Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Arvada, CO ranks #642 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 209 patents from 121 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Arvada, CO include Nuvasive, Magpul Industries, Second Sight Medical Products. That works out to 1.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 121 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Norbert Kaula Nuvasive 20
2 Brian L. Nakayama Magpul Industries 6
3 James Singleton Little Second Sight Medical Products 5
3 Grant D. Miller IBM 5
#5 David S. Mohler Avaya 4
#5 Michael Jeffrey Procopio Google 4
#5 Christopher J. Sorensen Abl Ip Holding 4
#5 Joshua A. Schaidle Alliance For Sustainable Energy 4
#9 Wilfred Jaime Miles 3
#9 Jesse Hensley Alliance For Sustainable Energy 3
#9 Jeffrey N. Steinmetz Bio2 Medical 3
#9 Brett James Pardikes Amsa 3
#9 Mark Sinclair Graphic Packaging International 3
#9 Brian Seegmiller Coorstek 3
#9 Mark A. Jacober Ball 3
#9 Michael Mooney Professional Disposables International 3
#9 Janine Fornarola Global Healthcare Exchange 3
#9 Donald Stark Google 3
#9 Robert James Copeland Tda Research 3
#9 Joseph Paul Manes Oracle 3
#21 Steven C. Rupp Covidien Lp 2
#21 Alan Chu Apple 2
#21 Ronald James Kadlec Rodime Plc 2
#21 Braddon M. Van Slyke Covidien Lp 2
#21 C. Ross Cohlmia Pathfinder Systems 2
#21 Darren Loher Level 3 Communications 2
#21 Nicholas F. Pergola Sophono 2
#21 Thomas G. DiLorenzo Terumo Bct 2
#21 John A. Hammerland, III Covidien Lp 2
#21 Robert Klepper Range Fuels 2
#21 David Benjamin Jaroch Trisalus Life Sciences 2
#21 Weston R. Wilson Graphic Packaging International 2
#21 Justin Colwell Cable Television Laboratories 2
#21 Eric D. Golesh Nautilus 2
#21 Prakash Manley Covidien Lp 2
#21 Anthony William Pankratz Micro Motion 2
#21 Christopher Sayer Level 3 Communications 2
#21 Geneva Ladtkow Covidien Lp 2
#21 Marc E. Voorhees Medivance Incorporated 2
#21 Peter March Atlas Material Testing Technology Gmbh 2
#41 Seth S. Margolis Harvard University 1
#41 Steven M. Rdzak Level 3 Communications 1
#41 Nikhil Parikh 1
#41 Darren Livingston Livingston Systems 1
#41 Robin M. Stewart Ada-Es 1
#41 Jeffrey S. Neafsey Schlage Lock Company 1
#41 Benjamin Zamora Accurence 1
#41 Michael W. Calahan Integrated Packaging Solutions 1
#41 Craig V. Krastins Covidien Lp 1
#41 Eric Wood Asm America 1

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