Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Soquel, CA ranks #1,998 worldwide for total patents filed in 2023, with 62 patents from 31 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Soquel, CA include Applied Materials, Apple, Ford. That works out to 6.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–31 of 31 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Steven M. Zuniga Applied Materials 13
2 Matthew Vincent Costello Apple 5
3 Otis Allen Ford 4
#4 David Edmonston Bloom Energy 3
#4 Paul A. Kele Bell Sports 3
#6 Joseph Whinnery Valeo Electrical Systems 2
#6 Peter Raymond Fransen Adobe 2
#6 Darrin Caddes Plantronics 2
#6 Richard G. Stearns Labcyte 2
#6 Scott A. Young Kla-Tencor 2
#6 Eamon Briggs Bell Sports 2
#6 David J. Allen Fallbrook Technologies 2
#6 Eric Casten Riepling Roku 2
#14 Jeremy Jacob D'Ambrosio Plantronics 1
#14 Darrell Long IBM 1
#14 Steven M. Zungia Applied Materials 1
#14 Grant Griffard Polytec Gmbh 1
#14 Michael J. Musal Bell Sports 1
#14 Robert J. Stewart Yardarm Technologies 1
#14 Daniel P. Saraliev Intuitive Surgical 1
#14 Steven S. Noble Apple 1
#14 Henry A. Davis Micron 1
#14 Eric Swenson Intertrust Technologies 1
#14 Jeff Nordahl 1
#14 William Nehrer Texas Instruments 1
#14 Leon Eckhardt Bgi Shenzhen 1
#14 Michael Boyd Weatherford Technology Holdings 1
#14 Graham A. DRACUP 1
#14 Kenneth D. Pedrotti Rockwell Science Center 1
#14 Conrad Herrmann Check Point Software Technologies 1
#14 Chris Murray Sutro Biopharma 1

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