Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Woodbury, MN ranks #173 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 685 patents from 311 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Woodbury, MN include 3M, Cardiac Pacemakers, Ethyl. That works out to 9.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 311 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Stephen C. P. Joseph 3M 15
2 Pramodsingh Hirasingh Thakur Cardiac Pacemakers 14
3 Jason S. Lind 3M 10
#4 Zai-Ming Qiu 3M 9
#4 Moses M. David 3M 9
#6 Stephen A. Johnson 3M 8
#6 Martin B. Wolk 3M 8
#8 Ta-Hua Yu 3M 7
#8 Alexander J. Kugel 3M 7
#8 Steven T. Awiszus 3M 7
#8 Hae-Seung Lee 3M 7
#8 Audrey A. Sherman 3M 7
#8 Robert J. Sweeney Cardiac Pacemakers 7
#14 Joseph D. Rule 3M 6
#14 Kim R. Smith Ethyl 6
#14 Dominic J. Julian 3M 6
#14 Nicolas A. Echeverri 3M 6
#14 Myungchan Kang 3M 6
#14 Raghunath Padiyath 3M 6
#14 Ang Xiao BOE 6
#14 Matthew T. Scholz 3M 6
#14 Bruce E. Tait 3M 6
#23 Mark T. Anderson 3M 5
#23 Li Wen Ecolab Usa 5
#23 Richard Y. Liu 3M 5
#23 Robert L. Brott 3M 5
#23 Mary A. Antonysamy Biothera 5
#23 Ying Zhang Toyota 5
#23 Jitendra S. Rathore 3M 5
#23 Michael J. Sherman Kx Technologies 5
#23 Keith B. Gorden Biothera 5
#23 Jayshree Seth 3M 5
#23 Suresh S. Iyer 3M 5
#23 Miguel A. Guerra 3M 5
#35 Junkang J. Liu 3M 4
#35 Scott A. Burton 3M 4
#35 Dwight D. Erickson 3M 4
#35 Amanda C. Engler IBM 4
#35 Philip C. Dretzka Interdesign 4
#35 Craig R. Schardt 3M 4
#35 Scott T. Mazar Cardiac Pacemakers 4
#35 Brock A. Hable 3M 4
#35 James Drost Smiths Medical Asd 4
#35 Evan Koon Lun Yuuji Hajime 3M 4
#35 Jason T. Petrin 3M 4
#35 Catherine A. Leatherdale 3M 4
#35 Kevin R. Schaffer 3M 4
#35 Erik R. Klimpel Kx Technologies 4
#35 Yongshang Lu 3M 4
#50 Babu N. Gaddam 3M 3

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