Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Aliso Viejo, CA ranks #674 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 4,979 patents from 729 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Aliso Viejo, CA include Cardiothoracic Systems, Abbott, AbbVie. That works out to 95.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 729 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Ivan Sepetka Cardiothoracic Systems 110
2 Mark S. Vreeke Abbott 103
3 Patrick M. Hughes AbbVie 99
#4 David Cole Apple 84
#5 Rui Filipe Andrade Pereira Sony 75
#6 Andrew T. Schieber Ivantis 74
#7 Matthew T. Winston Edwards Lifesciences 70
#8 Mark Malamut Emc Ip Holding Company 62
#9 Mohyee Mikhemar Broadcom 60
#10 Matthew J. Fitz Microvention 55
#10 Nicholas A. Malachowski Fca Us Llc. 55
#12 Jon E. Chatterton Alcon Research 54
#12 Scott David Kee Caltech 54
#14 Yue Wu Qualcomm 52
#14 Norman Bruce Moore Western Well Tool 52
#16 Ragnar H. Jonsson Conexant Systems 50
#17 George R. Greene, Jr. Microvention 49
#17 Ichiro Aoki Axiom Microdevices 49
#19 Atakan Peker Liquidmetal Technologies 48
#20 Christopher Warren Depuy Synthes Products 39
#21 Gregory T. Smedley Glaukos 38
#22 Teodoro S. Jimenez Edwards Lifesciences 37
#22 Joseph Lee Haughawout Comcast 37
#24 Bruce A. Thrush The Parallax Group International 34
#24 Garret Florian Grajek Secureauth 34
#24 Matthew Braden Flowers 34
#24 Rudolph Ernst Krueger, V Western Well Tool 34
#28 Bernard Lee Tesla 33
#28 Tai D. Tieu Microvention 33
#30 Mayank Goyal Mg Stroke Analytics 31
#30 Cesario Dos Santos Alcon 31
#32 Tammo Heeren Novartis Ag 30
#32 Gregory Saul Harrison Skybell Technologies 30
#34 Francesco Nesta Synaptics Incorporated 29
#35 Peiwen Cheng Medtronic 28
#35 Aaron Baldwin Microvention 28
#37 Jibin Yang Edwards Lifesciences 27
#38 Zbigniew Pietrzkowski Vdf Futureceuticals 26
#38 Mark R. Allen Fiber Optic Designs 26
#38 Dean Schaefer Rox Medical 26
#41 Naser Imran Hossain Niagara Bottling 25
#41 Meghana Bhatt The Nielsen Company (Us) 25
#41 Rachel Payne The Nielsen Company (Us) 25
#41 Suresh Kumar Singamsetty Wisilica 25
#45 Ali Nazemi Broadcom 24
#45 Zhi-Yuan Shen E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 24
#45 Atul Gupta Gennum 24
#48 Shao-Chun Chen HP 23
#48 Sumant Milind Hanumante Snap 23
#50 Cathy Lei Microvention 22

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