Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Grass Valley, CA ranks #2,078 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,535 patents from 334 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Grass Valley, CA include AMD, Infinium Technology, Impulse Devices. That works out to 109.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 334 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Shane Hollmer AMD 91
2 Dennis Schuetzle Infinium Technology 51
3 Ross Tessien Impulse Devices 50
#4 Robert L. Miller Unknown 40
#5 Gabriel Molina Pelican Imaging 39
#5 Richard Adams Silicon Turbine Systems 39
#7 Betsy Swann Conceptus 35
#8 Kurt F. Raihn Resonant 33
#9 Robert B. DeMatteis Bob Dematteis 31
#10 James A. Michener Directv 25
#10 Theodore Yednock Elan Pharmaceuticals 25
#12 Scott Davis Motorola 24
#12 Larry S. Thomson L-3 Communications 24
#14 Jonathan Kennedy Inv Nylon Chemicals Americas 19
#15 Steven Coonen Clearvue Technologies 18
#15 Stephen E. Thomas Hrl Laboratories 18
#15 Matthew Todd Lawson Cisco 18
#18 Kevin D. Windrem Grass Valley (U.S.) 17
#19 Jack L. Evans 3M 15
#19 Timothy Johnston Finesse Solutions 15
#19 Todd Kaplan Hrl Laboratories 15
#22 James R. Costa Murata Manufacturing Co. 14
#22 Stephen R. Wurzburger 14
#22 Richard M. Myers Dialog Semiconductor 14
#25 Lawrence D. Emmons Luma Telecom Incorporated 13
#25 Christopher R. Hansen Metanoia Technologies 13
#25 Jeffrey Prince D4D Technologies 13
#28 Michael J. Henderson 2Wire 12
#28 David Sahuc Gvbb Holdings S.A.R.L 12
#28 Ronald E. Milner Atari 12
#28 Douglas B. Crice Wireless Seismic 12
#28 John McCormick Church Of Spiritual Technology 12
#33 Alisa Sandoval HP 11
#33 James W. Everitt Level One Communications 11
#33 Ralph Andersson Level One Communications 11
#33 Dan C. Mower Intermotive 11
#33 Paul O'Connor Tellabs Petaluma 11
#38 Kevin J. Shuholm Nvision 10
#38 Donald Johnson Childers Gvbb Holdings S.A.R.L 10
#38 Dawn Simmons 10
#38 James Schuessler Samsung 10
#38 Ralph Andrew Silberstein Gvbb Holdings S.A.R.L 10
#38 Alvin L. Long Unknown 10
#44 Richard S. Bannister Grass Valley Limited 9
#44 James A. Delwiche Apple 9
#44 Sebastian Rapport Opentv 9
#44 Robert Villwock Mobius Technologies 9
#48 David G. Wood Comalco Aluminum Limited 8
#48 Amit Vohra Promaxo 8
#50 Paul Michael Musser Mastercard 7

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