Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Faribault, MN ranks #5,087 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 19 patents from 15 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Faribault, MN include Viratec Thin Films, Trystar, Seagate Technology. That works out to 0.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–15 of 15 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 William A. Meredith, Jr. Viratec Thin Films 2
1 Brian Allen Amacher Trystar 2
1 Gordon Jones Seagate Technology 2
1 Michael Gramse Living Greens Farm 2
#5 Dirk Skogerboe Bosch Automotive Service Solutions 1
#5 Nicholas Rancourt Northern Tool & Equipment Company 1
#5 John E. Van Dine Sage Electrochromics 1
#5 Dyland Lundberg Bosch Automotive Service Solutions 1
#5 Benjamin A. Bricko The Toro 1
#5 Richard Alan Schwartz Rosemount Aerospace 1
#5 Jeffrey Curtis Gillen Donaldson Company 1
#5 Robert Samuel Waddell Hni Technologies 1
#5 Gary A. Brown Hydra-Flex 1
#5 Garth H. Saul Aqseptence Group 1
#5 Caleb Freeman 1

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