Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Capitola, CA ranks #1,356 worldwide for total patents filed in 2020, with 110 patents from 62 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Capitola, CA include Meta, Apple, Tigo Energy. That works out to 11.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 62 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Charles Donald Deets, Jr. Meta 10
2 Stephen E. Dey Apple 5
2 Ron Hadar Tigo Energy 5
2 David Sierra Forsight Vision5 5
#5 Aleksandra Niedzwiecki Unknown 4
#5 Michael McAndrews Specialized Bicycle Components 4
#5 Matthias Rath Unknown 4
#8 Melina McLarty Nutanix 3
#8 Michael A. Desjardin Intarcia Therapeutics 3
#8 Jason DeFrancesco 3
#11 Carlo Catalano Apple 2
#11 Matthias D. Vitten Driscoll'S 2
#11 Mitchell Brooks Lam Research 2
#11 Fred Fishburn Micron 2
#11 Albert T. Borchers Google 2
#11 Carl Haverl Amazon 2
#11 Anoop Menon Amazon 2
#11 Ray A. Sears Verizon 2
#11 Marcos R. Vescovi Apple 2
#11 Gabriele Zingaretti Restoration Robotics 2
#11 Francois J. Henley Silicon Genesis 2
#11 Thomas Poliquin Lumenetix 2
#23 Travis D. Wilbur View 1
#23 Alan Lyndon Grantz Seagate Technology 1
#23 Doug Bowman Nuscale Power 1
#23 Kirk Alan Martin Rkd Engineering 1
#23 Skip Hanson Emc Ip Holding Company 1
#23 Laura Ismail 1
#23 Clarence EMMONS Microcube 1
#23 Jeromy William Henry Google 1
#23 Stephen C. Maruyama Enerallies 1
#23 Phillip McClurg Thermo Fisher 1
#23 Kenneth V. Miller RTX (Raytheon) 1
#23 David Lilja Greenspan Coda Project 1
#23 Peter Mrdjen 1
#23 Carl Fredric Weitz 1
#23 William J. Colfer Plant Sciences 1
#23 Dane Iracleous Nautilus Data Technologies 1
#23 Greg Scott Intel 1
#23 Jeremy Korn Intel 1
#23 Terry Wayne Alsberg Warmboard 1
#23 Scott Norton Ppd Biomarker Discovery Sciences 1
#23 Daniel O'Loughlin Certicom 1
#23 Douglas Bowman Wherenet 1
#23 Ravikumar Ramanathan Embarcadero Technologies 1
#23 Jennifer Le Roy Novoloop 1
#23 Bryant Grigsby Lumenetix 1
#23 Charles R. Sampson US Navy 1
#23 Anthony D. Williams AMD 1
#23 John P. Absmeier Delphi Technologies 1

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