Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Boulder, CO ranks #104 worldwide for total patents filed in 2022, with 1,252 patents from 725 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Boulder, CO include Reald Spark, Cable Television Laboratories, Covidien Lp. That works out to 11.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 725 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Michael G. Robinson Reald Spark 19
2 Jennifer Andreoli-Fang Cable Television Laboratories 15
3 Grant T. Sims Covidien Lp 12
3 Robert A. Ramsey Reald Spark 12
#5 Nikita Gurudath Ricoh Company 11
#6 Daniel Kurz Apple 10
#6 Andrew Garst Inscripta 10
#8 Robert F. McCullough, Jr. Covidien Lp 8
#9 Ivor Michel Walter Amsa 7
#9 Gary D. Sharp Reald 7
#9 Mikel Stanich 7
#9 William R. Power Level 3 Communications 7
#13 Brian A. KNOLLENBERG Particle Measuring Systems 6
#13 Ziling Zhang Ricoh Company 6
#13 Kevin Curtis Magic Leap 6
#13 Ashish Kumar Stmicroelectronics International N.V. 6
#17 William Bryan Schafer, III Energy Integration 5
#17 William Pachoud Zonit Structured Solutions 5
#17 Joseph Padden Cable Television Laboratories 5
#17 Robert B. Eisenhuth Micron 5
#17 Jeffrey Shainline MIT 5
#17 Mark Maybee Oracle 5
#17 Jack L. Jewell Picolight Incorporated 5
#17 Robert Ledner Here Global B.V. 5
#17 Bradley Jay Sissom Magic Leap 5
#17 Sharif Razzaque Inneroptic Technology 5
#17 Stephen Federowicz Inscripta 5
#17 Etan D. Karni Zsm Holding 5
#17 Karthik Sundaresan Cable Television Laboratories 5
#17 Robert M. Sharp Covidien Lp 5
#17 William Gray Level 3 Communications 5
#32 Gregory M. Adelman Nite Ize 4
#32 Michael B. Lyons Covidien Lp 4
#32 Julia Haas Array Biopharma 4
#32 Juliet T. Gopinath University of Colorado, A Body Corporate 4
#32 Daniel Lisogurski Covidien Lp 4
#32 Alok Baikadi Pearson Education 4
#32 Yutong Jiang Array Biopharma 4
#32 Stefan Maus Magnetic Variation Services 4
#32 David J. Van Tol Covidien Lp 4
#32 Mikel Stanich Ricoh Company 4
#32 Joseph C. Walsh Graphic Packaging International 4
#32 James Sayre Level 3 Communications 4
#32 Dale Karacostas Nite Ize 4
#32 George Saliba Quantum 4
#32 Raymond B. Avedon Airius Ip Holdings 4
#32 John McGowan Yvolve Sports Limited 4
#32 Anthony B. Ross Covidien Lp 4
#32 Kristopher Holub Dropworks 4
#32 John O. Louch Apple 4

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