Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Gilroy, CA ranks #785 worldwide for total patents filed in 2020, with 196 patents from 91 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Gilroy, CA include Yoder Brother, Alpha And Omega Semiconductor, Applied Materials. That works out to 3.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 91 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Wendy R. Bergman Yoder Brother 17
2 Hamza Yilmaz Alpha And Omega Semiconductor 10
2 Lara Hawrylchak Applied Materials 10
#4 Mitchell E. Hanes Goldsmith Seeds 8
#4 Christopher B. Fleizach Apple 8
#6 Anton Davydov Apple 7
#7 Scott W. Slabaugh Apple 5
#7 Michael S. Cox Applied Materials 5
#7 Renaud-Roland Hubert Google 5
#7 Ganesh Jampani Xage Security 5
#7 Andrea Olgiati Amazon 5
#12 Byron J. Reynolds Zoll Circulation 4
#12 William Johanson Applied Materials 4
#12 Ziyad S. Hakura NVIDIA 4
#15 Gavin R. Sills Driscoll Strawberry Associates 3
#15 Harold L. Sontag Apple 3
#15 Witold Kula Micron 3
#15 James A. W. Shoemaker Rennovia 3
#19 Chris Blank Applied Materials 2
#19 Adhish N. Vyas PayPal 2
#19 Victor Briones Visby Medical 2
#19 Kong-Chen Chen Wintec Industries 2
#19 Janis Stipins, III Netflix 2
#19 Bruce McNutt IBM 2
#19 Abdullah Al Reza Rubrik 2
#19 Richard S. Ginn Integrated Vascular Systems 2
#19 Ton A. Ngo IBM 2
#19 Shay Assaf Applied Materials 2
#19 Pieter J. Kerstens IBM 2
#19 Theodore J. Schmidt Juniper Networks 2
#19 David P. Cappabianca Apple 2
#19 Jason Lee Treadwell Lam Research 2
#33 James W. Pickel IBM 1
#33 Mauricio Antonio Hernandez-Sherrington IBM 1
#33 Alejandro A. Orozco Ark Diagnostics 1
#33 Cherag S. Irani Ebay 1
#33 Carlos Alvarez Align Technology 1
#33 Martin Schlapfer Vocera Communications 1
#33 David Bautista 1
#33 Ronilo Boja AMD 1
#33 C. Kwai Kong Bell Automotive Products 1
#33 Peter R. Harper Freeescale Semiconductor 1
#33 Mark Montanez Cisco 1
#33 Mark Stephen Fitzsimmons Fox Factory 1
#33 Abdullah Reza Rubrik 1
#33 Benjamyn Serna Abbott 1
#33 Jeffrey Andresen Nanotronics Imaging 1
#33 Ronald Vern Schauer Applied Materials 1
#33 Mariusch Gregor Applied Materials 1
#33 Guillermo Trejo Omnicell 1

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