Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Boulder, CO ranks #86 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 1,211 patents from 670 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Boulder, CO include United Video Properties, Covidien Lp, Array Biopharma. That works out to 11.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 670 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Michael D. Ellis United Video Properties 24
2 Mani N. Prakash Covidien Lp 12
3 Yutong Jiang Array Biopharma 11
3 Julia Haas Array Biopharma 11
3 Anthony B. Ross Covidien Lp 11
#6 Michael G. Robinson Reald Spark 10
#6 Steven W. Andrews Array Biopharma 10
#8 James A. Gilbert Covidien Lp 9
#8 Daniel Haarburger Nite Ize 9
#8 Gabrielle R. Kolakowski Array Biopharma 9
#8 Jennifer Andreoli-Fang Cable Television Laboratories 9
#12 Kyle R. Rick Covidien Lp 8
#12 Glenn A. Horner Covidien Lp 8
#12 Eric R. Larson Covidien Lp 8
#15 Jonathan Carroll Open Text Sa Ulc 7
#15 David B. Barnett Popsockets 7
#15 Darrell Eugene Bellert Konica Minolta Laboratory U.S.A. 7
#15 Gary D. Sharp Reald 7
#15 William Pachoud Zonit Structured Solutions 7
#20 John J. Kappus Covidien Lp 6
#20 David J. Van Tol Covidien Lp 6
#20 Ashish Kumar Stmicroelectronics International N.V. 6
#20 Jonas Grina Peloton Therapeutics 6
#20 Gregory Whiting Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated 6
#20 Gregory James Hampson Woodward 6
#20 Barbara J. Brandhuber Array Biopharma 6
#20 Eric Carlson Symyx Technologies 6
#20 Stephen T. Schlachter Array Biopharma 6
#20 John O. Louch Apple 6
#30 John B. Carlucci Time Warner Cable 5
#30 Ivor Michel Walter Amsa 5
#30 Douglas A. Standley N.Io Innovation 5
#30 Mark Kreitler Sphero 5
#30 Alexander M. Waskiewicz Covidien Lp 5
#30 Tony P. Tang Array Biopharma 5
#30 Robert H. Wham Covidien Lp 5
#30 Cassandra Brubaker Sphero 5
#30 Eric Dennis Klumper Rcm Enterprise L.L.C. 5
#30 Molly M. Hobbs Popsockets 5
#30 James S. Cunningham Covidien Lp 5
#30 Jason T. Sanders Covidien Lp 5
#30 John Latham Intellectual Ventures 5
#43 Jerritt Hansell Astrolink International 4
#43 Robert M. Sharp Covidien Lp 4
#43 Paul Jensen Amsa 4
#43 Michael A. Artinger Intel 4
#43 David N. Heard Covidien Lp 4
#43 Craig A. Keller Covidien Lp 4
#43 William Gray Level 3 Communications 4
#43 Gregory E. Johnson Omnivision Technologies 4

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