Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Capitola, CA ranks #1,269 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 107 patents from 64 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Capitola, CA include Apple, Amazon, Certicom. That works out to 10.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 64 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Mark Zimmer Apple 6
1 Anoop Menon Amazon 6
3 Daniel O'Loughlin Certicom 5
#4 Matthias D. Vitten Driscoll'S 4
#4 John P. Absmeier Delphi Technologies 4
#4 Drew B. Lawson IBM 4
#7 Travis D. Wilbur View 3
#7 Gabriele Zingaretti Restoration Robotics 3
#7 Greg Johnson Rangestar Wireless 3
#7 Eric Horton Bell Sports 3
#7 Carlos D. Fear Driscoll Strawberry Associates 3
#7 Michael McAndrews Specialized Bicycle Components 3
#7 Curtis Leslie Rieser Sinusys 3
#14 Gregory J. Marting Bell Sports 2
#14 Charles Donald Deets, Jr. Meta 2
#14 Brian Lampman Fox Factory 2
#14 Molly Elizabeth Shoemaker Bell Sports 2
#14 Michael A. Desjardin Intarcia Therapeutics 2
#14 Greg Marting Bell Sports 2
#20 Ayelet Voskoboynik Stanford University 1
#20 Ray A. Sears Verizon 1
#20 David Gelphman Apple 1
#20 Waldon Lewis 1
#20 Thomas Bonura Apple 1
#20 Clarence EMMONS Microcube 1
#20 Todd Martz 1
#20 Carl Darius Bird Specialized Bicycle Components 1
#20 Francois J. Henley Silicon Genesis 1
#20 Ron Hadar Tigo Energy 1
#20 Alan Lyndon Grantz Seagate Technology 1
#20 Kirk Alan Martin Rkd Engineering 1
#20 Jai Advani Accenture Global Services Limited 1
#20 Douglas H. Williams Oracle 1
#20 Jeremy Thompson Specialized Bicycle Components 1
#20 Damian S. Matthews Geneweave Biosciences 1
#20 Doug Zumbiel Avaya 1
#20 Dane Iracleous Nautilus Data Technologies 1
#20 Kenneth V. Miller RTX (Raytheon) 1
#20 Albert W. Wegener Samplify Systems 1
#20 Raymond Samaha Mendel Biotechnology 1
#20 Michael McAndrews 1
#20 Paul T. Snow The Boeing 1
#20 Albert T. Borchers Google 1
#20 Ryan Okrant 1
#20 John B. Baker Expoimaging 1
#20 Randy Cardona Unknown 1
#20 Fred Fishburn Micron 1
#20 Josh H. Golden Applied Materials 1
#20 Dave Camarillo Auris Health 1
#20 Jeremy Korn Intel 1

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