Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Nederland, CO ranks #3,786 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 769 patents from 124 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Nederland, CO include Eastman Kodak, Covidien Lp, M.M.A. Design. That works out to 522.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 124 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Daniel J. Harrison Eastman Kodak 91
2 James H. Orszulak Covidien Lp 57
3 Zachary S. Heiliger Covidien Lp 41
#4 Thomas J. Harvey M.M.A. Design 37
#5 Frank T. Smith Storage Technology 31
#6 Timothy C. Hughes Exabyte 28
#7 Paul M. Romano Cirrus Logic 24
#8 Lilac Muller Pts 21
#9 Michael R. Meadows Displaytech 19
#10 Oren T. McNulty Array Biopharma 17
#11 Jay S. Belsan Storage Technology 15
#11 Scott Franklin Lumos Solar 15
#13 Frederick G. Munro Storage Technology 14
#14 Christian P. Marlowe Exabyte 12
#14 James W. Hargarten Maxtor 12
#14 Brian Edward Dickerson Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 12
#14 Fred Greenfeld Intersil Americas 12
#18 Filip J. Yeskel IBM 11
#18 Jeffrey M. Waynik Medtronic 11
#18 Michael Friedman Intec Pharma 11
#21 Charles M. Sander Conner Peripherals 10
#22 Zahirudeen Premji Lsi 9
#22 Forrest Pieper MIT 9
#22 Stephen Wolf Dematic 9
#25 Donald W. Clay Conner Peripherals 8
#25 Ronald Permut Sony 8
#25 Kris S. Hess Bnsf Railway 8
#25 Andrew M. Herring Colorado School Of Mines 8
#29 Frank R. Smith Borgwarner 7
#29 John F. Harris, Jr. E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 7
#29 Christopher Dufton Gilead Sciences 7
#29 Christopher P. Meyer Copper Labs 7
#33 Paul Kummli Storage Technology 6
#33 James L. Apple Storage Technology 6
#35 Bob R. Southerland Broadcom 5
#35 John W. Woods Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 5
#35 Roger D. Shepherd IBM 5
#35 Howard H. Rather Oracle 5
#35 Cady Lynn Brooks Bi Incorporated 5
#35 David E. Watt Rmo 5
#41 Michael E. Mussler Aeroquip-Vickers International Gmbh 4
#41 Marlin C. Nielson IBM 4
#41 Cindy McMullen Bea Systems 4
#41 Kenneth P. Nolan IBM 4
#41 Ronald J. Stockton Ball 4
#46 Paul Bosma Konica Minolta Laboratory U.S.A. 3
#46 Russell W. Boehm IBM 3
#46 Philip E. Brunelle Maxtor 3
#46 Carlos Soledade Intel 3
#46 Ronald E. Dick 3

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