Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Gilroy, CA ranks #544 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 246 patents from 94 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Gilroy, CA include Alpha And Omega Semiconductor, NVIDIA, Applied Materials. That works out to 4.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 94 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Hamza Yilmaz Alpha And Omega Semiconductor 24
2 Ziyad S. Hakura NVIDIA 14
3 Michael S. Cox Applied Materials 13
#4 Anton Davydov Apple 9
#4 Christopher B. Fleizach Apple 9
#6 Scott Mullins Apple 6
#6 Mitchell E. Hanes Goldsmith Seeds 6
#6 Richard S. Ginn Integrated Vascular Systems 6
#6 Witold Kula Micron 6
#6 James A. W. Shoemaker Rennovia 6
#11 Renaud-Roland Hubert Google 5
#12 John H. Mylius Apple 4
#12 Lara Hawrylchak Applied Materials 4
#12 Cynthia Ann Gabriel IBM 4
#12 Benny Serna Abbott 4
#12 Peter R. Harper Freeescale Semiconductor 4
#17 Andrea M. Pabon Driscoll Strawberry Associates 3
#17 Mauricio Antonio Hernandez-Sherrington IBM 3
#17 Roger William Wood Hgst Netherlands, B.V. 3
#17 James W. Pickel IBM 3
#17 Martin A. Hilkene Applied Materials 3
#17 Robert Watts 3
#17 Gavin R. Sills Driscoll Strawberry Associates 3
#17 Benjamyn Serna Abbott 3
#17 Omar Alonso Macy Real Action Paintball, Inc (Rap4) 3
#17 Wendy R. Bergman Yoder Brother 3
#17 Bruce McNutt IBM 3
#17 Jae C. Schwartz Thermo Finnigan 3
#17 Shifeng Pan Irm 3
#17 Karl Kissa Jds Uniphase 3
#31 Victor Briones Visby Medical 2
#31 Scott Allen Mullin Apple 2
#31 Reiner Kraft IBM 2
#31 Peter Geoffrey Jones Cisco 2
#31 Siamak Bastami Integrated Device Technology 2
#31 Eric W. Ewald Google 2
#31 Bum Ki Moon Infineon Technologies Ag 2
#31 John Troini Unisys 2
#31 Ron Boja NVIDIA 2
#31 Gabriel Valencia IBM 2
#31 Mariusch Gregor Applied Materials 2
#31 Rudi Groppe Heinzen 2
#31 Anthony D. Minervini Knowles Electronics 2
#31 Donald Peregrine Clarke Tata Communications (America) 2
#31 John Strassner Futurewei Technologies 2
#31 Jacob A. Abruzzini Finis 2
#47 Miguel Alejandro Lara-Pena Apple 1
#47 Glen T. Mori Applied Materials 1
#47 William Johanson Applied Materials 1
#47 Hector Ivan Oporta Qualcomm 1

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