Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Thornton, CO ranks #1,350 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 103 patents from 65 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Thornton, CO include Avodah, Dish Network L.L.C., IBM. That works out to 0.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 65 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Trevor Chandler Avodah 5
1 Rima Shah Dish Network L.L.C. 5
3 Brian K. Hoyt IBM 4
3 Andrew J. Broadworth Level 3 Communications 4
3 Kenneth M. Faller Hunter Douglas 4
#6 Dilan Nirushan Fernando Ricoh Company 3
#6 Robert E. Fisher Hunter Douglas 3
#6 Mario Saldana Roccor 3
#6 Shelbee D. Smith-Eigenbrode IBM 3
#10 Robert Gotschall Zoll Medical 2
#10 David Wayne Nowakowski Oracle 2
#10 Marshall Gause 2
#10 Paul J. Karp Magswitch Technology 2
#10 Mark A. Schwandt Hunter Douglas 2
#10 Richard E. Perego Rambus 2
#10 Shelbee D. Eigenbrode IBM 2
#10 Michael True Hunter Douglas 2
#10 Alan Ward Apple 2
#10 Michael C. Blanchard Magswitch Technology 2
#10 Geoffrey S. Parrington Mortarless Technologies 2
#10 Craig B. McAnally Micro Motion 2
#10 Jeffrey E. Bickford AT&T 2
#23 Stephen Goldberg 1
#23 Adam Brian Johnson Integrated Packaging Solutions 1
#23 Josh Nolting Digitalglobe 1
#23 Christopher Anthony Canaday 1
#23 Michael James Ross Titan Medical 1
#23 Michael Travis Gilbert Microsoft 1
#23 Greg Bernhardt Level 3 Communications 1
#23 Zachary Bergen General Atomics 1
#23 Mark Howard Hassel 1
#23 Dustin Monroe 1
#23 Jon P. Cloutier Zoll Medical 1
#23 Sharmistha Sarkar Gray Lena Foundation 1
#23 Karen Ann Constable 1
#23 Patrick Robertson Garlock Pipeline Technologies 1
#23 Timothy J. Miller Florida Turbine Technologies 1
#23 Christian Lee Gravel Unknown 1
#23 Jacob Hawk Harold 1
#23 Andre V. Gomez 1
#23 Dean Osborne 1
#23 Kelly Q. Rahn Hunter Douglas 1
#23 Matthew K. Payne Cnh Industrial America 1
#23 Jessica Koehler 1
#23 Steven E. Drake Level 3 Communications 1
#23 Robert Benjamin Barclay Valimail 1
#23 Tim Lei University of Colorado 1
#23 Larry Dean Constable 1
#23 Christopher R. Mueller Hunter Douglas 1
#23 Scott Bacon Kval 1

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