Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

San Clemente, CA ranks #633 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 5,300 patents from 775 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in San Clemente, CA include Senorx, Masimo, Original Ideas. That works out to 82.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 775 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Michael L. Jones Senorx 139
2 Bilal Muhsin Masimo 127
3 Robert A. DeMars Original Ideas 123
#4 Rick Sanghera Cameron Health 92
#5 Michael L. Obradovich Silver State Intellectual Technologies 86
#6 Seth A. Foerster Arthrocare 80
#6 John Wardle Ivantis 80
#8 Stefan Schreck Endologix 76
#9 Donald L. Gadberry Applied Medical Resources 67
#9 Mark J. Graham Isis Pharmaceuticals 67
#11 Blair D. Walker Alsius 66
#12 Bhaskar Patel Mbit Wireless 60
#13 Phong D. Doan Pacesetter 57
#13 Paul R. Erickson Microsoft 57
#15 Alan Marcovecchio Atacor Medical 53
#16 Laszlo O. Romoda Aquesys 52
#17 Jianzhong Huang Smithkline Beecham Limited 50
#18 Edward Preisler Newport Fab 48
#19 Zsolt Bor Alcon 47
#19 Walter Soto AT&T 47
#19 Shahn S. Sage Medtronic 47
#22 Thomas Ludwig Rateze Remote Mgmt 40
#23 Steven Patrick Pascale Unknown 39
#24 Roger Panicacci Micron 37
#24 Scott B. Wilson Persyst Development 37
#26 Eric Schultheis Bolton Medical 36
#27 Roger J. Malcolm Stryker 35
#28 John Beck Mainstay Medical Limited 34
#28 Kamran Siminou Neuronetics 34
#28 Diego Kaplan Kyocera Wireless 34
#31 Gregory Bak-Boychuk Edwards Lifesciences 33
#31 Brian Kim Eyedaptic 33
#33 Gil Manalo Microsoft 32
#33 John Michael Dobbles Dexcom 32
#33 Felipe Almanza Traffix Devices 32
#36 Michael P. Caulfield Quest Diagnostics Investments 31
#36 Frank D'Amelio Circon 31
#38 William Randall Seeker GE 29
#39 David Erickson Broadcom 28
#39 Earl Bardsley Covidien Lp 28
#41 Yanchen Zhang Anacor Pharmaceuticals 27
#41 Kevin R. Orton 27
#43 Matthew McCawley Alcon 26
#43 Peter Godlewski Carefusion 303 26
#45 Lothar Musiol Skyworks Solutions 25
#45 Malcolm Williams Carefusion 203 25
#45 Scott Struthers Dana Innovations 25
#48 J. Michael Dobbles Dexcom 24
#48 Justin David Kleinert Taylor Made Golf Company 24
#48 Andrew I. Kimmel Biolase Technology 24

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