Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Lafayette, CO ranks #789 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 184 patents from 112 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Lafayette, CO include Covidien Lp, Digimarc, Dexcom. That works out to 6.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 112 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Duane E. Kerr Covidien Lp 8
2 Vojtech Holub Digimarc 7
3 Keir Hart Covidien Lp 5
3 Michael J. Estes Dexcom 5
3 Leo Lesperance Nite Ize 5
3 Eileen Spindler Inscripta 5
3 Kurt J. Anglese Covidien Lp 5
#8 John Jesse Woodbine Gofire 4
#8 Jason W. Rupe Cable Television Laboratories 4
#10 Stephen H. Perlmutter Seagate Technology 3
#10 Vladimir Gorokhovsky G&H Technologies 3
#10 Peter L. Hajas Apple 3
#10 Laszlo Hars The Boeing 3
#10 Brian A. Scriber Cable Television Laboratories 3
#10 Austino Longo Netapp 3
#10 Jeremy M. Fiester Magpul Industries 3
#17 Todd Little Oracle 2
#17 Russell D. Hempstead Covidien Lp 2
#17 Daniel G. Rabe Oracle 2
#17 Stephen Scaringe Dharmacon 2
#17 William Bradley Bennett Magpul Industries 2
#17 Matthew Moses Cbn Nano Technologies 2
#17 Joshua Ari Gordon US Dept of Commerce 2
#17 Amy Lee Wohlschlegel Burlywood 2
#17 Hamid Abouhashem Schlage Lock Company 2
#17 Keri Reel Charlotte'S Web 2
#17 Steve Glennon Cable Television Laboratories 2
#17 Turner Sessions Magpul Industries 2
#17 Robert D. Zellers Teleflex Medical Devices S.À R.L. 2
#17 Joseph A. Paulus Covidien Lp 2
#17 Jason Ensher Insight Photonic Solutions 2
#17 Wei-Shyang Yang Medtronic 2
#17 Anthony N. McDougle Ledvance Gmbh 2
#17 Scott N. Lacosta Covidien Lp 2
#17 Kerri Ann Stone 2
#36 Bryan Loughry Comcast 1
#36 Jill Elaine Maxwell Zoll Medical 1
#36 James Patterson Texas Instruments 1
#36 David Wittekind Garlock Pipeline Technologies 1
#36 Joshua Hudgins Google 1
#36 Gary Pestano Ventana Medical Systems 1
#36 Richard L. Maginnis Micro Motion 1
#36 Amy E. Nack 1
#36 Michael Crawford Insight Photonic Solutions 1
#36 Fee Ling Chin 1
#36 Walter C. Voegtli Array Biopharma 1
#36 Mehrshad Setayesh Oracle 1
#36 Frank A. Borke Bestop 1
#36 Sandra Elkind 1
#36 Dan A. Hunter ExxonMobil 1

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