Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Broomfield, CO ranks #460 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 7,060 patents from 1,198 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Broomfield, CO include Covidien Lp, Time Domain, Avaya. That works out to 95.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,198 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 James D. Allen, IV Covidien Lp 247
2 James L. Richards Time Domain 143
3 David Chavez Avaya 115
#4 Timothy Eric Roberts Magpul Industries 103
#5 Haipeng Zhang Cable Television Laboratories 80
#6 Jing Wang Cable Television Laboratories 77
#7 Junwen Zhang Cable Television Laboratories 75
#8 Daniel L. Helmick Western Digital Technologies 72
#9 Charles Hasek Time Warner Cable 71
#10 Michael D. Heibel Westinghouse Electric 67
#11 Gordon R. Brunson Avaya 66
#11 Randall A. Holliday International Communication Manufacturing 66
#11 Robert C. Steiner Avaya 66
#14 Milind S. Bhagavat AMD 65
#15 Joon Young Kim Hyundai Motor 61
#16 Dylan R. Kingsley Covidien Lp 60
#17 Jason Breakstone Liqid 58
#18 William J. Vanderheyden Oracle 57
#19 Nadav Grosz Micron 53
#20 Xicheng Sun Nivalis Therapeutics 49
#21 Darshak Thakore Cable Television Laboratories 48
#21 Neal Glover Cirrus Logic 48
#23 Kent D. Anderson Western Digital Technologies 42
#24 John W. Callahan Time Warner Cable 41
#24 Kent A. Smith Hunter Douglas 41
#26 Tony Moua Covidien Lp 40
#26 Gregory Allen Broome Comcast 40
#28 Adam Cook Icos 39
#28 Isaac K. Elliott Mci Communications 39
#30 Tushar Udeshi Google 36
#31 Chandra C. Varanasi Micron 35
#31 Mark J. Huseman Covidien Lp 35
#33 Bradley A. Jascob Medtronic 31
#34 Donald L. Brodigan 30
#35 Tony E. Schreiner Microsoft 29
#36 Peter D. Gadsby Covidien Lp 28
#36 Edward C. Miller Ball 28
#36 Eric Nakayama Magpul Industries 28
#36 William Baker Montana Instruments 28
#36 Ming Xie Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics Co. 28
#41 Vikas Sarawat Cable Television Laboratories 27
#41 Qing Li Broadcom 27
#43 Eric Klonowski Webroot 26
#44 Christopher Smith Research In Motion Limited 25
#44 Daryl William Malas Cable Television Laboratories 25
#44 Srinivas B. Tummalapenta IBM 25
#47 Thomas Yeh Tbl Licensing 24
#47 Mark Koch Pentax Of America 24
#47 Steven L. Lindquist Nite Ize 24
#50 Michael Louie Air Products And Chemicals 23

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