Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Grass Valley, CA ranks #2,321 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 51 patents from 32 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Grass Valley, CA include Pelican Imaging, Resonant, AMD. That works out to 3.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–32 of 32 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Gabriel Molina Pelican Imaging 5
1 Kurt F. Raihn Resonant 5
3 Shane Hollmer AMD 3
3 Timothy Johnston Finesse Solutions 3
#5 James Schuessler Samsung 2
#5 James Rodney 2
#5 Betsy Swann Conceptus 2
#5 Clinton Wilcox Scosche Industries 2
#5 Dennis Schuetzle Infinium Technology 2
#5 James R. Costa Murata Manufacturing Co. 2
#5 Robert B. DeMatteis Bob Dematteis 2
#12 Joel Snook Lunera Lighting 1
#12 Sebastian Rapport Opentv 1
#12 Jan Fleming 1
#12 David Sahuc Gvbb Holdings S.A.R.L 1
#12 Robert L. Miller Unknown 1
#12 Scott Raitt Thomson Licensing 1
#12 Donald Johnson Childers Gvbb Holdings S.A.R.L 1
#12 Charles C. Scheinost Adobe 1
#12 Dan C. Mower Intermotive 1
#12 Eitan Beth-Halachmy 1
#12 Douglas B. Crice Wireless Seismic 1
#12 Richard M. Myers Dialog Semiconductor 1
#12 Ralph Andrew Silberstein Gvbb Holdings S.A.R.L 1
#12 Theodore Yednock Elan Pharmaceuticals 1
#12 Jonathan Kennedy Inv Nylon Chemicals Americas 1
#12 Matthew Todd Lawson Cisco 1
#12 Debra Ann Beth-Halachmy 1
#12 Diane Phuong Nguyen Ventria Biosciences 1
#12 Rickey G. Swartz J.S. Land Management 1
#12 Gregory C. Langmead Apple 1
#12 Russell Elbridge Holcomb Matrix Technologies 1

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