Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Brandon, SD ranks #8,380 worldwide for total patents filed in 2020, with 11 patents from 6 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Brandon, SD include Poet Research, US Dept of the Interior, Amesbury Group. That works out to 1.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–6 of 6 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Steven G. Redford Poet Research 4
2 John L. Sternick US Dept of the Interior 3
3 Matt Halbersma Amesbury Group 1
3 James Vermeer 1
3 Todd Peterson Poet Research 1
3 Troy Larson Metabank 1

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