Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Soquel, CA ranks #2,121 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 62 patents from 27 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Soquel, CA include Plantronics, Bell Sports, Bloom Energy. That works out to 6.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–27 of 27 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Elliot Kremerman 15
2 Jeff Nordahl 6
3 Jeremy Jacob D'Ambrosio Plantronics 5
#4 Eamon Briggs Bell Sports 3
#4 David Edmonston Bloom Energy 3
#6 Richard G. Stearns Labcyte 2
#6 Paul A. Kele Bell Sports 2
#6 Peter Raymond Fransen Adobe 2
#6 John C. Knights Xerox 2
#6 Niel D. Warren Apple 2
#6 Richard Hausman Cisco 2
#6 Joseph F. Walsh E-Comm Incorporated 2
#6 David J. Allen Fallbrook Technologies 2
#14 Steven M. Zuniga Applied Materials 1
#14 John Fredrick Stephani Howmedica Osteonics 1
#14 Florence Ann Morhauser 1
#14 Martin L. Hess Ebay 1
#14 Dirk Wodtke Sap Ag 1
#14 Dirk Seynhaeve Intel 1
#14 Masao Yokota Daihen 1
#14 Michael Boyd Weatherford Technology Holdings 1
#14 Scott Michael Le Grand NVIDIA 1
#14 Michael J. Musal Bell Sports 1
#14 Robert J. Stewart Yardarm Technologies 1
#14 Thomas Chris Newcomb Google 1
#14 Ian Storms Moody Cam 1
#14 Brian W. Eisman Bell Sports 1

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