Top Inventors in Thornton, CO | Patent Leaderboard

Thornton, CO ranks #1,376 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 2,443 patents from 517 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Thornton, CO include Rambus, Avaya, AT&T. That works out to 17.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 517 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Richard E. Perego	Rambus	145
2	Andrew D. Flockhart	Avaya	85
3	Gary J. Grimes	AT&T	74
#4	Robert E. Fisher	Hunter Douglas	62
#5	Ming-Chien Shan	HP	57
#6	Timothy J. Miller	Florida Turbine Technologies	50
#7	Shelbee D. Smith-Eigenbrode	IBM	48
#8	Andrew J. Broadworth	Level 3 Communications	43
#9	Craig B. McAnally	Micro Motion	42
#10	Kenneth M. Faller	Hunter Douglas	35
#11	Gregory P. Harkenrider	Hunter Douglas	34
#11	Michael Walker	Proterra Ag	34
#13	Jeffrey E. Bickford	AT&T	31
#14	Alvin Stanley Cullick	Landmark Graphics	30
#15	Donald W. Heckel	Covidien Lp	28
#16	David P. Besko	Covidien Lp	27
#17	Nick Kielsmeier	Magpul Industries	26
#18	Alan Ward	Apple	24
#19	Trevor Chandler	Avodah	23
#19	David E. Rasmussen	Johnson Service	23
#21	Gagandeep Singh Lamba	Rambus	21
#21	Rima Shah	Dish Network L.L.C.	21
#23	David Craig	Halliburton Energy Services	20
#24	Dilan Nirushan Fernando	Ricoh Company	19
#24	Patrick M. Bertsch	Swift Distribution	19
#24	Kelly Wanser	Fortinet	19
#27	Laurence G. Ball	Engineered Data Products	18
#27	Larry Adams	Composite Technology Development	18
#29	Wayne Summons	Sashco	17
#29	Paul J. Karp	Magswitch Technology	17
#31	Stephen L. Maynard	—	16
#32	Chandra Ravipati	Avaya	14
#32	Gregory J. Beveridge	Mediaone Group	14
#32	Kaushik Mallick	Steelhead Composites	14
#35	Robert Gotschall	Zoll Medical	13
#35	Adam A. Swartz	IBM	13
#37	Edward A. Mayda	Frontier Wind, Llc.	12
#37	Steven E. Drake	Level 3 Communications	12
#37	Joseph Michael Letkomiller	The Goodyear Tire & Rubber	12
#37	Hoi Kwan Wong	Navajo Manufacturing Company	12
#37	Mark A. Schwandt	Hunter Douglas	12
#37	Brian K. Hoyt	IBM	12
#43	David Wayne Nowakowski	Oracle	11
#43	Matthew Miller	Cisco	11
#43	Kelly Q. Rahn	Hunter Douglas	11
#43	Phillip M. Thomas	AT&T	11
#43	John Biondo	Trimble Navigation Limited	11
#48	Samid Ameer Hoda	Level 3 Communications	10
#48	Russell D. Richardson	Ingersoll-Rand	10
#48	Mark Alvin Mason	Cartasite	10

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