Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Capitola, CA ranks #1,243 worldwide for total patents filed in 2019, with 123 patents from 79 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Capitola, CA include Juniper Networks, Meta, Restoration Robotics. That works out to 12.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 79 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 David P. Chengson Juniper Networks 5
1 Charles Donald Deets, Jr. Meta 5
1 Gabriele Zingaretti Restoration Robotics 5
1 Ron Hadar Tigo Energy 5
#5 Bruce Foster Bishop 3
#5 Peter Pearson Trutag Technologies 3
#5 Albert T. Borchers Google 3
#5 Fred Fishburn Micron 3
#5 Drew B. Lawson IBM 3
#5 David Lilja Greenspan Coda Project 3
#5 Matthias Rath Unknown 3
#12 Peter Mrdjen 2
#12 Carlos D. Fear Driscoll Strawberry Associates 2
#12 Andrew Wheeler Gans 2
#12 Clarence EMMONS Microcube 2
#12 Travis D. Wilbur View 2
#12 Anoop Menon Amazon 2
#12 Aleksandra Niedzwiecki Unknown 2
#12 Walt Froloff Unknown 2
#12 Luke McKee 2
#12 John P. Absmeier Delphi Technologies 2
#12 Ryan Cook Sony 2
#12 Michael A. Desjardin Intarcia Therapeutics 2
#12 Raymond Ellis Ultratech 2
#12 Ericka Bermudez Pioneer (Corteva) 2
#26 Carl Haverl Amazon 1
#26 Howard A. Wood West 1
#26 John B. Baker Expoimaging 1
#26 William J. Cox Business Objects Software 1
#26 Brian Mathew Dueck 1
#26 Robert Fifield Philips 1
#26 Eric Horton Bell Sports 1
#26 Stacy L. Feemster 1
#26 Paul T. Snow The Boeing 1
#26 Terry Wayne Alsberg Warmboard 1
#26 Daniel O'Loughlin Certicom 1
#26 Frank Busalacchi 1
#26 Matthias D. Vitten Driscoll'S 1
#26 David Sierra Forsight Vision5 1
#26 Jennifer Le Roy Novoloop 1
#26 Michelle McCune Big Heart Pet 1
#26 Mark Zimmer Apple 1
#26 Xavier Stonestreet Ebay 1
#26 Jennifer Davis Akzo Nobel N.V. 1
#26 Peter G. Goetz US Air Force 1
#26 Remco Treffkorn 1
#26 Michael McAndrews Specialized Bicycle Components 1
#26 Jeromy William Henry Google 1
#26 Stephen C. Maruyama Enerallies 1
#26 Harry A. Soulette 1

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