Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Louisville, CO ranks #688 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 4,863 patents from 788 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Louisville, CO include Avaya, Array Biopharma, Covidien Lp. That works out to 229.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 788 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Charles I. Cook 165
2 Paul Roller Michaelis Avaya 128
3 Qian Zhao Array Biopharma 90
#4 Kristin D. Johnson Covidien Lp 82
#5 Richard T. Behrens Cirrus Logic 80
#6 Timothy R. Feldman Seagate Technology 75
#7 George N. Cox, III Bolder Biotechnology 59
#8 Francis Ming-Meng Ngai Qualcomm 55
#9 William W. Cimino The Gid Group 50
#9 Bo Chen Arris Enterprises 50
#11 Arnold M. Lund AT&T 47
#12 Joseph P. Newell Bi Incorporated 44
#13 Sandeep Nijhawan Applied Materials 41
#13 Steven Michael Hughes Coldquanta 41
#15 Angele Sjong Empire Technology Development 37
#15 Donna Kelley Biofire Technologies 37
#15 William B. Long Amp 37
#18 Robert J. Smith Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited 36
#18 Ramesh Sundaram Seagate Technology 36
#20 Bruce David Gibson Lexmark International 34
#20 Gregory Charles White Cable Television Laboratories 34
#22 Weimei Luo Lexmark International 33
#23 Eric R. Keller AMD 32
#24 David Kreutzman D Three Enterprises 31
#25 Aloke Guha Copan Systems 29
#26 Jason Heger Snap 28
#26 David A. Wright 28
#28 Bruce M. Burg Medtronic 27
#28 Gregory D. Volan Storage Technology 27
#30 Stephen R. Martin Fairchild Semiconductor 25
#30 Ryan Boesch Ceremorphic 25
#30 Michael Steven Milillo Storage Technology 25
#33 Sarah Strong N30 Pharmaceuticals 24
#33 Dennis Michael Carney IBM 24
#35 Ai Quoc Pham University of California 23
#35 Eric Collins 23
#35 Charles Paul Stack Micro Motion 23
#35 James C. Cates Storage Technology 23
#39 John VanLaanen Maxtor 22
#40 Mark L. Watson Storage Technology 21
#40 Eric Ryterski Intel 21
#40 Steven Norwood Norwood Architecture 21
#40 Mark J. Poletti Cable Television Laboratories 21
#44 Michael J. Fargano 20
#44 Bernard Patrick Masterson Zolo Technologies 20
#44 David G. Hostetter Oracle 20
#47 Jay T. Young AMD 19
#47 Howard L. Johnson Unknown 19
#47 Gregg E. Freebury Tendeg 19
#50 Blaine Bateman Centurion Wireless Technologies 18

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