Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Gilroy, CA ranks #742 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 194 patents from 91 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Gilroy, CA include Apple, Applied Materials, Amazon. 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 Anton Davydov Apple 12
2 Lara Hawrylchak Applied Materials 9
2 Andrea Olgiati Amazon 9
#4 Christopher B. Fleizach Apple 8
#5 Hamza Yilmaz Alpha And Omega Semiconductor 7
#6 Wendy R. Bergman Yoder Brother 5
#6 Victor Briones Visby Medical 5
#6 Michael S. Cox Applied Materials 5
#9 Scott W. Slabaugh Apple 4
#9 Witold Kula Micron 4
#9 Benjamyn Serna Abbott 4
#9 Steven R. Welch IBM 4
#9 Ganesh Jampani Xage Security 4
#9 Theodore J. Schmidt Juniper Networks 4
#15 Timothy A. Fayram Pacesetter 3
#15 William Johanson Applied Materials 3
#15 Ziyad S. Hakura NVIDIA 3
#15 Pieter J. Kerstens IBM 3
#15 Gavin R. Sills Driscoll Strawberry Associates 3
#15 Mitchell E. Hanes Goldsmith Seeds 3
#15 Ronald Vern Schauer Applied Materials 3
#15 Peter Geoffrey Jones Cisco 3
#23 Bitwoded Okbay IBM 2
#23 Jae C. Schwartz Thermo Finnigan 2
#23 Adhish N. Vyas PayPal 2
#23 Bruce McNutt IBM 2
#23 Mark Montanez Cisco 2
#23 Scott Bura Alza 2
#23 Jeffrey Andresen Nanotronics Imaging 2
#23 Omar Alonso Macy Real Action Paintball, Inc (Rap4) 2
#23 Richard S. Ginn Integrated Vascular Systems 2
#23 Matthew DiPietro Roche Sequencing Solutions 2
#23 Anthony D. Minervini Knowles Electronics 2
#23 John Carr Paramount Packaging 2
#23 Renaud-Roland Hubert Google 2
#23 Hai VO National Semiconductor 2
#23 John H. Mylius Apple 2
#23 Pranay Ega Nutanix 2
#23 Richard J. Nathan Jonetix 2
#40 James Eugene Foster PayPal 1
#40 Luca Grella 1
#40 Simon Malkevich Relign 1
#40 Ramon A. Caamano Great Stuff 1
#40 Andrew William O'Sullivan Asyst Technologies L.L.C. 1
#40 Shay Assaf Applied Materials 1
#40 Roger R. Labbe Sportsmedia Technology 1
#40 Gregory M. Amico Applied Materials 1
#40 Macarena Parra 1
#40 Landon Ritchie 1
#40 Michael S. Bower 1

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