Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Capitola, CA ranks #1,024 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 123 patents from 75 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Capitola, CA include Amazon, Silicon Genesis, Tigo Energy. That works out to 12.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 75 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Anoop Menon Amazon 5
1 Francois J. Henley Silicon Genesis 5
1 Ron Hadar Tigo Energy 5
1 Albert W. Wegener Samplify Systems 5
1 Mark Zimmer Apple 5
#6 Michael McAndrews Specialized Bicycle Components 4
#6 Gabriele Zingaretti Restoration Robotics 4
#8 Alan Lyndon Grantz Seagate Technology 3
#8 Curtis Leslie Rieser Sinusys 3
#8 Jeromy William Henry Google 3
#11 Stephen C. Maruyama Enerallies 2
#11 John P. Absmeier Delphi Technologies 2
#11 Ericka Bermudez Pioneer (Corteva) 2
#11 Robert Keith Mykland 2
#11 John P. Goetz St. Jude Medical, Atrial Fibrillation Division 2
#11 Josh H. Golden Applied Materials 2
#11 David Sierra Forsight Vision5 2
#11 John B. Baker Expoimaging 2
#11 Bruce Foster Bishop 2
#11 James Paul Rivers Cisco 2
#11 Jeremy Thompson Specialized Bicycle Components 2
#11 Mark Clark Plantronics 2
#11 Joaquin Menezes Yardarm Technologies 2
#11 Steve Evans Plantronics 2
#11 Joe Smyth Headway Technologies 2
#11 Brian Lampman Fox Factory 2
#27 Walt Froloff Unknown 1
#27 Michael G. Lipton Bayer Materialscience Ag 1
#27 Sara Ledterman 1
#27 David P. Chengson Juniper Networks 1
#27 Joseph Ramaekers 1
#27 Charles J. Neerdaels Akamai Technologies 1
#27 Dale Sinor Oracle 1
#27 Junwon Kim Te Connectivity Co. 1
#27 Drew B. Lawson IBM 1
#27 Jennifer Davis Akzo Nobel N.V. 1
#27 Phillip McClurg Thermo Fisher 1
#27 Martin P. Madesko Driscoll Strawberry Associates 1
#27 Meghan Novack Psi Systems 1
#27 Peter G. Goetz US Air Force 1
#27 Xavier Stonestreet Ebay 1
#27 Keith L. Barrie Invensas 1
#27 Steve Schellenberg St. Jude Medical, Atrial Fibrillation Division 1
#27 Michael McAndrews 1
#27 Jayant S. Karmarkar 1
#27 Thomas Bonura Apple 1
#27 Travis D. Wilbur View 1
#27 Carl Darius Bird Specialized Bicycle Components 1
#27 Herbert Jellinek Fusionone 1
#27 Yong Kwon Park 1

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