Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Excelsior, MN ranks #1,183 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 115 patents from 30 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Excelsior, MN include Cambria Company, Seagate Technology, Covidien Lp. That works out to 48.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–30 of 30 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Martin E. Davis Cambria Company 40
2 Edward Charles Gage Seagate Technology 19
3 Richard S. Kusleika Covidien Lp 9
#4 Himanshu Khurana Honeywell 6
#5 Sethuraman Jayashankar Seagate Technology 3
#5 Gale Nordling Emprimus 3
#5 Harold A. Roberts Adc Telecommunications 3
#5 Fred C. Sittler Rosemount 3
#5 David Blake Jackson Emprimus 3
#10 Beth Mastel Cargill, Incorporated 2
#10 Yong K. Cho Medtronic 2
#10 James Nicholas Ruehl Emprimus 2
#10 James A. Alexander Boston Scientific Scimed 2
#10 Jeanette Huryta Cargill, Incorporated 2
#15 Khoi Le 1
#15 Jeffrey J. Peters 1
#15 Carmen Miller Seasonal Specialties 1
#15 Jill Louise Zullo Cargill, Incorporated 1
#15 Ralph Paul Stillman Twist-Ease 1
#15 Christopher G. Wolf Polaris Industries 1
#15 Michael Joseph Voight Eaton 1
#15 Kevin L. Siefering Fsi International 1
#15 Todd Rowe Boston Scientific Scimed 1
#15 J. Donald Knight 1
#15 Yong K. Cho 1
#15 Eric Scott Olson Cambria Company 1
#15 Grant Leum Leum Engineering 1
#15 Robert A. Van Tassel Backbeat Medical 1
#15 Jayant Parthasarathy Nonin Medical 1
#15 James E. Retterath Facet Technology 1

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