Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Gilroy, CA ranks #496 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 250 patents from 89 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Gilroy, CA include Alpha And Omega Semiconductor, Micron, NVIDIA. That works out to 4.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 89 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Hamza Yilmaz Alpha And Omega Semiconductor 37
2 Witold Kula Micron 20
3 Ziyad S. Hakura NVIDIA 13
#4 Richard S. Ginn Integrated Vascular Systems 10
#5 Christopher B. Fleizach Apple 9
#6 Anton Davydov Apple 8
#7 Anthony D. Minervini Knowles Electronics 7
#8 Gavin R. Sills Driscoll Strawberry Associates 6
#8 Theodore J. Schmidt Juniper Networks 6
#8 Andrea M. Pabon Driscoll Strawberry Associates 6
#11 Bruce McNutt IBM 5
#11 Michael S. Cox Applied Materials 5
#11 Omar Alonso Macy Real Action Paintball, Inc (Rap4) 5
#11 Wendy R. Bergman Yoder Brother 5
#15 Timothy Alton Xcerra 4
#15 John H. Mylius Apple 4
#17 Glenn O'Rourke AMD 3
#17 Bum Ki Moon Infineon Technologies Ag 3
#17 Peter R. Harper Freeescale Semiconductor 3
#17 Shifeng Pan Irm 3
#17 Lara Hawrylchak Applied Materials 3
#17 James A. W. Shoemaker Rennovia 3
#23 Mihaela Cozmi Hospira 2
#23 Cynthia Ann Gabriel IBM 2
#23 Eric W. Ewald Google 2
#23 Majid Mehrpouyan Becton, Dickinson And 2
#23 Glen T. Mori Applied Materials 2
#23 William Johanson Applied Materials 2
#23 Martin A. Hilkene Applied Materials 2
#23 John Strassner Futurewei Technologies 2
#23 William Daniel Willey Research In Motion Limited 2
#23 Timothy A. Fayram Pacesetter 2
#23 Curt L. Cotner IBM 2
#23 Torleif Ove Bjornson Aclara Biosciences 2
#23 Ronald Vern Schauer Applied Materials 2
#23 Donald Peregrine Clarke Tata Communications (America) 2
#23 Scott Mullins Apple 2
#38 David J. Lima Juniper Networks 1
#38 Abril Cabreros Alta Devices 1
#38 Andrea Olgiati Amazon 1
#38 Mariusch Gregor Applied Materials 1
#38 Harold L. Sontag Apple 1
#38 Mitchell E. Hanes Goldsmith Seeds 1
#38 Shouwei Hao Apple 1
#38 Rudi Groppe Heinzen 1
#38 Olivier Dabrowski Microsoft 1
#38 Michael Tripoli Netflix 1
#38 Ed Carmen Unknown 1
#38 Thomas M. Valeri Nuvosun 1
#38 Benjamyn Serna Abbott 1

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