Colorado — Patent Inventors 2017

Top Cities in Colorado 2017

Rank	City	Patents	Inventors
#1	Boulder, CO	1,222	668
#2	Denver, CO	923	510
#3	Fort Collins, CO	742	399
#4	Longmont, CO	639	338
#5	Colorado Springs, CO	474	299
#6	Littleton, CO	306	180
#7	Broomfield, CO	304	176
#8	Golden, CO	276	159
#9	Lafayette, CO	240	119
#10	Arvada, CO	209	121
#11	Louisville, CO	191	110
#12	Westminster, CO	189	111
#13	Parker, CO	184	99
#14	Englewood, CO	179	81
#15	Highlands Ranch, CO	179	112
#16	Centennial, CO	165	93
#17	Lakewood, CO	158	98
#18	Castle Rock, CO	156	78
#19	Erie, CO	156	87
#20	Superior, CO	150	77
#21	Aurora, CO	146	105
#22	Loveland, CO	146	90
#23	Thornton, CO	125	68
#24	Evergreen, CO	114	51
#25	Lyons, CO	69	34

Rank	Inventor	City	Company	Patents
1	Michael D. Ellis	Boulder	United Video Properties	27
2	Joseph D. Brannan	Lyons	Covidien Lp	26
3	Jawed Asrar	Englewood	Johns Manville	23
#4	Masahiro Watanabe	Windsor	Hitachi	21
#4	Duane E. Kerr	Lafayette	Covidien Lp	21
#4	Christian J. Buffard	Jefferson	Monsanto Technology	21
#7	Norbert Kaula	Arvada	Nuvasive	20
#8	Mark Manning	Johnstown	Coherus Biosciences	18
#9	Michael T. Mayberry	Denver	Magpul Industries	17
#9	William Michael Beals	Englewood	Echostar Technologies L.L.C.	17
#11	Steven J. Simske	Fort Collins	HP	16
#11	Anne R. Sand	Cañon City	IBM	16
#13	Lawrence P. Wennogle	Steamboat Springs	Intra-Cellular Therapies	15
#13	Luke VanDuyn	Conifer	Echostar Technologies L.L.C.	15
#13	David A. Kummer	Highlands Ranch	Echostar Technologies L.L.C.	15
#16	Mani N. Prakash	Boulder	Covidien Lp	14
#16	Brent Buchanan	Fort Collins	Hewlett Packard Enterprise	14
#16	William L. Thomas	Evergreen	Rovi Guides	14
#16	James D. Allen, IV	Broomfield	Covidien Lp	14
#16	Phillip D. Hustad	Longmont	Dow Global Technologies	14
#16	Yutong Jiang	Boulder	Array Biopharma	14
#22	Robert Mark Englekirk	Littleton	Psemi	13
#22	Dariusz Burak	Fort Collins	Avago Technologies General Ip (Singapore) Pte.	13
#22	Robert W. Payne	Fort Collins	Coherus Biosciences	13
#22	Edward Jeffrey Donner	Fort Collins	Jcbd	13