Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Soquel, CA ranks #2,028 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,582 patents from 187 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Soquel, CA include Applied Materials, Fallbrook Technologies, Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated. That works out to 158.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 187 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Steven M. Zuniga Applied Materials 177
2 David J. Allen Fallbrook Technologies 99
3 Richard H. Bruce Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated 62
#4 Richard G. Stearns Labcyte 60
#5 Elliot Kremerman 53
#6 Isaac S. Noble Amazon 48
#7 Ralf Hofmann Applied Materials 46
#8 Fathy Yassa GE 39
#9 Wolfgang Meier Basf Se 28
#9 David Edmonston Bloom Energy 28
#11 Eric Swenson Intertrust Technologies 27
#12 Joseph Whinnery Valeo Electrical Systems 26
#13 Scott A. Young Kla-Tencor 24
#14 Peter Raymond Fransen Adobe 22
#15 Scott Michael Le Grand NVIDIA 21
#16 Ronald A. Meck Tropian 20
#17 Michael Boyd Weatherford Technology Holdings 19
#17 Daniel S. Venolia Apple 19
#19 Eamon Briggs Bell Sports 18
#19 Niel D. Warren Apple 18
#21 Joseph F. Walsh E-Comm Incorporated 17
#21 Robert J. Stewart Yardarm Technologies 17
#23 Michael J. Musal Bell Sports 16
#23 Martin L. Hess Ebay 16
#25 Dirk Wodtke Sap Ag 15
#25 Richard Hausman Cisco 15
#27 Clifton Williamson Seagate Technology 14
#27 Matthew Vincent Costello Apple 14
#27 L. Noah Flores Xerox 14
#27 Paul A. Kele Bell Sports 14
#31 Kenneth D. Pedrotti Rockwell Science Center 13
#31 Stephan G. Betz Amazon 13
#31 Floyd William Brady Salamander Graphix 13
#31 Barry J. Kauker Stryker 13
#31 David R. Pirkle Lam Research 13
#31 John C. Knights Xerox 13
#31 Jeff Nordahl 13
#38 Brian D. Erickson AMD 12
#38 Darrell Long IBM 12
#38 Tyson L. Webster Diversey 12
#38 Jeremy Jacob D'Ambrosio Plantronics 12
#42 Daniel P. Saraliev Intuitive Surgical 11
#43 Henry A. Davis Micron 10
#43 Conrad Herrmann Check Point Software Technologies 10
#43 Eric I. Gruenberg Apple 10
#43 Winthrop L. Saville Google 10
#43 John Fredrick Stephani Howmedica Osteonics 10
#43 Howard W. Stolz Oracle 10
#43 Chris Murray Sutro Biopharma 10
#43 Chris Koverman Broadsoft Casabi 10

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