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Patents by state, ranked by patents per 100,000 population
The U.S. Patent and Trademark O昀케ce awarded 3,645 patents to Colorado inventors in FY2024.
State
Patents
Population
Patents
per 100,000
population
California
46,454
39,431,263
117.81
Massachusetts
7,976
7,136,171
111.77
Washington
6,560
7,958,180
82.43
Oregon
3,500
4,272,371
81.92
Minnesota
3,926
5,793,151
67.77
Idaho
1,311
2,001,619
65.50
Connecticut
2,403
3,675,069
65.39
New Hampshire
884
1,409,032
62.74
COLORADO
3,645
5,957,493
61.18
Michigan
5,665
10,140,459
55.87
Vermont
338
648,493
52.12
Utah
1,694
3,503,613
48.35
District of
Columbia
332
702,250
47.28
Wisconsin
2,773
5,960,975
46.52
New Jersey
4,194
9,500,851
44.14
Illinois
5,094
12,710,158
40.08
Rhode Island
433
1,112,308
38.93
Nevada
1,253
3,267,467
38.35
New York
7,605
19,867,248
38.28
Ohio
4,456
11,883,304
37.50
Arizona
2,819
7,582,384
37.18
Texas
11,552
31,290,831
36.92
Virginia
3,176
8,811,195
36.05
Delaware
351
1,051,917
33.37
North Carolina
3,674
11,046,024
33.26
Iowa
1,073
3,241,488
33.10
Pennsylvania
4,283
13,078,751
32.75
Maryland
1,958
6,263,220
31.26
Indiana
2,135
6,924,275
30.83
Wyoming
159
587,618
27.06
Kansas
723
2,970,606
24.34
Georgia
2,634
11,180,878
23.56
Florida
5,344
23,372,215
22.86
North Dakota
170
796,568
21.34
New Mexico
451
2,130,256
21.17
Montana
236
1,137,233
20.75
Missouri
1,281
6,245,466
20.51
South Carolina
1,070
5,478,831
19.53
Tennessee
1,366
7,227,750
18.90
Kentucky
774
4,588,372
16.87
South Dakota
155
924,669
16.76
Nebraska
321
2,005,465
16.01
Maine
217
1,405,012
15.44
Oklahoma
524
4,095,393
12.79
Arkansas
342
3,088,354
11.07
Hawaii
154
1,446,146
10.65
Alabama
484
5,157,699
9.38
Louisiana
407
4,597,740
8.85
West Virginia
95
1,769,979
5.37
Mississippi
156
2,943,045
5.30
Alaska
39
740,133
5.27
Patents per 100,000 residents
Colorado ranks No. 9 nationwide in patents per
100,000 residents. Patent data re昀氀ects patents
awarded in FY2024, and population data come
from 2024 population estimates.
5.27
Source: U.S. Patent and Trademark O昀케ce, U.S. Census Bureau
117.81
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, U.S .Patent
and Trademark O昀케ce, BizWest research
