Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Boulder, CO ranks #79 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 1,222 patents from 682 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Boulder, CO include United Video Properties, Reald Spark, Covidien Lp. That works out to 11.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 682 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Michael D. Ellis United Video Properties 38
2 Michael G. Robinson Reald Spark 13
2 Mani N. Prakash Covidien Lp 13
#4 Robert H. Wham Covidien Lp 11
#5 Glenn A. Horner Covidien Lp 10
#6 John O. Louch Apple 9
#6 Robert M. Sharp Covidien Lp 9
#8 Jeffrey L. Jensen Covidien Lp 8
#8 Anthony Catalano Terralux 8
#10 Robert Bruce Bahnsen Intel 7
#10 James S. Cunningham Covidien Lp 7
#10 Michael Dwan Dropbox 7
#10 Ian H. Bernstein Sphero 7
#10 Gary D. Sharp Reald 7
#10 Jennifer Andreoli-Fang Cable Television Laboratories 7
#16 Daniel Lisogurski Covidien Lp 6
#16 Eric Benson Schoeffler Google 6
#16 Gregory Whiting Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated 6
#16 John Latham Intellectual Ventures 6
#16 Eric R. Larson Covidien Lp 6
#16 Lee Becker Avaya 6
#16 Edward M. Chojin Covidien Lp 6
#16 Scott E. M. Frushour Covidien Lp 6
#24 Ian S. Mitchell Array Biopharma 5
#24 John B. Carlucci Time Warner Cable 5
#24 David Ward Ricoh Company 5
#24 Anthony B. Ross Covidien Lp 5
#24 Joey Padden Cable Television Laboratories 5
#24 Keith L. Spencer Array Biopharma 5
#24 Daniel Haarburger Nite Ize 5
#24 Brian Lewis Cairns Google 5
#24 James A. Gilbert Covidien Lp 5
#24 Robert Brett Rose Google 5
#24 Kyle R. Rick Covidien Lp 5
#24 Jeffrey D. Barchers US Air Force 5
#24 Robert L. Sheffield Avago Technologies General Ip (Singapore) Pte. 5
#24 Josef R. Bencsik Array Biopharma 5
#24 Philip T. Mueller, Jr. Qualcomm 5
#24 Jonathan Gillaspie Testplant Europe 5
#24 Ronald J. Podhajsky Covidien Lp 5
#41 Mark Hartmann Outlast Technologies, Gmbh 4
#41 Christopher L. Petersen Lightlab Imaging 4
#41 Peter Douglas Colin Inglis Aircraft Medical Limited 4
#41 Kenneth Kubala Omnivision Technologies 4
#41 Chris Pearson Surna 4
#41 Jeff Storey Level 3 Communications 4
#41 Stephen P. Van Aken Micron 4
#41 Mark A. Johnston Covidien Lp 4
#41 Mark A. Borden Columbia University 4
#41 Gregory M. Adelman Nite Ize 4

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