Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Bloomington, MN ranks #592 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 212 patents from 140 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Bloomington, MN include Seagate Technology, Honeywell, Tornier Sas. That works out to 2.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 140 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Rodney Virgil Bowman Seagate Technology 6
2 Barrett E. Cole Honeywell 5
2 Pascal Boileau Tornier Sas 5
#4 Benny K. Nelson Donaldson Company 4
#4 Daniel E. Adamek Donaldson Company 4
#4 Kwong Wing Au Honeywell 4
#4 Thomas V. Ressemann Scimed Life Systems 4
#4 Erik J. Gronvall Commscope Technologies 4
#9 Ed F. Rejda Seagate Technology 3
#9 Leping Li IBM 3
#9 Saeed Fahimi Imation 3
#9 Gilles Walch Tornier Sas 3
#9 Raymond Leroy Moudry Seagate Technology 3
#9 Konstantin Nikolaev Seagate Technology 3
#9 Puskal Prasad Pokharel Seagate Technology 3
#9 Syed Amanula Syed Asif Hysitron 3
#9 Justin Brons Seagate Technology 3
#9 Robert Fernandez Seagate Technology 3
#9 Thomas Lundgren Donaldson Company 3
#9 Drew Michael Mader Seagate Technology 3
#21 Lina Cao Seagate Technology 2
#21 Philippe Levesque Illinois Tool Works 2
#21 Ron A. Balczewski Cardiac Pacemakers 2
#21 Andrew Wold Ecolab Usa 2
#21 Paul K. Scheper Shuffle Master 2
#21 Erling J. Ringquist General Mills 2
#21 Christopher T. Abrahamson Cardiocom 2
#21 Yvonne J. Iverson 2
#21 Mikhail L. Pekurovsky 3M 2
#21 Lynn A. Winter 2
#21 Glenn M. Tom Advanced Technology & Materials Co. 2
#21 Jon Paul Hurley Seagate Technology 2
#21 John Charles Duda Seagate Technology 2
#21 Carolyn J. Finnerty Donaldson Company 2
#21 Eric P. Jerke Zimmer Spine 2
#21 Brian T. Stolz Medtronic 2
#21 Steve Faulhaber Seagate Technology 2
#21 James Moorman 2
#21 Jason Gregory Lang Ecolab Usa 2
#21 Syed Amanulla Syed Asif Bruker Nano 2
#41 Thomas H. Spear Medtronic 1
#41 Kyle Eastenson Himont 1
#41 Shady Gross Tenksolar 1
#41 Richard Garner Cox Seagate Technology 1
#41 Brad Kahler 1
#41 James Michael Forsberg 1
#41 Anthony S. Ratkovich Tel Fsi 1
#41 Paige B. Hastings Covidien Lp 1
#41 Mustafa Can Ozturk Seagate Technology 1
#41 Frederick J. Gustafson 3M 1

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