Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Lake Forest, CA ranks #327 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 431 patents from 195 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Lake Forest, CA include Edwards Lifesciences, Panasonic, Masimo. That works out to 5.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 195 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 David M. Taylor Edwards Lifesciences 22
2 Philip Watson Panasonic 15
3 Cristiano Dalvi Masimo 10
#4 Xiaojun Liu University of Pennsylvania 9
#4 James Gerg Johnson & Johnson 9
#4 Wei Wei BOE 9
#4 Steven Bates Panasonic 9
#4 Kemal Curic Ford 9
#4 Wei Hsu 9
#10 Alex Philip McCann Edwards Lifesciences 8
#10 Matthew M. Becerra Applied Medical Resources 8
#12 Lingfeng Yu Novartis Ag 6
#12 Babak Ebrahimi Acclarent 6
#14 David A. Smith, JR. Acclarent 5
#14 Steven Poteet Goodrich 5
#14 James M. Thompson Sequent Medical 5
#14 Brian Kenneth Erickson Aveva Software 5
#14 Sean Merritt Masimo 5
#14 Omar Ahmed Masimo 5
#20 Ramakanth Mudumba Amazon 4
#20 Glen T. Rabito Edwards Lifesciences 4
#20 Jong-Ee Oh KAIST 4
#20 Joey Reglos Vertiflex 4
#20 Geoffrey C. Begen Stamps.Com 4
#20 Dae Kyun Lee Samsung 4
#20 Jonas Goode Western Digital Technologies 4
#20 Arun Ramakrishnan IBM 4
#28 Neal A. Harrison The Boeing 3
#28 Jeffrey Norris Ixi Technology Holdings 3
#28 Jorge Baez Cambro Manufacturing 3
#28 Kevin Qu Quest Diagnostics Investments 3
#28 David Wagstaff Smartdrive Systems 3
#28 Noriaki Hamasaki Ssb Design 3
#28 Christian Posse Microsoft 3
#28 Balaji Raghunathan Sap Se 3
#28 Henry Hsu Ossur Iceland Ehf 3
#28 Matthew Lovett Spectrum Brands 3
#28 Dino L. Roman The Boeing 3
#28 Michael R. Bialas Edwards Lifesciences 3
#28 Sungwhan Cha Masimo 3
#28 David Downey Spectrum Brands 3
#28 Rosen Ognyanov Baklov Amazon 3
#28 Mikhail Slepchenkov Tae Technologies 3
#28 Jaeyoung Ryu Newracom 3
#45 Gregory A. Olsen Masimo 2
#45 Andrew March Nativis 2
#45 Shrenik Shah Panasonic 2
#45 Theodore A. Waniuk 2
#45 Ryan Takakawa Novartis Ag 2
#45 Kim-Huei Low Sony 2

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