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Edwards Lifesciences
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Edwards Lifesciences
— 1,692 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#499
of
105,732
Top 1%
941
inventors
1,692
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 2000 to 2025
Bar chart with a peak of 172 patents in 2024.
peak 172
2000: 5 patents
2000
2001: 23 patents
2002: 27 patents
2003: 26 patents
2003
2004: 36 patents
2005: 19 patents
2006: 27 patents
2006
2007: 17 patents
2008: 21 patents
2009: 24 patents
2009
2010: 34 patents
2011: 42 patents
2012: 32 patents
2012
2013: 46 patents
2014: 52 patents
2015: 48 patents
2015
2016: 66 patents
2017: 61 patents
2018: 91 patents
2018
2019: 133 patents
2020: 152 patents
2021: 157 patents
2021
2022: 112 patents
2023: 137 patents
2024: 172 patents
2024
2025: 132 patents
2025
Top Inventors at Edwards Lifesciences
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
941
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Tamir S. Levi
105
2
Netanel Benichou
102
3
Eric Robert Dixon
95
#4
Sergio Delgado
94
#5
Brian S. Conklin
86
#5
David M. Taylor
86
#7
Stanton J. Rowe
75
#8
Louis A. Campbell
74
#9
Asher L. Metchik
73
#10
Travis Zenyo Oba
71
#11
Matthew T. Winston
67
#12
Alexander J. Siegel
65
#13
David Maimon
60
#13
Son V. Nguyen
60
#15
Manouchehr A. Miraki
59
#16
Lauren R. Freschauf
57
#17
Mark Chau
55
#18
Ziv Yohanan
53
#19
Boaz Manash
47
#19
Elena Sherman
47
#21
Qinggang Zeng
46
#22
Rafael Pintor
42
#23
Gregory Scott Tyler, II
41
#24
Derrick Johnson
40
#25
Mark Dehdashtian
39
#25
Oded Meiri
39
#27
Alain F. Carpentier
38
#27
Bella Felsen
38
#29
David Alon
37
#29
Michael Bukin
37
#29
Yaron Keidar
37
#32
Da-Yu Chang
36
#32
Emil Karapetian
36
#34
Jan Otto Solem
35
#34
Nikolay Gurovich
35
#36
August R. Yambao
34
#37
Thanh Huy Le
32
#38
Assaf Bash
31
#38
Michael C. Murad
31
#38
Tri D. Tran
31
#41
Benjamin Spenser
30
#41
Faisal Kalam
30
#41
Seung-Beom Yi
30
#41
William C. Brunnett
30
#45
Ralph Schneider
29
#45
Robert Bowes
29
#45
Tomer Saar
29
#48
Diana Nguyen-Thien-Nhon
28
#48
Donald E. Bobo, Jr.
28
#50
Hengchu Cao
27
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