Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Highlands Ranch, CO ranks #693 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 205 patents from 121 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Highlands Ranch, CO include Intel, The Boeing, Microsoft. That works out to 2.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 121 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Hubert C. George Intel 10
2 Sean Auffinger The Boeing 7
3 Russell Andrew Penar Microsoft 5
3 Souvik Nandi Johns Manville 5
3 Christopher J. Allen Weber-Stephen Products 5
#6 Ebben Aries Arrcus 4
#6 Klaus Friedrich Gleich Johns Manville 4
#6 Daniel Freyermuth Storyteller Overland, Llc. 4
#6 Matthew Wormington Bruker Technologies 4
#10 Matthew J. Christopher Comcast 3
#10 Robert D. Drost Multilift 3
#10 Matthew Petersen Charter Communications Operating 3
#10 Guodong Zheng Johns Manville 3
#10 Christopher W. Watson Charter Communications Operating 3
#10 Job Bacon-Maldonado, III Multilift 3
#10 Jason Burgess Comcast 3
#10 Trent E. Garner Roger Cleveland Golf Company 3
#10 Mowen Li Ada Carbon Solutions 3
#10 Sergey Yermakov Level 3 Communications 3
#10 Peter Fischer IBM 3
#21 Lance Miller Contitech Usa 2
#21 Gopalakrishnan Hariharan 2
#21 John David Bilthuis Oracle 2
#21 Justin T. Monk Visa 2
#21 Chris Cochran The Western Union 2
#21 Travis Duane Ewert Level 3 Communications 2
#21 Alistair Chatwin Anacove 2
#21 Rajan Modi Oracle 2
#21 Timothy Allons, Jr. Warming Trends 2
#21 Mark Allan Granger Johns Manville 2
#21 Chris Kennedy Comcast 2
#21 James Searle AMD 2
#21 Haoyang Li Kunlunxin Technology (Beijing) Company Limited 2
#21 Barry R. Carson Xybix Systems 2
#21 Peter T. Gallanis Unknown 2
#21 Christopher Kennedy Comcast 2
#21 Philip Francis Miele Johns Manville 2
#21 Michele Demark The Western Union 2
#21 Sachin A. Sankholkar Titan Medical 2
#21 Alan Lee Erickson Adobe 2
#21 Ryan Lee Shannon United Launch Alliance, L.L.C. 2
#21 Leroy D. Jutte Circa Scientific 2
#21 Bryce Elliott Randle Spoked Solutions 2
#44 Joanna Paul 1
#44 Clayton Drew Seeley Oracle 1
#44 Gregory Duval Nagrastar 1
#44 Naveen Kadiyala 1
#44 Alex Seth Fonoroff Dish Network L.L.C. 1
#44 James Eric Compton 1
#44 Jeff Franek 1

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