Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Scotts Valley, CA ranks #835 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 176 patents from 88 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Scotts Valley, CA include Micron, Apple, Pacesetter. That works out to 14.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 88 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Tamara Schmitz Micron 16
2 Graham R. Clarke Apple 9
3 Matthew G. Fishler Pacesetter 7
#4 Robert C. Fox Fox Factory 6
#5 Timothy James Miller Socket Mobile 5
#5 Michael J. Webb Apple 5
#5 Denise Ann Miller Verb Surgical 5
#5 Roger Pantos Apple 5
#9 Jonathan Lochhead Apple 4
#9 Dennis K. Wootten Fox Factory 4
#9 Daniel C. Wagman Apple 4
#12 Marcus Granger-Jones Qorvo Us 3
#12 Rick M. Matty Align Technology 3
#12 Fleming Shi Barracuda Networks 3
#12 Robert Bernardi Plantronics 3
#12 Aaron Grogan Cephea Valve Technologies 3
#17 Gary R. Schultheis Zircon 2
#17 Dave Paul Dao Health 2
#17 Kyle Dembski Becton, Dickinson And 2
#17 Timothy James Henry Edwards Seeing Machines Limited 2
#17 Michael Lyle Purnell Coherent Logix, Incorporated 2
#17 Daniel E. Ryan Agilent Technologies 2
#17 Benjamin Warren Penner Toyota 2
#17 Travis C. Pedley Apple 2
#17 John S. Graham Plantronics 2
#17 Allen Bauer Embarcadero Technologies 2
#17 Stephen T. Miller Zimmer 2
#17 George O'Neal Fox Factory 2
#17 Ben Sutton Dao Health 2
#17 Stephen E. Lim Coherent Logix, Incorporated 2
#17 Avgerinos V. Gelatos Applied Materials 2
#17 Michael Emery Cisco 2
#17 Scott R. Allen Yakima Products 2
#17 Richard W. Schreyer Apple 2
#17 Karl Richard Volk Maxim Integrated Products 2
#36 Michael L. VANDIERENDONCK Jvd 1
#36 Robert S. Wrathall Motorola 1
#36 Michael Kowalski Kla-Tencor 1
#36 Tamara Jean Kuhn 1
#36 Cary Brent Townsend Catbird Networks 1
#36 Robert K. Molholm Apple 1
#36 Casey Peterson Clearone Communications 1
#36 Christopher Lock 1
#36 Kwangsee Allen Woo Plantronics 1
#36 Matthew G. Fishier Pacesetter 1
#36 Ladd T. Johnson Electroglas 1
#36 Jeremiah DOCTER Fox Factory 1
#36 Ryan B. Sills National Technology & Engineering Solutions Of Sandia 1
#36 Daniel VARGHAI Shifamed Holdings 1
#36 Cara Beasley Applied Materials 1

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