Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Capitola, CA ranks #1,133 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 2,959 patents from 457 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Capitola, CA include Silicon Genesis, Micron, Seagate Technology. That works out to 297.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 457 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Francois J. Henley Silicon Genesis 151
2 Fred Fishburn Micron 76
3 Alan Lyndon Grantz Seagate Technology 71
#4 Albert W. Wegener Samplify Systems 60
#5 Mark Zimmer Apple 59
#6 Ron Hadar Tigo Energy 56
#7 Carlos D. Fear Driscoll Strawberry Associates 52
#8 Michael McAndrews Specialized Bicycle Components 50
#9 Matthias Rath Unknown 49
#9 Joe Smyth Headway Technologies 49
#11 Michael A. Desjardin Intarcia Therapeutics 42
#12 Stephen E. Dey Apple 41
#13 Carl Woods Lam Research 40
#14 James Paul Rivers Cisco 39
#14 Aleksandra Niedzwiecki Unknown 39
#16 John B. Baker Expoimaging 32
#16 Gabriele Zingaretti Restoration Robotics 32
#18 Albert T. Borchers Google 31
#19 Donald J. MacLeod Seagate Technology 30
#19 Jeffry Arnold LeBlanc Seagate Technology 30
#21 David P. Chengson Juniper Networks 29
#22 David Sierra Forsight Vision5 27
#22 Matthias D. Vitten Driscoll'S 27
#24 Charles Donald Deets, Jr. Meta 25
#24 Ericka Bermudez Pioneer (Corteva) 25
#24 Anoop Menon Amazon 25
#27 Greg Johnson Rangestar Wireless 23
#28 Peter Pearson Trutag Technologies 22
#28 John Dwayne Walther The Procter & Gamble 22
#28 Anthony D. Williams AMD 22
#31 Bruce Foster Bishop Tyco Electronics Co. 21
#31 Marcos R. Vescovi Apple 21
#33 Jacques Bertrand AMD 20
#33 Yoshihide Senzaki Air Products And Chemicals 20
#35 Kirk Alan Martin Rkd Engineering 19
#35 John L. Guenther HP 19
#37 Clarence EMMONS Microcube 18
#38 Drew B. Lawson IBM 17
#38 Gregory I. Rudd Seagate Technology 17
#40 William J. Colfer Plant Sciences 16
#40 David Howland Delaware Capital Formation 16
#40 Daniel O'Loughlin Certicom 16
#40 Travis D. Wilbur View 16
#40 Raphael Hebert Kopin 16
#40 Josh H. Golden Applied Materials 16
#46 Brian Lampman Fox Factory 15
#46 Carlo Catalano Apple 15
#46 Peter Garrett Ennova Direct 15
#49 Jeromy William Henry Google 14
#49 John Bandhauer Aol 14

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