Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Denver, CO ranks #138 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 20,041 patents from 4,554 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Denver, CO include Magpul Industries, Dharmacon, Thule Organization Solutions. That works out to 28.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 4,554 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Michael T. Mayberry Magpul Industries 307
2 Devin Leake Dharmacon 143
3 Steven Read Dharmacon 120
#4 Paul Fair Thule Organization Solutions 115
#5 Alexander Giladi Comcast 102
#6 Saul E. Greenhut Medtronic 99
#7 Malik Y. Kahook University of Colorado, A Body Corporate 89
#8 Stephen P. Smith Hunter Douglas 88
#9 Daniel H. Greene Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated 86
#10 Richard M. Lee Iposi 79
#10 Bryan Krueger Classic Brands 79
#12 Grady Barfoot Magpul Industries 78
#13 Matthew Bailey Thalmic Labs 72
#14 Ryan T. Gill Inscripta 69
#14 Anand Gupta Applied Materials 69
#16 Albert W. Gebhard Golight 68
#16 Douglas Bell Energous 68
#16 Mark A. Ross Dell Products 68
#19 James E. Chomas Ulthera 67
#20 Yohannes Iyassu Nuvectra 64
#21 Jordan Simons Ag 18 62
#21 Nicholas Kielsmeier Magpul Industries 62
#23 Jonathan Allen Coe Metavention 61
#24 Jeffrey Binder Layer3 Tv 60
#25 James J. Kelly IBM 58
#25 Alan R. Fritzberg Neorx 58
#25 Shlomo Ovadia Intel 58
#28 Brian Bingham Cisco 57
#29 Artur Bergman Fastly 56
#29 James Scott Cannata Liqid 56
#31 Jeffrey B. Kleiner Spinal Surgical Strategies 54
#32 Jonathan Greene Rom Technologies 53
#33 Dylan M. Jacob Brumate 52
#33 James M. Anthony Hunter Douglas 52
#35 Stephen T. Wisecup Hunter Douglas 50
#35 Stuart J. Boland Ricoh Company 50
#35 David McNeill Kabam, 50
#38 Robert Donegan Classic Brands 49
#38 Michael A. Nix AMD 49
#40 Stephen Opferman 46
#41 Shawn Shelton Navajo Manufacturing Company 45
#41 Charles C. Rinzler Foro Energy 45
#41 Louis D. Williamson Time Warner Cable 45
#44 Daniel J. Lee Paragon 28 44
#44 Karl S. Fleischer Stolle Machinery Company 44
#46 Jeremy Mickelsen Echostar Technologies L.L.C. 43
#46 Alexander Jacob Mayhew Crocs 43
#48 Peter Wilding University of Pennsylvania 41
#48 Saran Khalid Charter Communications Operating 41
#48 Andrew Wald Medtronic 41

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