Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Scotts Valley, CA ranks #837 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 4,010 patents from 513 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Scotts Valley, CA include Tela Innovations, Qorvo Us, Apple. That works out to 328.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 513 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Scott T. Becker Tela Innovations 227
2 Marcus Granger-Jones Qorvo Us 133
3 Graham R. Clarke Apple 110
#4 Tamara Schmitz Micron 88
#5 Robert C. Fox Fox Factory 77
#6 Avgerinos V. Gelatos Applied Materials 71
#7 Roger Pantos Apple 58
#8 Matthew G. Fishler Pacesetter 57
#9 Jonathan Lochhead Apple 56
#9 Gerald L. Dybsetter Finisar 56
#9 Reza Arghavani Intel 56
#12 Scott R. Allen Yakima Products 52
#13 Sasan Cyrusian Disney 51
#14 Norbert Steven Parsoneault Seagate Technology 50
#15 Daniel C. Wagman Apple 48
#16 Dennis K. Wootten Fox Factory 45
#17 Richard A. Landsman Aol 42
#18 Michael J. Webb Apple 41
#18 Robert S. Wrathall Motorola 41
#20 John B. Ledingham Whirlpool 38
#21 Timothy James Miller Socket Mobile 32
#22 James Donald Reno Ca 30
#22 Denise Ann Miller Verb Surgical 30
#24 Rick M. Matty Align Technology 29
#25 Lorin Olson Lifescan 28
#26 Benjamin Warren Penner Toyota 27
#26 George D. Kamian Novellus Systems 27
#26 Rodney Limprecht Microsoft 27
#26 Robbert C. Van der Linden IBM 27
#30 Sanjoy Ghose Seagate Technology 26
#30 Seth Keith Citrix Systems 26
#32 Richard W. Schreyer Apple 25
#32 Robert Bernardi Plantronics 25
#34 John Muth Broadcom 24
#34 Joseph Pernyeszi General Electronics Applications 24
#36 Brian H. Johnston Somagenics 23
#37 Vaughn T. Arnold Apple 22
#37 Shaunak Mistry Citrix Systems 22
#39 Scott McGrath Invensas 21
#40 Fleming Shi Barracuda Networks 20
#40 Cara Beasley Applied Materials 20
#40 Casey Peterson Clearone Communications 20
#43 Stephen T. Miller Zimmer 19
#43 Marc D. Hartranft Cypress Semiconductor 19
#43 Matthias Knoth Mips Technologies 19
#46 Simon J. S. McElrea Invensas 18
#46 Timothy James Henry Edwards Seeing Machines Limited 18
#48 Robert D. Patrie AMD 17
#48 Kenneth Eric Vasilik Google 17
#48 Michael Hemmert Soasta 17

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