Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Excelsior, MN ranks #1,433 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 92 patents from 28 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Excelsior, MN include Cambria Company, Boston Scientific Scimed, Seagate Technology. That works out to 39.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–28 of 28 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Martin E. Davis Cambria Company 28
2 James A. Alexander Boston Scientific Scimed 10
3 Edward Charles Gage Seagate Technology 6
#4 Haven A. Mercer 5
#5 Richard S. Kusleika Covidien Lp 4
#5 Robert A. Van Tassel Backbeat Medical 4
#5 Grant Leum Leum Engineering 4
#8 James E. Retterath Facet Technology 3
#8 Sethuraman Jayashankar Seagate Technology 3
#8 Yong K. Cho Medtronic 3
#11 William Bert Nelson Minnesota Imaging And Engineering 2
#11 Harold A. Roberts Adc Telecommunications 2
#11 Alan A. Yelsey Unknown 2
#11 Khoi Le 2
#15 Gale Nordling Emprimus 1
#15 ERIC STEVEN CHILES 1
#15 James Nicholas Ruehl Emprimus 1
#15 Richard A. Nazarian 3M 1
#15 Scott V. Hanson Orbital Atk 1
#15 Holly Schissel Starkey Laboratories 1
#15 Jamie E. Retterath Facet Technology 1
#15 Kevin L. Siefering Fsi International 1
#15 Bruce S. Johnson Harsco 1
#15 Jeff Marshall Schley Products 1
#15 Robert F. Howat St. Jude Medical, Atrial Fibrillation Division 1
#15 Fred C. Sittler Rosemount 1
#15 David Blake Jackson Emprimus 1
#15 John Richard Thull University of Minnesota 1

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