Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Aurora, CO ranks #748 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 4,540 patents from 1,215 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Aurora, CO include Newell Window Furnishings, Dell Products, Gerry Baby Products. That works out to 11.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,215 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 David A. Schwartz Newell Window Furnishings 106
2 Kamal J. Koshy Dell Products 57
2 Robert M. Parker Gerry Baby Products 57
#4 Thomas R. Payne GE 54
#5 Hossam Hmimy Charter Communications Operating 48
#6 Christopher William Bruhn Echostar Technologies L.L.C. 46
#7 James P. Rizzi Array Biopharma 44
#8 Sougata Saha T-Mobile Innovations 41
#8 David Chen Time Warner Cable 41
#10 Daniel A. Friedrichs Covidien Lp 38
#11 Bruce A. Sharpe Teletech Holdings 34
#11 Robert F. Baugh Medtronic 34
#13 John H. Miller University Of Houston 31
#13 Christopher Marden John Cain Depuy Synthes Products 31
#13 Christopher J. Griffin Johns Manville 31
#16 Lakhbir Singh Charter Communications Operating 30
#16 Kenneth Michael Hoganson Translogic 30
#18 Craig Jordan University Of Kentucky 29
#18 Michael L. Koltz Medtronic 29
#20 Tristan Davis Microsoft 28
#21 Dennis L. Brooks Medtronic 27
#21 Warren L. Seely Motorola 27
#23 Michael E. Finn Ben Hogan 26
#24 Eliot M. Case 25
#24 Charles F. Rose, III Microsoft 25
#24 Joseph Dogué Paragon 28 25
#24 Robert C. Hartman, Jr. IBM 25
#28 Robert E. Dutton Micro Motion 23
#29 Robert Dwayne Gossman Primestar Solar 22
#29 Harold T. Fogg Siemens Industry Software 22
#29 Joseph Karl Brauch Meurer Research 22
#32 Kathy E. Rooks Covidien Lp 21
#33 John W. Harvey Manville 20
#33 Shane Newberg Charter Communications Operating 20
#33 Paul R. Barnhill Resurgent Health & Medical 20
#36 Bryan Edward Rogers Biofire Technologies 19
#36 Weibin Jiang Res Usa 19
#36 Adam Schafer Echostar Technologies L.L.C. 19
#36 Alexander James Ross Signify Holding B.V. 19
#40 Yan Mayster Google 18
#40 Tomas Majtan University of Colorado, A Body Corporate 18
#40 Neil Puester Nilar International Ab 18
#43 Perwaiz Akhtar Charter Communications Operating 17
#43 Xinhua Yang Dish Network L.L.C. 17
#45 Qiong Zhou GE 16
#45 Christopher van den Honert Cochlear Limited 16
#45 Eric DiFelice Eaton Intelligent Power Limited 16
#45 Jun Urano Gevo 16
#45 Mark L. Miller Siemens Energy 16
#45 Scott W. Powell Unknown 16

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