Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Edina, MN ranks #541 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 229 patents from 129 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Edina, MN include Boston Scientific Scimed, Seagate Technology, 3M. That works out to 4.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 129 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Chaouki A. Khamis Boston Scientific Scimed 6
1 Yuhang Cheng Seagate Technology 6
3 William H. Moser 3M 5
3 Aaron R. McCabe Cardiac Pacemakers 5
3 Paul M. Goudreau Tenacious Holdings 5
3 Yousef F. Alkhatib St. Jude Medical 5
#7 William F. Kaemmerer Medtronic 4
#7 Dadi Setiadi Seagate Technology 4
#7 Liliana Atanasoska Boston Scientific Scimed 4
#7 Andrew H. Cragg Trans1 4
#7 Riyan Alex Mendonsa Seagate Technology 4
#12 Lars Oddsson Massachusetts Eye And Ear Infirmary 3
#12 Yong Yang Seagate Technology 3
#12 Ryan D. Gordon Rebiotix 3
#12 Jeffrey D. Johnson King Technology 3
#12 Jason C. Lee Spin Master 3
#12 Deborah A. McConnell Trane International 3
#12 Eric J. Panken Medtronic 3
#12 Kenneth T. Heruth Medtronic 3
#12 Hugh D. Hestad Zimmer Spine 3
#12 Thomas B. Hoegh Medtronic 3
#12 Richard M. Ehrlich Sumitomo Electric Industries 3
#12 Manuel Charles Anaya-Dufresne Seagate Technology 3
#12 Dongsung Hong Seagate Technology 3
#12 Abhishek Roy Dow Global Technologies 3
#12 Mou Paul Dow Global Technologies 3
#27 David J. Kupiecki Target Therapeutics 2
#27 William Bartkowski Chong 2
#27 Karrie LaRae Recker Starkey Laboratories 2
#27 David J. Sogard Boston Scientific Scimed 2
#27 Mark William Covington Seagate Technology 2
#27 James Dillon Kiely Seagate Technology 2
#27 William Durand Honeywell 2
#27 Charles Mohn Xrs 2
#27 Richard L. Wilson Entegris 2
#27 Thomas G. Clifford Broadcom 2
#27 Christopher B. Johns Cray 2
#27 Robert L. Rykhus Ams Research 2
#27 Philippe Raffy Vida Diagnostics 2
#27 Steven Tin Honeywell 2
#27 Paul A. James Krueger International 2
#27 David A. Deen Seagate Technology 2
#27 Jean-Christophe Giron Sage Electrochromics 2
#27 Michael W. Kimmel Medtronic 2
#27 Timothy J. Nordberg Honeywell 2
#27 Christopher L. Holt Aon Global Risk Research Limited 2
#27 Dimitar V. Dimitrov Seagate Technology 2
#27 Jason Alan Shiroff Mainstay Medical Limited 2
#27 Steven J. Koester IBM 2
#27 Steven W. Lundberg Black Hills Ip Holdings 2

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