Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Brighton, CO ranks #3,969 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 724 patents from 175 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Brighton, CO include Hunter Douglas, Bestop, Halliburton Energy Services. That works out to 18.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 175 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Joseph E. Kovach Hunter Douglas 48
2 George C. Stickles Bestop 47
3 Jody R. McGlothen Halliburton Energy Services 34
#4 Eugene B. Ritchey Ritchey Manufacturing 22
#5 Joel Evan Hazy Johns Manville 21
#5 Michael D. Halleck Ilife Solutions 21
#7 Jeremy Kolenbrander Terumo Bct 20
#8 Dean C. Marchand Worlds.Com 19
#8 James L. Wood Ovonic Synthetic Materials Company 19
#10 Curtis W. Egan Maxtor 18
#11 William Hopkins Level 3 Communications 15
#12 Marek Jarosinski Hunter Douglas 14
#13 Craig E. Ritchey Ritchey Manufacturing 13
#13 Michael Kloberdans Charter Communications Operating 13
#15 Kenneth Lee Manes Storage Technology 12
#16 Millard Cull Affymax Technologies N.V. 11
#17 Andrew W. Munsell Hamskea Archery Solutions 10
#17 Timothy James Pickles Engineered Data Products 10
#19 Timothy Day Toshiba Medical Systems 9
#20 Tuan Van Tran Texas Instruments 7
#20 David W. Fiddes Chrysler Group 7
#20 Layne Railsback Gates 7
#20 Kevin Robinson Visteon Global Technologies 7
#24 Ruben Hernandez Excel Industries 6
#24 Joel Frederick 6
#24 Jonathan Record Outrider Technologies 6
#24 Robert R. Heim Xerox 6
#24 Ronald C. STITES Range Fuels 6
#24 Dieter P. Schnabel Seagate Technology 6
#24 Shellie Wickham Level 3 Communications 6
#24 Aberra Molla 6
#24 Harold R. Enander Vehicle System Co. 6
#24 Jason Griffith Pandoodle 6
#34 Bradford E. Bailey Medical Simulation 5
#34 Gregory C. Sturgeon Out Of Line Sports 5
#34 William G. Stahm Foresight Products 5
#34 Fenglan Zeng Anwiner Technology International 5
#34 Teresa J. Abbott Proterra Ag 5
#34 Billy G. Martin 5
#34 Rusty Nelson Avaya 5
#34 Joseph Hill Unknown 5
#42 Randall E. Tagawa 4
#42 Edward G. Schlegel 4
#42 Luke Ryan Noffsinger Terumo Bct 4
#42 Irwin Nederbragt National Semiconductor 4
#42 Laura Anne Clark First Solar 4
#42 Kenneth Tagawa 4
#42 Jim Pantera Conmed 4
#42 Tim Canaday Never Summer Industries 4
#42 George Tagawa 4

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