Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Dana Point, CA ranks #1,120 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 3,009 patents from 393 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Dana Point, CA include Senorx, Adaptive Computing Enterprises, AbbVie. That works out to 90.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 393 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Paul Lubock Senorx 210
2 David Brian Jackson Adaptive Computing Enterprises 158
3 John E. Donello AbbVie 140
#4 David Perry Sony 123
#5 Todd Huschka Km Fashion Eyewear 98
#6 Jack H. Kulp Traffix Devices 71
#7 Dmitri Boutoussov 70
#8 Nariman Yousefi Broadcom 56
#8 Jason D. Veltz Newfrey 56
#10 Yariv Donde AbbVie 51
#11 Brian P. Johnson London Johnson 46
#12 Ya-Hong Xie University of California 42
#13 Justin Mann Microsoft 39
#14 Alexei V. Babkin Adagio Medical 38
#15 Lakshman R. Sehgal Biovec 37
#16 Sean Kyne P&P Imports 35
#17 Thomas W. Burns Glaukos 33
#18 Philipp J. Wolf Apple 32
#19 Lee Nordan Presbyopia Therapies 29
#20 Aaron J. Mendelsohn Viasat 27
#21 Gilbert Madrid Endologix 26
#22 David Helton Eli Lilly 25
#23 Mark S. Hammond The Retail Equation 24
#23 Hans Dehli Humantouch 24
#23 Eduardo Chi Sing Cianna Medical 24
#26 Jonathan Nielsen Orthalign 23
#26 Paulo Correa Empower Rf Systems 23
#28 Vladimir Miloushev F5 Networks 22
#28 Theagenis J. Abatzoglou RTX (Raytheon) 22
#30 Gayle B. Gerth Inseat Solutions 21
#30 Arnold Holmquist Medtronic 21
#30 Rodney Brenneman Boston Scientific Scimed 21
#30 T. Scott Rowe Alcon 21
#34 Tarik Naheiri Pacific Consolidated Industries 20
#35 Lisa Leighton Joe Leighton & Associates 19
#35 George Baerveldt University of California 19
#37 Mikhail Ovchinnikov Alcon 18
#37 Kenton Kimmel Newlight Technologies 18
#37 Noureddine Kermiche Western Digital Technologies 18
#40 Roger S. Sanderson Unknown 17
#41 Jeffrey F. Boigenzahn IBM 16
#41 Sunil Marolia HP 16
#43 Evgenyi Shalaev Pfizer 15
#43 Patrick O'Neill HP 15
#43 Lawrence E. Johnson Cisco 15
#46 Andrea Brundisini Claber S.P.A. 14
#46 Michael Davies Jaguar Land Rover Limited 14
#46 William J. Mergens Shaklee 14
#46 Laurent Hoffmann Abbott 14
#46 Dana S. Smith Sharp Laboratories Of America 14

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