Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Boulder, CO ranks #79 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 30,934 patents from 5,018 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Boulder, CO include United Video Properties, Reald Spark, AMD. That works out to 285.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 5,018 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Michael D. Ellis United Video Properties 405
2 Michael G. Robinson Reald Spark 237
3 Steven P. Young AMD 215
#4 Larry Gold Nexstar Pharmaceuticals 191
#5 Gary D. Sharp Reald 149
#6 William Marshall Dharmacon 136
#7 John O. Louch Apple 133
#8 Jennifer Andreoli-Fang Cable Television Laboratories 126
#9 Kevin Curtis Magic Leap 112
#10 Julie St-Louis Wolverine World Wide 111
#11 George Saliba Quantum 108
#11 Mani N. Prakash Covidien Lp 108
#13 Steven W. Andrews Array Biopharma 97
#14 Timothy C. Ostwald Storage Technology 95
#15 Ivor Michel Walter Amsa 94
#16 Daniel Kurz Apple 92
#17 William R. Barclay Martek Biosciences 86
#18 Jack L. Jewell Picolight Incorporated 84
#19 Andrew Garst Inscripta 81
#20 Ronald J. Podhajsky Covidien Lp 78
#21 James A. Gilbert Covidien Lp 77
#22 Eric R. Larson Covidien Lp 76
#22 Glenn A. Horner Covidien Lp 76
#24 Joseph C. Walsh Graphic Packaging International 75
#24 James S. Cunningham Covidien Lp 75
#24 Robert M. Sharp Covidien Lp 75
#27 Robert H. Wham Covidien Lp 74
#28 David N. Heard Covidien Lp 72
#28 Mikel Stanich Ricoh Company 72
#30 Nebojsa Janjic Somalogic 70
#31 Don Masquelier Inscripta 69
#31 Michael Rosenblatt Apple 69
#33 Yutong Jiang Array Biopharma 68
#33 Roger B. Milne AMD 68
#35 Anthony Catalano Terralux 67
#36 Grant T. Sims Covidien Lp 64
#36 Julia Haas Array Biopharma 64
#36 Gregory Whiting Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated 64
#36 Ashish Kumar Stmicroelectronics International N.V. 64
#36 Eric Carlson Symyx Technologies 64
#41 Douglas J. Dellinger Agilent Technologies 63
#42 Pete D. Vogt Intel 62
#42 William Pachoud Zonit Structured Solutions 62
#42 Gregory M. Adelman Nite Ize 62
#45 William N. Aldrich Integrated Vascular Systems 60
#45 Douglas J. McKnight Reald 60
#47 Mark R. Ayres Akonia Holographics 58
#47 Gabrielle R. Kolakowski Array Biopharma 58
#47 Kevin Koch GE 58
#47 John B. Carlucci Time Warner Cable 58

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