Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Arvada, CO ranks #613 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 206 patents from 109 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Arvada, CO include Magpul Industries, Nuvasive, Google. That works out to 1.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 109 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Brian L. Nakayama Magpul Industries 21
2 Norbert Kaula Nuvasive 14
3 Michael Jeffrey Procopio Google 13
#4 Jeffrey N. Steinmetz Bio2 Medical 5
#4 Mark A. Jacober Ball 5
#6 David S. Mohler Avaya 4
#6 Mark Jeffrey Pavol Primestar Solar 4
#6 James Singleton Little Second Sight Medical Products 4
#6 Jeffrey S. Neafsey Schlage Lock Company 4
#6 Melinda Nies Consumerinfo.Com 4
#11 Justin Colwell Cable Television Laboratories 3
#11 Eric D. Golesh Nautilus 3
#11 Daniel J. Schneider Somalogic 3
#11 Robert A. Reeves Unknown 3
#11 Grant D. Miller IBM 3
#11 Joseph Paul Manes Oracle 3
#11 Eric R. Elrod Res Usa 3
#11 Darren Livingston Livingston Systems 3
#11 Robert James Copeland Tda Research 3
#20 Mark G. Atkins IBM 2
#20 Jay Lynch Pearson Education 2
#20 Geneva Ladtkow Covidien Lp 2
#20 Charles William Booten Alliance For Sustainable Energy 2
#20 Darren Loher Level 3 Communications 2
#20 Lawrence Alexander Duarte 2
#20 Dean C. Ellefson Ball 2
#20 Patrick Martin 2
#20 Elijah Wade Atkinson Bio2 Medical 2
#20 John David Stienmier Outset Medical 2
#20 Keith E. Holtzman Halliburton Energy Services 2
#31 Betty E. Shropshire 1
#31 Mara L. Macdonald MIT 1
#31 Karla Call 1
#31 Jillian Hrnicek Cook Medical Technologies 1
#31 Gary Vanzin Lucan Technologies 1
#31 Patrick Kitowski 1
#31 Scott Noland Remediation Products 1
#31 Stevan Wilcox 1
#31 John Joseph Tandler Mbc Ventures 1
#31 Michael Bozeman Arthrocare 1
#31 Matthew C. Beard Alliance For Sustainable Energy 1
#31 Matthew Allen Keyser Alliance For Sustainable Energy 1
#31 Manoja Weiss Covidien Lp 1
#31 Joseph E. Torline Storage Technology 1
#31 Steven E. McGraw Covidien Lp 1
#31 Nicholas Long Alliance For Sustainable Energy 1
#31 Don Powell Micron 1
#31 Nicholas F. Pergola Sophono 1
#31 Christopher D. Hanson Meurer Research 1
#31 Jeff Lind Tda Research 1

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