Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Maple Grove, MN ranks #297 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 438 patents from 218 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Maple Grove, MN include Medtronic, St. Jude Medical, Atrial Fibrillation Division, Cardiac Pacemakers. That works out to 6.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 218 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Martin T. Gerber Medtronic 24
2 Huisun Wang St. Jude Medical, Atrial Fibrillation Division 14
3 Bruce H. KenKnight Cardiac Pacemakers 11
#4 James D. Reinke Medtronic 10
#5 Yi-Ching Chen Zhejiang Super Lighting Electric Appliance Co. 9
#5 David B. Lura Medtronic 9
#7 Krzysztof Z. Siejko Cardiac Pacemakers 8
#7 Venugopal Allavatam Cameron Health 8
#9 Kavitha Ganesan Caisson Interventional 7
#10 SuPing Lyu Medtronic 6
#10 Justin M. Crank Boston Scientific Scimed 6
#12 Jianhua Xue Seagate Technology 5
#12 Daniel Youngner Honeywell 5
#12 Donald J. Kasprzyk Honeywell 5
#12 Troy T. White St. Jude Medical Puerto Rico 5
#12 Stacy Abel Target Brands 5
#12 Aashiish Agnihotri Smith & Nephew 5
#12 Thomas Scott Breidenbach Adaptive Aerodynamic 5
#12 Hong Cao St. Jude Medical, Atrial Fibrillation Division 5
#20 Jessica L. Roll Ams Research 4
#20 Aleksandre T. Sambelashvili Medtronic 4
#20 Juan Gabriel Hincapie Ordonez 4
#20 Sidney A. Higgins Starkey Laboratories 4
#20 Cyril J. Schweich, Jr. Myocor 4
#20 Rajeev M. Sahasrabudhe Medtronic 4
#20 Jeffrey S. Lindquist Boston Scientific Scimed 4
#20 Scott W. Hayden Medtronic 4
#28 Arnie Kalla Honeywell 3
#28 Paul M. Krueger Mts Systems 3
#28 Jonathon E. Giftakis Medtronic 3
#28 John Wolf Seagate Technology 3
#28 Edward Anderson Fastwave Medical 3
#28 Cory Grabinger Honeywell 3
#28 Michael S. Hemry Caterpillar 3
#28 Andrea J. Asleson Medtronic 3
#28 Jacob Lamb Rockwell Automation 3
#28 Mark E. Turpin Cummins Power Generation 3
#28 Scott R. Stubbs Cardiac Pacemakers 3
#28 Daniel R. Johnson Uop 3
#40 Joshua Jacque Edberg Knox Associates 2
#40 John Blix Boston Scientific Scimed 2
#40 Carlos A. Davila Decopac 2
#40 Brooke Ren Scimed Life Systems 2
#40 Pankaj Gupta Netlogic Microsystems 2
#40 Christopher Busch Experian Health 2
#40 Graig L. Kveen Boston Scientific Scimed 2
#40 Gordon Cameron Muir Tescom 2
#40 Jean M. Bobgan Cardiac Pacemakers 2
#40 Vinod Sharma Intel 2
#40 Al Powers Lwe 2

Part of Minnesota