Top Inventors in San Fernando, CA

San Fernando, CA ranks #361 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 8,722 patents from 2,303 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in San Fernando, CA include Prince Sports, Movandi, Qualcomm. That works out to 364.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 2,303 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Stephen J. Davis	Prince Sports	100
2	Farid Shirinfar	Movandi	91
3	Xiliang Luo	Qualcomm	81
#4	Albert G. Bodine	Tri-State Oil Tools	67
#5	Scott Schumacher	IBM	55
#5	Kenneth M. Sprouse	RTX (Raytheon)	55
#7	Eric M. Lorenzen	Medtronic	51
#8	William S. Fortune	Edsyn	50
#9	Ben M. Hsia	—	49
#10	Jeffery W. Nicholson	Anthony	45
#10	Christopher Glupker	Bradshaw Home	45
#12	Craig V. Taylor	Ramtron International	41
#12	Wayne A. Morgan	Medtronic	41
#14	Alan Z. Ullman	The Boeing	40
#14	Matthew William Yavorsky	Medtronic	40
#14	Douglas R. Jungwirth	The Boeing	40
#17	Gordon W. Culp	—	37
#17	Charles J. McPhee	I-Flow	37
#19	Juan M. Alderete, Jr.	Medtronic	36
#20	Christopher A. Bang	Microfabrica	33
#20	Elliott Baumbach	Disney	33
#22	Benjamin Grill	Sturman Bg	32
#23	Jack R. Lewis	La-Z-Boy Incorporated	30
#24	Pradip V. Choksi	American Hospital Supply	29
#25	Donald Masters	Scimed Life Systems	28
#25	Bruce W. Smith	Rochester Institute Of Technology	28
#25	Ted Judd	Amgen	28
#28	William J. Seiler	Elonex Ip Holdings	27
#28	Jeffrey F. Field	Medsolve Technologies	27
#28	John A. Werner	Eli Lilly	27
#28	Harold J. Hamilton	Sentera	27
#32	Paul Edmund Baker	The Procter & Gamble	26
#32	Henry V. Krigmont	Wahlco	26
#32	Walter Wolf	Behr Gmbh &	26
#32	Christopher G. Griffin	Medtronic	26
#32	Zareh Khachatoorian	Olympia Industrial	26
#37	Carlos M. Santana	Apple	25
#37	Irwin L. Newberg	Hughes Aircraft	25
#39	William A. Edwards	Lancer	24
#39	Daniel H. Villegas	Medtronic	24
#39	Joshua Allan Fuchs	Arkade	24
#39	Gopikrishnan Soundararajan	Medtronic	24
#39	Clyde L. Tichenor	Unknown	24
#39	Emmanuel A. Hanna	Bobrick Washroom Equipment	24
#39	John Stockwell	3D Systems	24
#39	Gary Martin Zelman	—	24
#39	Daniel K. Smith	Specialized Health Products	24
#48	Mark Sandnes	Anthony	23
#48	Yann Schrodi	Materion	23
#48	Mun Pook Lui	Boston Scientific	23

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