Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Brookings, SD ranks #3,680 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 29 patents from 19 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Brookings, SD include Pioneer (Corteva), University of Virginia, Novita Nutrition. That works out to 1.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–19 of 19 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Jay Robert Hotchkiss Pioneer (Corteva) 7
2 Paul Rushton University of Virginia 3
3 Donald Endres Novita Nutrition 2
3 Keith Bruinsma Novita Nutrition 2
#5 Kevin J. Dalsted South Dakota Board Of Regents 1
#5 Sunny Kumar University of California 1
#5 Matt Buisker Daktronics 1
#5 William Gibbons South Dakota State University 1
#5 Hemachand Tummala South Dakota Board Of Regents 1
#5 Allan D. Heuton 1
#5 Omathanu P. Perumal South Dakota State University 1
#5 Zhengrong Gu South Dakota Board Of Regents 1
#5 Daniel S. Humburg South Dakota Board Of Regents 1
#5 Laura Bartle Martin Glaxosmithkline Biologicals Sa 1
#5 Mahdi Farrakh Baroughi South Dakota Board Of Regents 1
#5 Ranjith Kumar Averineni South Dakota State University 1
#5 Dustin Treml Daktronics 1
#5 Michael W. Kondratuk Larson Manufacturing Company Of South Dakota 1
#5 Trent Sorbe Metabank 1

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