Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Gilroy, CA ranks #675 worldwide for total patents filed in 2023, with 207 patents from 94 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Gilroy, CA include Yoder Brother, Google, Aixscan. That works out to 3.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 94 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Wendy R. Bergman Yoder Brother 14
2 Renaud-Roland Hubert Google 9
2 Manat Maolinbay Aixscan 9
#4 Anton Davydov Apple 8
#5 Pieter J. Kerstens IBM 7
#5 Christopher B. Fleizach Apple 7
#7 Hamza Yilmaz Alpha And Omega Semiconductor 6
#7 Mitchell E. Hanes Goldsmith Seeds 6
#7 Steven R. Welch IBM 6
#7 Blake Erickson Applied Materials 6
#11 Adhish N. Vyas PayPal 5
#12 Kong-Chen Chen Wintec Industries 4
#12 Peter Geoffrey Jones Cisco 4
#14 Mikhail DOLGANOV Lumentum Operations 3
#14 Scott W. Slabaugh Apple 3
#14 Mariusch Gregor Applied Materials 3
#14 Richard S. Ginn Integrated Vascular Systems 3
#14 Byron J. Reynolds Zoll Circulation 3
#14 Mummoorthy Murugesan Normalyze 3
#14 Daniel Liddle 3
#21 Martin A. Hilkene Applied Materials 2
#21 Luca Grella 2
#21 Simon Malkevich Relign 2
#21 Todd Alan Broch Google 2
#21 Hector Ivan Oporta Qualcomm 2
#21 Richard J. Nathan Jonetix 2
#21 Shay Assaf Applied Materials 2
#21 Matthew James Armstrong Nutanix 2
#21 Joshua D. Deetz Carbon 2
#21 Theodore J. Schmidt Juniper Networks 2
#21 William Louis Patzoldt Blue River Technology 2
#21 Abdullah Reza Rubrik 2
#21 Steven Elliott Curd Scaeva Technologies 2
#21 Cuong Le Bolb 2
#21 Andrea Olgiati Amazon 2
#21 Jeffrey Andresen Nanotronics Imaging 2
#21 Gavin R. Sills Driscoll Strawberry Associates 2
#21 Matthew DiPietro Roche Sequencing Solutions 2
#21 Venkata R. Balagani Applied Materials 2
#21 Jae C. Schwartz Thermo Finnigan 2
#21 Lara Hawrylchak Applied Materials 2
#42 Paul Kunst Rybak Chart 1
#42 Majid Mehrpouyan Becton, Dickinson And 1
#42 Jakob D. SWANK Apple 1
#42 Hoai Vu Thanh Tran Fungible 1
#42 Carlos Garcia-Alvarado Pivotal Software 1
#42 Benixon Arul Dhas Samsung 1
#42 Eric W. Ewald Google 1
#42 Shifeng Pan Irm 1
#42 Gregory Michael Schnorr Cisco 1

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