Top Inventors in Gilroy, CA | Patent Leaderboard

Gilroy, CA ranks #647 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 5,189 patents from 527 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Gilroy, CA include Yoder Brother, Alpha And Omega Semiconductor, Goldsmith Seeds. That works out to 87.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 527 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Wendy R. Bergman	Yoder Brother	313
2	Hamza Yilmaz	Alpha And Omega Semiconductor	266
3	Mitchell E. Hanes	Goldsmith Seeds	212
#4	Richard S. Ginn	Integrated Vascular Systems	159
#5	Reiner Kraft	IBM	115
#6	Anton Davydov	Apple	109
#7	Witold Kula	Micron	101
#8	William Daniel Willey	Research In Motion Limited	99
#9	Christopher B. Fleizach	Apple	94
#10	Ziyad S. Hakura	NVIDIA	88
#11	Anthony D. Minervini	Knowles Electronics	81
#12	Darlene Hamilton	AMD	69
#13	Michael S. Cox	Applied Materials	68
#14	Curt L. Cotner	IBM	65
#15	Lara Hawrylchak	Applied Materials	62
#16	Shifeng Pan	Irm	61
#17	Timothy A. Fayram	Pacesetter	54
#18	Bruce McNutt	IBM	50
#19	Andrea Olgiati	Amazon	49
#19	James A. W. Shoemaker	Rennovia	49
#19	Jae C. Schwartz	Thermo Finnigan	49
#22	Theodore J. Schmidt	Juniper Networks	47
#23	Gavin R. Sills	Driscoll Strawberry Associates	45
#24	Bum Ki Moon	Infineon Technologies Ag	44
#25	Karl Kissa	Jds Uniphase	42
#26	David J. Lima	Juniper Networks	39
#27	Renaud-Roland Hubert	Google	38
#28	Pieter J. Kerstens	IBM	35
#29	Kong-Chen Chen	Wintec Industries	34
#29	David Margulies	HGST	34
#29	Ronald Vern Schauer	Applied Materials	34
#32	Benjamyn Serna	Abbott	33
#32	Roger William Wood	Hgst Netherlands, B.V.	33
#32	Scott Mullins	Apple	33
#35	James W. Pickel	IBM	32
#36	C. Kwai Kong	Bell Automotive Products	29
#36	Peter Geoffrey Jones	Cisco	29
#36	John H. Mylius	Apple	29
#39	Martin A. Hilkene	Applied Materials	28
#39	Ramon A. Caamano	Great Stuff	28
#41	Torleif Ove Bjornson	Aclara Biosciences	27
#41	David E. Weldon	Aplex	27
#41	Manat Maolinbay	Aixscan	27
#41	Albert J. Guerini	Syquest Technology	27
#45	Steven R. Welch	IBM	26
#45	Glen T. Mori	Applied Materials	26
#45	Omar Alonso Macy	Real Action Paintball, Inc (Rap4)	26
#45	Peter R. Harper	Freeescale Semiconductor	26
#49	William Johanson	Applied Materials	25
#50	Mariusch Gregor	Applied Materials	24

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