Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Fort Collins, CO ranks #132 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 20,510 patents from 3,421 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Fort Collins, CO include HP, AMD, Otter Products. That works out to 120.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 3,421 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Steven J. Simske HP 240
2 Samuel D. Naffziger AMD 151
3 Curtis R. Richardson Otter Products 122
#4 Daniel J. Hoffman Applied Materials 117
#5 Sandra G. Malhotra Intermolecular 113
#6 Gregg B. Lesartre Hewlett Packard Enterprise 102
#7 Jamie L. Johnson Otter Products 96
#8 Stephen V. Kosonocky AMD 92
#9 Michael J. Quinn Water Pik 87
#10 Alan V. Morine Otter Products 86
#10 Byron A. Alcorn HP 86
#12 Fred Charles Thomas, III HP 81
#13 Richard T. Schultz AMD 78
#14 James C. Dow 75
#15 Nenad Rijavec IBM 72
#16 Jade M. Kizer Rambus 71
#17 David W. Osborne Arcutis Biotherapeutics 70
#18 Richard L. Dunn Atrix Laboratories 69
#18 Cameron Magness Otter Products 69
#20 Dariusz Burak Avago Technologies General Ip (Singapore) Pte. 68
#21 Daniel Carter Advanced Energy Industries 66
#22 Robert M. Williams Colorado State University 65
#23 Blaine D. Gaither HP 63
#23 Gayle W. Miller 63
#23 Gideon Van Zyl Advanced Energy Industries 63
#23 Makarand Gore HP 63
#27 Edward Jeffrey Donner Jcbd 62
#28 Nobuyoshi Yasuda Merck 61
#28 Leland C. Leber Water Pik 61
#30 Gary Ross Highwave 59
#31 Raymond P. Goodrich, Jr. Cryopharm 58
#32 Kurt Spears HP 55
#33 Matthew M. Glanzer Otter Products 53
#33 Brent Buchanan Hewlett Packard Enterprise 53
#33 Dale Schmaltz Sherwood Services Ag 53
#33 Derek L. Knee Microsoft 53
#33 Stephen Gold HP 53
#38 Kelly J. Reasoner HP 52
#38 Lucas B. Weller Otter Products 52
#40 Alan S. Krech, Jr. 51
#40 John P. Fitzgerald Otter Products 51
#40 Kevin W. Witter Otter Products 51
#43 John Wuu AMD 50
#43 Paul James Moyer AMD 50
#45 Jonathan K. Abrokwah Motorola 49
#45 Harold S. Crafts Ncr 49
#45 Gregg S. Schmidtke HP 49
#45 Jackson L. Ellis 49
#45 Christopher Melanson Otter Products 49
#50 Derek Alan Sherlock Hewlett Packard Enterprise 48

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