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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Soquel, CA ranks #1,724 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 76 patents from 33 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Soquel, CA include Amazon, Applied Materials, Weatherford Technology Holdings. That works out to 7.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–33 of 33 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Isaac S. Noble Amazon 8
1 Elliot Kremerman 8
1 Ralf Hofmann Applied Materials 8
#4 Steven M. Zuniga Applied Materials 4
#4 Michael Boyd Weatherford Technology Holdings 4
#4 Peter Raymond Fransen Adobe 4
#4 David Edmonston Bloom Energy 4
#8 Michael J. Musal Bell Sports 3
#9 Robert J. Stewart Yardarm Technologies 2
#9 Daniel Carson Lyons 2
#9 Joseph F. Walsh E-Comm Incorporated 2
#9 Scott Michael Le Grand NVIDIA 2
#9 Nicole Rene Singson Bell Sports 2
#9 Chris Murray Sutro Biopharma 2
#9 John Fredrick Stephani Howmedica Osteonics 2
#9 Scott A. Young Kla-Tencor 2
#17 Eamon Briggs Bell Sports 1
#17 Ryan John Biffard Zero Motorcycles 1
#17 Niel D. Warren Apple 1
#17 Andrew Halliday Google 1
#17 Steve Lerner Amkor Electronics 1
#17 Dieter Rothmeier Emc Ip Holding Company 1
#17 Richard G. Stearns Labcyte 1
#17 Stephan G. Betz Amazon 1
#17 Joseph Whinnery Valeo Electrical Systems 1
#17 James Evans 1
#17 David Vance Newcomb 1
#17 Fathy Yassa GE 1
#17 Eric Swenson Intertrust Technologies 1
#17 Rob Tressler Cellerant Therapeutics 1
#17 Wolfgang Meier Basf Se 1
#17 David J. Allen Fallbrook Technologies 1
#17 Scott D. E. Alhart Diversey 1

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