Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Lake Forest, CA ranks #389 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 8,047 patents from 1,030 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Lake Forest, CA include Ford, BOE, Indian Wells Medical. That works out to 93.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,030 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Kemal Curic Ford 245
2 Wei Wei BOE 207
3 Jay A. Lenker Indian Wells Medical 174
#4 David F. Woodward AbbVie 111
#5 David Downey Spectrum Brands 109
#6 Robert A. Smith Masimo 106
#7 Cristiano Dalvi Masimo 105
#8 David M. Taylor Edwards Lifesciences 102
#9 Wei Hsu 96
#10 Rex O. Bare Ibis Biosciences 90
#11 William B. Boyle Western Digital Technologies 89
#12 Peter J. Balsells Unknown 86
#13 Jong-Ee Oh KAIST 76
#14 Xiaojun Liu University of Pennsylvania 75
#15 Brian A. Horowitz American Products, L.L.C. 74
#16 Matthew M. Becerra Applied Medical Resources 71
#17 Sean Merritt Masimo 66
#18 Philip Watson Panasonic 64
#19 James Gerg Johnson & Johnson 62
#20 Dae Kyun Lee Samsung 61
#21 Arun Ramakrishnan IBM 60
#22 Martin V. Shabaz Senorx 58
#23 Oscar Romero Spectrum Brands 55
#24 Glen T. Rabito Edwards Lifesciences 54
#25 Kai Yu Lockheed Martin 53
#26 Theodore A. Waniuk Apple 52
#27 Steven Poteet Goodrich 49
#27 Jakob Bredsguard Biosynthetic Technologies 49
#27 Steven Bates Panasonic 49
#27 Joey Reglos Vertiflex 49
#31 Lingfeng Yu Novartis Ag 45
#32 Jack B. Lovley, II Bravo Sports 42
#32 James M. Thompson Sequent Medical 42
#34 Christian Posse Microsoft 41
#35 Dennis Pearson Tempo Industries 39
#36 Ketan Patel Chicago Mercantile Exchange 38
#36 Paul A. Underbrink Sirf Technology 38
#38 Gregory A. Olsen Masimo 37
#38 Omar Ahmed Masimo 37
#38 John Schmidt Masimo 37
#41 Michael S. Rothberg Western Digital Technologies 36
#41 Colette Cozean Premier Laser Systems 36
#43 Michael R. Bialas Edwards Lifesciences 35
#44 James G. Johnson Tempo Industries 34
#44 Jorge Baez Cambro Manufacturing 34
#44 Georgios Asmanis Avago Technologies General Ip (Singapore) Pte. 34
#47 Xiaoxia Liu AbbVie 33
#47 William M. Connors Lexmark International 33
#47 Jerome Novak Masimo 33
#50 Mikhail Slepchenkov Tae Technologies 32

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