Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Centennial, CO ranks #936 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 144 patents from 94 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Centennial, CO include Ppc Broadband, Dish Network L.L.C., Johns Manville. That works out to 1.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 94 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Chad T. Wells Ppc Broadband 7
2 Nicholas Newell Dish Network L.L.C. 5
2 Zhihua Guo Johns Manville 5
#4 Mehul Patel Comcast 4
#4 Ronnie S. Dhaliwal 4
#4 Claudia M. Combellas Level 3 Communications 4
#4 Brent Christopher Meridian International Co. 4
#8 Arlen K. Ward Covidien Lp 3
#8 John Grant GE 3
#8 David B. Leach Comcast 3
#8 Venkata Guddanti Oracle 3
#8 Daniel C. Venard Kärcher North America 3
#8 Michael John Block Johns Manville 3
#8 Joseph V. Ranalletta Baxter Corporation Englewood 3
#15 Christopher M. Macheca Gordon*Howard Associates 2
#15 Joshua Daniel Herbeck Green Ox Pallet Technology 2
#15 Matthew Bradley Stokes Halliburton Energy Services 2
#15 Gregory D. Van de Mark Green Ox Pallet Technology 2
#15 Robert Bartek Kior 2
#15 Christopher Joseph Long Cochlear Limited 2
#15 Raymond Klein Allosource 2
#15 Steven H. Hill Pearson Education 2
#15 Yuntao Liu IBM 2
#15 Scott Hellman Pearson Education 2
#25 Richard J. Johnson Baxter International 1
#25 Sarah Elizabeth Schaake Eca Medical Instruments 1
#25 Jonas Houchin Johns Manville 1
#25 Richard K. Welle, IV 1
#25 Wayne J. Powell Colorado Energy Research Technologies 1
#25 Holly Krutka Ada-Es 1
#25 James M. Sikela Evolutionary Genomics 1
#25 Robert Neale Lyman 1
#25 Joel C. Tyus 1
#25 Alan K. Schott Cottonwood Creek Technologies 1
#25 Ruilin Yang Orica International Pte 1
#25 Larry Travis Haws 1
#25 Bradley Wolf Credo Technology Group Limited 1
#25 Brom Kim Pearson Education 1
#25 Devin P. Levy Charter Communications Operating 1
#25 Ali I. Musani National Jewish Health 1
#25 Bruce Ray Johns Manville 1
#25 Ross Kedl 3M 1
#25 Shane Sawyer Workiva 1
#25 Mary Ann Franden Alliance For Sustainable Energy 1
#25 Leonard T. Rael Aytu Bioscience 1
#25 Tim White Alcatel Lucent 1
#25 Robert Alan Orlowski Comcast 1
#25 Michael Perri ExxonMobil 1
#25 Kunhua Song University of Colorado, A Body Corporate 1
#25 Marshall Gusman Kitty Hawk 1

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