Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Dana Point, CA ranks #989 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 138 patents from 57 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Dana Point, CA include AbbVie, Sony, Adaptive Computing Enterprises. That works out to 4.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 57 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 John E. Donello AbbVie 14
2 David Perry Sony 13
3 David Brian Jackson Adaptive Computing Enterprises 10
#4 Paul Lubock Senorx 6
#4 Tarik Naheiri Pacific Consolidated Industries 6
#6 Blayne S. Lequeux 5
#7 Jan Kjallstrom Eon Reality 4
#7 Jack H. Kulp Traffix Devices 4
#7 Thomas W. Burns Glaukos 4
#7 Jarrod Provins Ionian Technologies 4
#7 Brian P. Johnson London Johnson 4
#7 Yariv Donde AbbVie 4
#13 Justin Mann Microsoft 3
#13 Jonathan Nielsen Orthalign 3
#13 Nariman Yousefi Broadcom 3
#16 Lee Nordan Presbyopia Therapies 2
#16 Michael Davies Jaguar Land Rover Limited 2
#16 Arnold Holmquist Medtronic 2
#16 Mikhail Ovchinnikov Alcon 2
#16 Charles Wm. Stewart Konan Medical Usa 2
#16 Dmitri Boutoussov 2
#16 Kristian D. Diakov Snap 2
#16 Tyler J. Brown W.L. Gore & Associates Gmbh 2
#16 Richard Paul Walters Qualcomm 2
#25 Alex Anthony Wawiluk 3M 1
#25 Jay R Longley, Jr. 1
#25 Bradford Staph Jbsg Management 1
#25 Kenneth Hinds 1
#25 Andrew Hewitson 1
#25 Kenton Kimmel Newlight Technologies 1
#25 Laurent Hoffmann Abbott 1
#25 Aaron J. Mendelsohn Viasat 1
#25 Gilbert Madrid Endologix 1
#25 Alan Robert Federl Borg-Warner Chemicals 1
#25 William J. Mergens Shaklee 1
#25 Mark S. Hammond The Retail Equation 1
#25 Noureddine Kermiche Western Digital Technologies 1
#25 Marianne E. Mata The Boeing 1
#25 Richard A. Bender Quest Diagnostics Investments 1
#25 Javid Vahid 1
#25 Mary M. Litwinski The Boeing 1
#25 Alex Artsyukhovich Novartis Ag 1
#25 Theodore Caldwell 1
#25 Li-Lung Chao IBM 1
#25 Paul Stier 1
#25 Erik Durr Board Of Supervisors Of Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College 1
#25 Nicolas Alex Wawiluk 1
#25 Neil Paul Taylor 1
#25 Bradley Pierce US Army 1
#25 Patrick O'Neill HP 1

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