Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Golden, CO ranks #528 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 6,373 patents from 1,256 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Golden, CO include IBM, Avaya, Navajo Manufacturing Company. That works out to 312.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,256 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Robert David Allen IBM 115
1 David Skiba Avaya 115
3 Gordon Levy Navajo Manufacturing Company 91
#4 Daniel A. Joseph Covidien Lp 76
#5 Joel G. Hassell United Video Properties 75
#6 Michael Nickel Boa Technology 61
#7 Carl T. Gould Abl Ip Holding 59
#7 Joseph P. Markham Bounce 59
#9 Kevin K. Groeneweg Concaten 57
#10 Dennis J. Dupray Tracbeam 56
#11 Charles Lonnie Meurer Meurer Research 53
#12 Randy Allard Paragon 28 52
#13 Michael Cutter Roku 49
#14 Gary A. Carson Medivance Incorporated 48
#14 David H. Roland Rovcal 48
#16 Bernard McKibben Cable Television Laboratories 46
#17 Robert M. Zubrin Pioneer Energy 44
#18 Dane Gillaspie View 43
#18 Scott Daniel Feldman-Peabody Primestar Solar 43
#20 Troy L. Holsing Veran Medical Technologies 41
#21 Gregg Tyler BECKHAM Alliance For Sustainable Energy 40
#22 David K. Benson Midwest Research Institute 39
#22 Macy J. Price, Jr. Engineered Data Products 39
#24 David S. Ginley Alliance For Sustainable Energy 38
#25 Mark Berggren Pioneer Energy 37
#26 David R. Baughman Phelps Dodge 36
#27 Nathan Schuknecht Array Technologies 34
#28 C. Edwin Tracy Midwest Research Institute 33
#29 Kevin S. Marchitto Rocky Mountain Biosystems 32
#29 Joelle T. Maslak Level 3 Communications 32
#31 David D. Larson Progress Profiles Spa 31
#31 Shawn W. Snyder Apple 31
#33 Andrew Lamborne Zimmer Biomet Spine 30
#33 Scott A. Merritt X-Nav Technologies 30
#33 Joseph Moctezuma Sdgi 30
#36 Wim J. van Ooij University Of Cincinnati 28
#36 Matanya B. Horowitz Amp Robotics 28
#36 Grant Hocking Geosierra 28
#36 Anuj Chauhan University of Florida 28
#36 Thomas Pollack Boa Technology 28
#36 Timothy Slatcher Palantir Technologies 28
#42 Mark Whipple Broadcom 27
#43 Jeramy D. Zimmerman University of Michigan 26
#43 M. Gaines Chesnut Ram-Line 26
#43 Benjamin William Dwyer Biofire Technologies 26
#43 Christopher J. Wicken Balloon Innovations 26
#47 Sean Cavanagh Boa Technology 24
#47 Christopher W. Crowley Panacea Medical Laboratories 24
#47 Mark W. Wanlass Alliance For Sustainable Energy 24
#50 Brian J. Nankervis Terumo Bct 23

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