Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Gilroy, CA ranks #610 worldwide for total patents filed in 2019, with 248 patents from 101 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Gilroy, CA include Goldsmith Seeds, Apple, Alpha And Omega Semiconductor. That works out to 4.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 101 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Mitchell E. Hanes Goldsmith Seeds 15
2 Christopher B. Fleizach Apple 11
3 Anton Davydov Apple 10
#4 Hamza Yilmaz Alpha And Omega Semiconductor 9
#5 Witold Kula Micron 8
#5 Andrea Olgiati Amazon 8
#7 Ziyad S. Hakura NVIDIA 7
#7 Michael S. Cox Applied Materials 7
#9 Houda Graoui Applied Materials 6
#9 Wendy R. Bergman Yoder Brother 6
#11 Benjamyn Serna Abbott 5
#11 Shifeng Pan Irm 5
#11 Ganesh Jampani Xage Security 5
#11 Theodore J. Schmidt Juniper Networks 5
#15 Abdullah Reza Rubrik 4
#15 Lara Hawrylchak Applied Materials 4
#15 Karl Kissa Jds Uniphase 4
#15 Bruce McNutt IBM 4
#15 Rudi Groppe Heinzen 4
#15 Guillermo Trejo Omnicell 4
#15 Renaud-Roland Hubert Google 4
#22 Martin A. Hilkene Applied Materials 3
#22 Reiner Kraft IBM 3
#22 Peter Geoffrey Jones Cisco 3
#22 Richard S. Ginn Integrated Vascular Systems 3
#22 Gabriel Valencia IBM 3
#22 Harold L. Sontag Apple 3
#22 Mariusch Gregor Applied Materials 3
#22 Anthony D. Minervini Knowles Electronics 3
#30 Gavin R. Sills Driscoll Strawberry Associates 2
#30 Bradley Lewis Snap-On Incorporated 2
#30 Scott Mullins Apple 2
#30 Hector Ivan Oporta Qualcomm 2
#30 Pieter J. Kerstens IBM 2
#30 Glen T. Mori Applied Materials 2
#30 William Johanson Applied Materials 2
#30 Richard J. Nathan Jonetix 2
#30 Rongguo Zhou Infineon Technologies Ag 2
#30 Ronilo Boja AMD 2
#30 Andrea M. Pabon Driscoll Strawberry Associates 2
#30 Roger William Wood Hgst Netherlands, B.V. 2
#30 Geoffrey ROUTLEDGE Tula Etechnology 2
#30 Cherri M. Vidmar IBM 2
#30 James A. W. Shoemaker Rennovia 2
#30 Eric W. Ewald Google 2
#30 Victor Briones Visby Medical 2
#47 Dennis Amoroso 1
#47 Alvito Joseph Viegas Equinix 1
#47 Siamak Bastami Integrated Device Technology 1
#47 Adhish N. Vyas PayPal 1

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