Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Centennial, CO ranks #800 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 183 patents from 104 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Centennial, CO include Dish Network L.L.C., Charter Communications Operating, Johns Manville. That works out to 1.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 104 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Nicholas Newell Dish Network L.L.C. 11
2 Pratik Das Charter Communications Operating 9
3 Diwelawatte Jayawardene Charter Communications Operating 6
#4 Zhihua Guo Johns Manville 5
#4 Brian Buege 5
#6 Andrew Ip Charter Communications Operating 4
#6 Mehul Patel Comcast 4
#6 Matthew Bradley Stokes Halliburton Energy Services 4
#6 Ashutosh Kumar Sinha Charter Communications Operating 4
#10 Robert Alan Orlowski Comcast 3
#10 Joshua Daniel Herbeck Green Ox Pallet Technology 3
#10 Gregory D. Van de Mark Green Ox Pallet Technology 3
#10 Derek William Richard Chen-Becker Amazon 3
#10 Arlen K. Ward Covidien Lp 3
#10 John Grant GE 3
#10 Zubin Ingah 3
#10 Sarah Elizabeth Schaake Eca Medical Instruments 3
#10 Eric John Stevens GE 3
#10 Michael John Block Johns Manville 3
#20 Janice R. PAK Carefusion 303 2
#20 Joseph V. Ranalletta Baxter Corporation Englewood 2
#20 Jae Sang Lee Samsung 2
#20 Brian Patterson Seiko Epson 2
#20 Jim Hall Comcast 2
#20 Michael D. McMahon Comcast 2
#20 Jeffrey W. Stansbury University of Colorado 2
#20 Mary Ann Franden Alliance For Sustainable Energy 2
#20 Richard J. Johnson Baxter International 2
#20 Scott Hellman Pearson Education 2
#20 Stanislav Kukatin Johns Manville 2
#20 Ashish Lal Rajbanshi Kpmg Llp 2
#20 Chad T. Wells Ppc Broadband 2
#20 William Roberts Dish Network L.L.C. 2
#20 Scott Gene Buss Oracle 2
#20 Adam M. Litwinski Schlage Lock Company 2
#36 Marcus William Robert Birney Mersive Technologies 1
#36 Mark Torluemke Comcast 1
#36 Alla Balabanova University of Colorado, A Body Corporate 1
#36 John David Holder Oracle 1
#36 Amy Joyner 1
#36 Michael J. Lastowski Patco 1
#36 Tara Joseph-Labrie Level 3 Communications 1
#36 James P. Colleran Cpi Card Group-Colorado 1
#36 Michael Bowers Power Systems (Ps) 1
#36 Omkar Shripad Dharmadhikari Cable Television Laboratories 1
#36 Gregory John Berka Open Text 1
#36 Venkata Ramana Divvi Charter Communications Operating 1
#36 Brent Christopher Meridian International Co. 1
#36 Eric Motazedi Accenture Global Solutions Limited 1
#36 Thomas C Wisehart, Jr. IBM 1

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