Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Winters, CA ranks #6,730 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 358 patents from 42 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Winters, CA include Automatic Bar Controls, Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Intel. That works out to 50.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–42 of 42 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Thomas R. Hecht Automatic Bar Controls 90
2 Chad Kramer Seminis Vegetable Seeds 63
3 Alan B. Kyker Intel 42
#4 John Tyson, II AT&T 24
#5 Eugene M. Breznock Indian Wells Medical 23
#6 Cory Panattoni Bio-Rad Laboratories 18
#7 Barbara Cherry Novozymes 16
#8 Malcolm L. Bond Cedaron Medical 12
#9 Joseph O. DeAngelo Kulicke And Soffa Industries 8
#10 Edward G. Jones 7
#11 Carol D. Basey Genentech 6
#12 Kevin McPhillips 4
#12 David E. Brune Clemson University 4
#14 Yoder T. Wendy Novo Nordisk Biotech 3
#14 Stephen E. Wilce 3
#14 Lloyd Ramsey Masco 3
#14 Kevin Lee Jackson Frontier Wind, Llc. 3
#18 Dwight L. Howard University of California 2
#18 John Chulick 2
#18 Richard W. Ermel University of California 2
#18 Austin C. Goheen University of California 2
#22 Sharon J. Spier University Of Pittsburgh 1
#22 Christopher Allan Mariani 1
#22 William Nylander 1
#22 Melanie M. Cottone-Nylander 1
#22 Heather A. Lindfors Monsanto Technology 1
#22 Natasha Panattoni Bio-Rad Laboratories 1
#22 Summer Merie Ragosta 1
#22 Eric Daniel Kvilhaug Sunrise Mfg 1
#22 Charles J. York 1
#22 Jonathan Mazer Bayer Healthcare 1
#22 Susan Kristensen Unknown 1
#22 Theodore Thomas Gansberger 1
#22 David G. Gilchrist University of California 1
#22 Marvin Goodrow University of California 1
#22 Rorik Theron Olson 1
#22 Demetrius Garnett 1
#22 Niels D. Pedersen University of California 1
#22 Blake Jessen 1
#22 Frederick H. Hemenway 1
#22 Neils C. Pedersen University of California 1
#22 John C. Longhurst University of California 1

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