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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Windom, MN ranks #318 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 380 patents from 228 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Windom, MN include 3M, Cardiac Pacemakers, Stratasys. That works out to 79.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 228 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Stephan A. Hawthorne 3M 9
1 Cristin E. Moran 3M 9
3 Thomas W. Floyd 3M 8
3 Marina Brockway Cardiac Pacemakers 8
#5 William J. Swanson Stratasys 7
#5 Michael Benton Free 3M 7
#7 Brian Brockway Vivaquant 6
#7 Ann R. Fornof 3M 6
#9 Keith A. Miesel Medtronic 5
#9 Sandra K. Nowak 3M 5
#9 Serkan Yurt 3M 5
#12 Thomas J. Brace 3M 4
#12 Paul Huelskamp Cardiac Pacemakers 4
#12 Jessica L. Staude 3M 4
#12 Edward E. Parsonage St. Jude Medical Puerto Rico 4
#12 Corinne E. Lipscomb 3M 4
#12 Jeffrey Freeland Nelson 4
#18 Katherine R. Wittenberg Target Brands 3
#18 Julia A. Neuman St. Jude Medical 3
#18 Timothy G. Badar Commscope Technologies 3
#18 Peter Anderson Honeywell 3
#18 Kristin Renee Helle Shardlow Medtronic 3
#18 Belma Erdogan-Haug 3M 3
#18 Aaron M. Bowser Seagate Technology 3
#18 Catherine M. Verfaillie University of Minnesota 3
#18 Louis M. Holzman 3
#18 Karl J. L. Geisler 3M 3
#18 Richard P. Merry 3M 3
#18 Robert L. Assell Trans1 3
#18 Henry L. Carbone, II Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 3
#18 Brent Velenchenko Tenacious Holdings 3
#18 Scott Kimmel Greatbatch 3
#18 John Quackenbush Rotation Medical 3
#18 Craig Stolen Cardiac Pacemakers 3
#18 Fusu Thao 3M 3
#18 Justin A. Riddle 3M 3
#18 John J. Rogers 3M 3
#18 Joshua P. Magnuson Ecolab Usa 3
#39 Christopher K. Haas 3M 2
#39 Paul A. Burgio 3M 2
#39 Karl E. Benson 3M 2
#39 Keith L. Doty Veritas Technologies 2
#39 Terry Erickson Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. 2
#39 Derek Savela Horton 2
#39 Timothy A. Bachman Ultimed 2
#39 Thomas J. Gilbert 3M 2
#39 Zhengrong Zhou St. Jude Medical Puerto Rico 2
#39 Leif Christensen 3M 2
#39 Mark MacGregor Surmodics 2
#39 Carlos Carbonera Jostens 2

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