Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Centennial, CO ranks #820 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 165 patents from 93 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Centennial, CO include Dish Network L.L.C., Mydor, Samsung. That works out to 1.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 93 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Nicholas Newell Dish Network L.L.C. 9
2 Margo Taylor-Bredesen Mydor 7
2 Jae Sang Lee Samsung 7
#4 Christopher M. Macheca Gordon*Howard Associates 6
#4 Zhihua Guo Johns Manville 6
#6 Gregory D. Van de Mark Green Ox Pallet Technology 5
#7 Adam M. Litwinski Schlage Lock Company 4
#7 Matthew Bradley Stokes Halliburton Energy Services 4
#7 Joshua Daniel Herbeck Green Ox Pallet Technology 4
#7 Wilfred I. Tucker T-Mobile Usa 4
#11 Wayne J. Powell Colorado Energy Research Technologies 3
#11 Salman Mohagheghi Abb Research 3
#11 Chad T. Wells Ppc Broadband 3
#11 Jeffrey W. Stansbury University of Colorado 3
#11 Michael John Block Johns Manville 3
#16 Joseph V. Ranalletta Baxter Corporation Englewood 2
#16 Jim Hall Comcast 2
#16 Robert L. Senter Unknown 2
#16 Claudia M. Combellas Level 3 Communications 2
#16 Daniel C. Venard Kärcher North America 2
#16 Wayne Turnbow Clean Emissions Technologies 2
#16 Christopher Bartlett Papineau Oracle 2
#16 Mehul Patel Comcast 2
#16 Robert D. Boehmer Colorado Energy Research Technologies 2
#16 David B. Leach Comcast 2
#16 Michael Perri ExxonMobil 2
#16 Keith Zaring 2
#16 John A. Martin Pentech 2
#16 Arlen K. Ward Covidien Lp 2
#16 Alexander Hois Quantum 2
#16 Robert Bartek Kior 2
#32 John Grant GE 1
#32 Christopher Joseph Long Cochlear Limited 1
#32 Michael J. Lastowski Patco 1
#32 Roderick Brian Averill Avaya 1
#32 Jeffrey A. Fry New Tech Machinery 1
#32 Lucas Kumosa Biological Dynamics 1
#32 Mark Torluemke Comcast 1
#32 Richard F Gustin, Jr. Johns Manville 1
#32 Mark Massman Skydex Technologies 1
#32 Jacob M. Anderson Pearson Education 1
#32 Nobuhisa Yoda Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 1
#32 Phil Worack Tls 1
#32 Nathan Falkner 1
#32 Jeff S. Jordan 1
#32 Scott Gene Buss Oracle 1
#32 Robert E. Matuszewski Unknown 1
#32 Harley A. Borders American Air Liquide 1
#32 Glen Mitchell Kniffin Chevron 1
#32 Brian Buege 1

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