Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Lakewood, CO ranks #738 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 4,582 patents from 1,100 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Lakewood, CO include Kpn Innovations, United Video Properties, Graphic Packaging International. That works out to 29.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,100 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Kenneth Neumann Kpn Innovations 265
2 Edward B. Knudson United Video Properties 105
3 Thomas Schwengler 74
#4 Kelly R. Fitzwater Graphic Packaging International 56
#5 Neil Marten Dish Network L.L.C. 52
#6 Wayne W. Hazen Phelps Dodge 51
#6 Robert S. Ward Exthera Medical 51
#8 Michael T. Kelly Graham Packaging Company 48
#9 Brian Phillips Steiner Company 45
#10 Eric W. Larson Covidien Lp 44
#11 Erik Lier Lockheed Martin 43
#11 Mark William Charbonneau Johns Manville 43
#13 Paul Kessman Medtronic 37
#14 Michael Fulton Lanx 35
#15 William Louis Abbott Meta 32
#16 Wil McCarthy Ravenbrick 31
#16 Ronald A. Lenhart Precision Metal Fabricators 31
#18 Glen Delbert Antwiler Terumo Bct 30
#18 Marlene Adele Bainbridge 30
#20 Geoff Lai Mighty Oak Medical 28
#21 Adam Bearup Karcher North America 27
#22 Andrew D. Sappey Zolo Technologies 26
#22 Richard M. Powers Ravenbrick 26
#22 Paul J Moran 3Com 26
#25 John C. Cheronis Cortech 25
#25 Richard F. Borch Purdue Research Foundation 25
#27 John E. Smith Meade Instruments 23
#27 Jonathan Watkins Watkins Manufacturing 23
#29 Marcel Guajardo Dish Wireless L.L.C. 21
#29 Thomas W. Meiser Covidien Lp 21
#29 Toby Mark Padilla Assa Abloy Ab 21
#32 Peter M. Karas The Western Union 20
#33 Tracy Jay Fowler Stolle Machinery Company 19
#33 Peter Zawistowski Yeti Cycling 19
#33 Derek Richard VARDON Alliance For Sustainable Energy 19
#33 Svitlana Trygubova Dish Network L.L.C. 19
#33 David W. Bainbridge Brock Usa 19
#38 Charles Coleman Ixys 17
#38 Thomas J. Veenstra Innotec 17
#38 Michael Ott Oracle 17
#38 Casey V. Medina Terumo Bct 17
#38 Curtis J. FRANKLIN Prytime Medical Devices 17
#38 David H. Johnson Applied Research Associates 17
#38 Marinus Franciscus Antonius Maria van Hest Alliance For Sustainable Energy 17
#45 Patrick B. Edson 16
#45 John E. Litz Wrt International 16
#45 Michael Seibert Alliance For Sustainable Energy 16
#45 Melvin P. Tucker Alliance For Sustainable Energy 16
#45 Steven H. Johnson IBM 16
#50 Timothy J. Eggeman Zeachem 15

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