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Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Boulder, CO ranks #91 worldwide for total patents filed in 2020, with 1,412 patents from 709 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Boulder, CO include Inscripta, Cable Television Laboratories, Apple. That works out to 13.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 709 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Don Masquelier Inscripta 32
2 Andrew Garst Inscripta 29
3 Jennifer Andreoli-Fang Cable Television Laboratories 19
#4 Daniel Kurz Apple 12
#4 Elizabeth J. Main Enel X North America 12
#6 Altan Nahum Popsockets 10
#6 Eric Winkelman Cable Television Laboratories 10
#6 Steven W. Andrews Array Biopharma 10
#9 Kyle Seamon Inscripta 9
#9 Michael G. Robinson Reald Spark 9
#9 David B. Barnett Popsockets 9
#9 Michael D. Sprenger 9
#9 Gregory M. Adelman Nite Ize 9
#14 Gabrielle R. Kolakowski Array Biopharma 8
#14 Julia Haas Array Biopharma 8
#14 Mark Maybee Oracle 8
#14 Joel Weinstein Micro Motion 8
#18 David N. Heard Covidien Lp 7
#18 Robert M. Sharp Covidien Lp 7
#18 James A. Gilbert Covidien Lp 7
#18 Tony P. Tang Array Biopharma 7
#18 Hana Schuster Smith Dell Products 7
#18 William R. Power Level 3 Communications 7
#18 Michael D. Ellis United Video Properties 7
#18 John J. Kappus Covidien Lp 7
#26 Yutong Jiang Array Biopharma 6
#26 Brock Kopp Covidien Lp 6
#26 Stephen Federowicz Inscripta 6
#26 Raymond B. Avedon Airius Ip Holdings 6
#26 Anthony B. Ross Covidien Lp 6
#26 Kevin Koch GE 6
#26 David F. Willson Popsockets 6
#26 Deanna Church Inscripta 6
#26 Stephen James Sheafor Ambiq Micro 6
#35 Craig A. Keller Covidien Lp 5
#35 Vikas Muppidi Reddy Occipital 5
#35 Joseph Padden Cable Television Laboratories 5
#35 Gregory Whiting Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated 5
#35 Nikita Gurudath Ricoh Company 5
#35 Mikel Stanich Ricoh Company 5
#35 Jeffrey L. Jensen Covidien Lp 5
#35 Paul Jakob Schroeder Occipital 5
#35 Eric Dennis Klumper Rcm Enterprise L.L.C. 5
#35 William Pachoud Zonit Structured Solutions 5
#35 Jeffrey Chiles University Of Central Florida 5
#35 Lenn Soderlund Misty Robotics 5
#35 Jerome Thomas Coffey Seagate Technology 5
#35 Matthew Estes Inscripta 5
#35 Eric R. Larson Covidien Lp 5
#35 Neil Brian Cramer Align Technology 5

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