shanks 1

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