Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Soquel, CA ranks #2,119 worldwide for total patents filed in 2019, with 67 patents from 38 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Soquel, CA include Applied Materials, Adobe, Elance. That works out to 6.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–38 of 38 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Elliot Kremerman 8
2 Ralf Hofmann Applied Materials 5
3 Peter Raymond Fransen Adobe 4
#4 Jonathan Paul Diller Elance 3
#4 Michael Boyd Weatherford Technology Holdings 3
#4 Steven S. Noble Microsoft 3
#4 Scott A. Young Kla-Tencor 3
#4 Fathy Yassa GE 3
#9 Michael J. Musal Bell Sports 2
#9 Jeremy Jacob D'Ambrosio Plantronics 2
#9 Robert J. Stewart Yardarm Technologies 2
#9 Eamon Briggs Bell Sports 2
#9 Chad C. Smith Unknown 2
#14 Wolfgang Meier Basf Se 1
#14 David J. Allen Fallbrook Technologies 1
#14 Chris Murray Sutro Biopharma 1
#14 Daniel Andrew Attema 1
#14 Steven M. Zuniga Applied Materials 1
#14 David E. Stroud Specialized Bicycle Components 1
#14 Scott Michael Le Grand NVIDIA 1
#14 Masao Yokota Daihen 1
#14 Stephan G. Betz Amazon 1
#14 Joseph L. Acayan 1
#14 Paul A. Kele Bell Sports 1
#14 Darrin Caddes Plantronics 1
#14 Joseph Whinnery Valeo Electrical Systems 1
#14 Richard G. Stearns Labcyte 1
#14 David Edmonston Bloom Energy 1
#14 Hoshgeldy Tachmuradov Amazon 1
#14 Niel D. Warren Apple 1
#14 Andrew Halliday Google 1
#14 Dirk Wodtke Sap Ag 1
#14 John C. Knights Xerox 1
#14 Martin L. Hess Ebay 1
#14 Eric Swenson Intertrust Technologies 1
#14 Braden Carter Ebay 1
#14 Thomas Chris Newcomb Google 1
#14 Daniel P. Saraliev Intuitive Surgical 1

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