Top Inventors in Watsonville, CA

Watsonville, CA ranks #2,227 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,422 patents from 232 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Watsonville, CA include Plant Sciences, Qualcomm, Goldsmith Seeds. That works out to 27.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 232 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Michael D. Nelson	Plant Sciences	76
2	Steven D. Nelson	Plant Sciences	73
3	Enrique Ayala Vazquez	—	60
#4	Guido Robert Frederiks	Qualcomm	57
#5	Robert Pierce	Goldsmith Seeds	53
#6	Vincent S. Hernandez	Anacor Pharmaceuticals	37
#7	Amado Q. Amorao	Driscoll Strawberry Associates	30
#8	Gregor Magnusson	—	29
#9	John Larse	Sweet Darling Sales	27
#10	F. Robert Egger	Specialized Bicycle Components	26
#11	James D. Rancourt	Optical Coating Laboratory	25
#11	Juan Alvarez	Alkermes	25
#13	Gary E. Johnson	Paper Converting Machine	24
#13	Scott W. Adams	Plant Sciences	24
#15	Jennifer K. Izzo	Driscoll'S	23
#16	Juan Zavala	Apple	21
#16	Albert C. Ting	AbbVie	21
#18	Richard E. Harrison	Driscoll Strawberry Associates	20
#19	Wesley R. Clark	Seagate Technology	19
#20	Jay Hurley	Amazon	18
#20	Rebecca Connolly	Sureharvest	18
#20	Joseph I. Espejo, Jr.	Driscoll Strawberry Associates	18
#23	Jeffrey W. Dlott	Sureharvest	17
#24	Daljeet Singh	IBM	16
#24	Mark Sambrailo	Sambrailo Packaging	16
#24	Harold A. Johnson, Jr.	Driscoll Strawberry Associates	16
#27	Robert David Kaswen	Fox Factory	15
#28	William K. Sambrailo	Sambrailo Packaging	14
#28	Michael Alan Morris	Sola International Holdings	14
#28	Katsuhiro Okamura	Juniper Networks	14
#31	Eduardo Lopez Camacho	Apple	13
#32	Enrique Ayala	Apple	12
#32	Ellen Thompson	Pacific Berry Breeding	12
#32	Enrique Ayala Vazquez	Apple	12
#35	Larry T. Kodama	Driscoll Strawberry Associates	11
#35	Raymond L. Jacobs, III	Driscoll'S	11
#37	Bruno L. Imazio	Bay City Flower	10
#37	Scott Pozzi-Loyola	Nanotronics Imaging	10
#39	M. Nevin Smith	Cp Delaware	9
#39	Joshua Patterson	Calera	9
#39	Mon Spencer Owyang	—	9
#39	Kean P. Hurley	Broadcom	9
#39	Paul Cox	Fox Factory	9
#39	Jason Ashton	—	9
#45	Luis Miguel Rodriguez	Driscoll'S	8
#45	Leon Ventura	Dole Food Company	8
#45	Mark Rowe	Medtronic	8
#48	Omar Carrillo Mendoza	Driscoll'S	7
#48	Craig Calfee	—	7
#50	James Nagamine	The Bowden Group	6

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