Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Windom, MN ranks #425 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 304 patents from 192 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Windom, MN include Stratasys, 3M, Cardiac Pacemakers. That works out to 63.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 192 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 William J. Swanson Stratasys 9
1 Michael Benton Free 3M 9
3 Justin A. Riddle 3M 8
#4 Paul Huelskamp Cardiac Pacemakers 6
#5 Joshua Thompson Thompson Brothers & Company 5
#5 Yin C. Quintero 3M 5
#7 Brent Velenchenko Tenacious Holdings 4
#7 Serkan Yurt 3M 4
#7 Benjamin A. Van Voorhis Service Ideas 4
#7 Catherine M. Verfaillie University of Minnesota 4
#11 Karl J. L. Geisler 3M 3
#11 Edward E. Parsonage St. Jude Medical Puerto Rico 3
#11 Carsten Franke 3M 3
#11 David L. Dingmann Ta Instruments-Waters 3
#11 Marina Brockway Cardiac Pacemakers 3
#11 Frank Schilder Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited 3
#11 Cass A. Hanson Boston Scientific Scimed 3
#11 Michael J. Link Seagate Technology 3
#11 Adam D. Miller 3M 3
#11 Joseph W. Woody, V 3M 3
#11 Thomas J. Gilbert 3M 3
#11 Britton G. Billingsley 3M 3
#11 John D. Morey Ecolab Usa 3
#11 Joshua P. Magnuson Ecolab Usa 3
#11 Samuel J. Carpenter 3M 3
#26 Timothy G. Badar Commscope Technologies 2
#26 Vivek Krishnan 3M 2
#26 Brian Brockway Vivaquant 2
#26 Meredith McMurdo Doyle 3M 2
#26 Arjun D. Sharma Cardiac Pacemakers 2
#26 Andrew W. Rabins 3M 2
#26 Rituparna Paul H.B. Fuller 2
#26 Susan M. Mairs Trane International 2
#26 Stephen J. Willett 3M 2
#26 Keith A. Miesel Medtronic 2
#26 George V. D. Tiers 3M 2
#26 Bernard A. Gonzalez 3M 2
#26 Robert L. Assell Trans1 2
#26 Henry L. Carbone, II Kimberly-Clark Worldwide 2
#26 Frederick P. LaPlant Perceptron 2
#26 Gregory Ernest Ostenson Boston Scientific Scimed 2
#26 Brian Halvorson Johnstech International 2
#26 Josiah Natan Wernow Seagate Technology 2
#26 David M. LaCroix Keystone Retaining Wall Systems 2
#26 Jeffrey Kirk The Smead Manufacturing 2
#26 Kok Chywn Chuang Commscope Technologies 2
#26 Todd P. Carpenter Adventium Enterprises 2
#26 Mary Johnson 2
#26 Timothy M. McGlinch St. Jude Medical Puerto Rico 2
#26 Mark MacGregor Surmodics 2

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