Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Felton, CA ranks #2,457 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,263 patents from 158 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Felton, CA include Google, Covidien Lp, Shifamed Holdings. That works out to 281.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 158 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Manuel Christian Clement Google 132
2 Brian B. Martin Covidien Lp 81
3 Claudio Argento Shifamed Holdings 79
#4 Kerry Veenstra Intel 76
#5 Scott Michael Graves Archer Aviation 43
#6 Daniel F. Smith IBM 39
#7 Stephen James Franck 36
#8 Paco Flores Seagate Technology 35
#9 David M. Kindlon Apple 33
#10 Stephen V. Cahill Motorola 30
#11 Erik P. Staats Apple 28
#12 Jan Vilhuber Cisco 24
#13 Mark A. Boys Sound Starts 23
#14 Steve Pearson Sumitomo Electric Industries 19
#15 Walter W. Butler Western Digital Technologies 18
#16 Paul Regen Ennova Direct 17
#16 M. Rinley Deeds Johnsondiversey 17
#18 Lawrence W. Gollbach Plantronics 16
#19 David Harwood McMurtry Fibralign 15
#19 David T. Debus Specialized Bicycle Components 15
#21 Mark Adrian Stubbs Echelon 14
#21 Russell C. Ellwanger Applied Materials 14
#21 Victor Steel Rf Micro Devices 14
#21 Hilgard N. Muller Bell Sports 14
#25 Douglas H. Jones University Of Iowa 12
#26 Mark S. Seymour Western Digital Technologies 11
#26 Stephen John Joseph Fricke Synopsys 11
#26 Michael H. Brewer American Dental Laser 11
#29 Noah A. Wilson University of California 10
#29 Brian R. Drell Apple 10
#29 Anthony P. Casano Razer (Asia-Pacific) Pte. 10
#29 Sabrina Quinn Shemet Samsara 10
#29 Peter Heureux Reflectivity 10
#34 Brian J. Wismann Zero Motorcycles 9
#34 Christine Burris Acs Communications 9
#34 Brian Parkison Netapp 9
#34 Christopher R. Kilgus Contego Medical 9
#34 David Skuratowicz Verizon 9
#39 Lawrence D. Bartholomew Silicon Valley Group, Thermal Systems Llp 8
#39 Christopher P. Lutz IBM 8
#39 John C. Lindsley Paccar 8
#39 Joachim Deguara Fraunhofer 8
#43 Jonathan Perron Apple 7
#43 Steven P. Reed Brown & Williamson Tobacco 7
#43 Wayne D. Inman Insmed Incorporated 7
#46 Kenneth Allen Western Digital Technologies 6
#46 Daniel R. English Eastman Kodak 6
#46 Norman Marchand Aerovirus Technologies 6
#46 Peter Heureux Texas Instruments 6
#46 Carl Lebsack Google 6

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