Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Santa Ana, CA ranks #801 worldwide for total patents filed in 2022, with 173 patents from 125 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Santa Ana, CA include Edwards Lifesciences, Taylor Made Golf Company, Resilience Magnum Ip. That works out to 0.6 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 Louis A. Campbell Edwards Lifesciences 9
2 Bill Price Taylor Made Golf Company 6
3 John Elwood Resilience Magnum Ip 4
3 Torgeir Hagland Sony 4
#5 Vikrant Sharma Masimo 3
#5 Ashwin Raghunathan Qualcomm 3
#5 Jose Comino Passy-Muir 3
#5 John Michael Macpherson 23Andme 3
#5 Parker Milhous Microvention 3
#5 Ping-Yang Shih Edwards Lifesciences 3
#11 Thomas K. Tsotsis The Boeing 2
#11 James R. Metzger 2
#11 Douglas E. Ward Saint-Gobain Ceramics & Plastics 2
#11 Ben Wei Chen Kingston Technology 2
#11 Ali A. Nikooyan Dmf 2
#11 Dung Ma Abbott 2
#11 Thien Nguyen Solmetex 2
#11 Eric Karl Kinast Masimo 2
#11 Tammy Huntley Edwards Lifesciences 2
#11 Phuong M. Nguyen Millennium Pharmaceuticals 2
#11 Robert Nguyen Secure-Ic Sas 2
#11 John F Tangredi 2
#11 Virginia Thanh Ta Masimo 2
#11 Nga Ting Wong Microvention 2
#11 Thomas Obkircher Skyworks Solutions 2
#11 Jeffrey S. Dove Edwards Lifesciences 2
#11 Omid Nasiby Space Exploration Technologies 2
#28 Larry Kent Barnthouse Intel 1
#28 Tan Q. Dinh Sequent Medical 1
#28 Carroll Benford Dickens 1
#28 Alvin Nam Oh Strike Industries 1
#28 John Vu 1
#28 Steven Hang Masimo 1
#28 Ronald R. Soto Norotos 1
#28 Christopher Wong Ctc Global 1
#28 Hilda Z. Fann Edwards Lifesciences 1
#28 Guang Xu GE 1
#28 Chris Allan Vanderhagen 1
#28 Ben Wu 1
#28 Hong Du Applied Materials 1
#28 Kendall Perkins 1
#28 Rondell Gamble 1
#28 Shareef J. Biltagi 1
#28 Herbert Gross Carl Zeiss Stiftung 1
#28 Jodi M. Allen General Motors 1
#28 Bao Le Packard Hughes Interconnect 1
#28 Richard Rodgers 1
#28 Mark E. Steen Advanced Medical Optics 1
#28 David J. Schuessler AbbVie 1
#28 Jason G. Beith Foldax 1

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