Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Corona, CA ranks #537 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 6,296 patents from 1,452 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Corona, CA include Kabushiki Kaisha Pilot, Ford, National Instruments. That works out to 40.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,452 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Frank J. Hodges Kabushiki Kaisha Pilot 97
2 Kosta Papanikolaou Ford 70
3 Hugo Andrade National Instruments 66
#4 Henry Kahle Applied Medical Resources 65
#5 Dennis M. Turner Cosco Management 61
#6 Francis J. Spahn Intertrust Technologies 60
#7 Rongsheng Li The Boeing 55
#8 Emmanuel P. Quevy Silicon Laboratories 53
#9 Nguyen To Mophie 51
#9 Raymond A. Felix Stauffer Chemical 51
#11 Thomas Edward Strasser Northrop Grumman 45
#11 Kirston E. Koths Chiron 45
#13 Qui-Lim Choo Chiron 42
#13 Ronald N. Zuckermann Chiron 42
#15 George W. White Arthrocare 41
#16 Eugene G. Teach Stauffer Chemical 40
#16 Matthew J. Gerules Sanford 40
#18 Faisal Kalam Edwards Lifesciences 35
#19 George D. Cimino Cerus 34
#19 Eric Porteous New World Medical 34
#21 Brian C. Cunningham Genentech 32
#21 David K. Farley National Technology & Engineering Solutions Of Sandia 32
#23 Hyok Lee Corona Clipper 31
#24 Edward J. Nance Onset Medical 29
#24 Steven V. Cates Repligen 29
#24 Terrence J. Hunt AbbVie 29
#27 Khalid Mansour Carefusion 207 27
#27 Kraig A. Kirschner Automatic Fire Control 27
#29 Mark A. Lundgren The Boeing 26
#29 Jim Chen Futurewei Technologies 26
#29 Craig P. Jacobson University of California 26
#29 Scott Janis Illumina 26
#29 Joel P. Keily Dispensing Dynamics International 26
#29 Timothy Hughes Siemens Aktiengesellschaft 26
#35 Ernie R. Alfonso Direct Wheel 24
#36 Alan Cohn Lift-U, Division Of Hogan Mfg. 23
#36 James LaBelle Luminara Worldwide 23
#36 Peter Klaerner Basf Se 23
#36 Eric Davis Halliburton Energy Services 23
#40 Myron Howanec, Jr. Edwards Lifesciences 22
#41 William Strong Bio-Rad Laboratories 21
#42 Richard C. Horian 20
#42 Hung H. Cao AT&T 20
#42 Whitney W. Smith Cytokinetics 20
#42 Robert W. Bachtel Chevron 20
#42 Rajeev Atluri Inmage Systems 20
#42 Ronald S. Fearing University of California 20
#42 Jifei Jia Nanostellar 20
#42 Clinton Yee Group-A Autosports 20
#50 Christian Luc Landel Advanced Flow Engineering 19

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