Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

San Clemente, CA ranks #602 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 209 patents from 125 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in San Clemente, CA include Mbit Wireless, Ivantis, Silver State Intellectual Technologies. That works out to 3.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 125 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Bhaskar Patel Mbit Wireless 10
2 John Wardle Ivantis 6
2 Michael L. Obradovich Silver State Intellectual Technologies 6
2 Rick Sanghera Cameron Health 6
#5 Michael L. Jones Senorx 5
#5 Zsolt Bor Alcon 5
#7 Walter Soto AT&T 4
#7 Eric Schultheis Bolton Medical 4
#7 Laszlo O. Romoda Aquesys 4
#7 Stefan Schreck Endologix 4
#11 John Michael Dobbles Dexcom 3
#11 Ke Zhang Quest Diagnostics Investments 3
#11 Donald L. Gadberry Applied Medical Resources 3
#11 Gregory William Stoutenburgh Epica International 3
#11 David Erickson Broadcom 3
#11 Xialing Guo AbbVie 3
#11 Andrew Streett The Boeing 3
#11 Shahn S. Sage Medtronic 3
#11 Yanchen Zhang Anacor Pharmaceuticals 3
#20 Brian E. Merritt Sequent Medical 2
#20 Peter L. Bradshaw The Retail Equation 2
#20 Felipe Almanza Traffix Devices 2
#20 Bilal Muhsin Masimo 2
#20 Malcolm Williams 2
#20 Gregory A. Unruh Archive 2
#20 Blair D. Walker Alsius 2
#20 Vitas Jonas Sipelis Covidien Lp 2
#20 Mark J. Graham Isis Pharmaceuticals 2
#20 Larry Eugene West Broadley-James 2
#20 Larry Wares 2
#20 Michael P. Caulfield Quest Diagnostics Investments 2
#20 Alan Marcovecchio Atacor Medical 2
#20 Christian Drapeau Desert Lake Technologies 2
#20 Seth A. Foerster Arthrocare 2
#20 Gilles Lefebvre Sakura Finetek U.S.A. 2
#20 Diego Kaplan Kyocera Wireless 2
#20 Lonny V. Cabelka Medtronic 2
#20 Joseph Michael Fracassi Pacific World 2
#20 Jianzhong Huang Smithkline Beecham Limited 2
#20 Jeremy Smith Traffix Devices 2
#20 Khurram Parviz Sheikh Intel 2
#42 Guy A. Pizzarello 1
#42 Edward Preisler Newport Fab 1
#42 Scott B. Wilson Persyst Development 1
#42 Rachel Kearl 1
#42 Kate Elizabeth Mudge 1
#42 Jeffrey Beckett Avago Technologies General Ip (Singapore) Pte. 1
#42 Catherine D. St. Cyr 1
#42 Marcelo Rubio 1
#42 Scott Elliott Smith & Nephew 1

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