Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

St. Louis Park, MN ranks #935 worldwide for total patents filed in 2020, with 165 patents from 101 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in St. Louis Park, MN include 3M, K2M, Medtronic. That works out to 3.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 101 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Georgiy Teverovskiy 3M 6
1 Brandon Moore K2M 6
3 Charles Tabor Medtronic 5
3 Ronald A. Drake Medtronic 5
#5 David D. Scott Intuitive Surgical 4
#5 Alexander Chinhak Chong Chong 4
#5 Stephen Whitlow Honeywell 4
#5 Paul G. Schwendinger Honeywell 4
#9 Emily Rolfes Meyering Minnetronix 3
#9 Joram Slager Surmodics 3
#9 Eric Chartier Architecture Technology 3
#9 Thomas D. Raether Donaldson Company 3
#9 Mark Krans 3
#9 Alexander N. Reid Rosemount Aerospace 3
#9 Thomas J. Dahlin 3M 3
#9 Jay Edward Tolle Eaton Intelligent Power Limited 3
#9 Wayne R. W. Bishop Donaldson Company 3
#18 Richard A. Thompson, II Gyrus Acmi 2
#18 Kala Marie Kaspar Societe Des Produits Nestle S.A. 2
#18 Justin Theodore Nelson University of Minnesota 2
#18 Peter Alan Jacobs Bridgepoint Medical 2
#18 Bruce Edward Frohman 2
#18 Kyle Olson Starkey Laboratories 2
#18 Eric Joseph Dille Normedix 2
#18 Frank S. Bates University of Minnesota 2
#18 Christine Werner Seasonal Specialties 2
#18 Thomas Howard Burns Starkey Laboratories 2
#18 Bryan James Sarkinen Antares Pharma 2
#18 Takatoshi Takigawa Daikin Applied Americas 2
#18 Mark J. Conroy Medtronic 2
#18 Anthony Rath 2
#18 Michele Wolf General Mills 2
#18 Mehmet Fatih Erden Seagate Technology 2
#34 Eric Bargman Unitedhealth Group Incorporated 1
#34 Gary Opperman Surmodics 1
#34 Michael W. Johnson Owens Corning Intellectual Capital 1
#34 Andy Freeman Fortus Medical 1
#34 Christine Arradondo Target Brands 1
#34 Aaron Hertzel Jagoda Eaton 1
#34 James John Lupino Tacho Holdings 1
#34 Neil Petrie Micron 1
#34 Thomas Stoddard Cellectis 1
#34 Elizabeth A. Fehrmann Medtronic 1
#34 Evan J. Ribnick 3M 1
#34 Mary-Claire Anderson Boston Scientific Scimed 1
#34 Mark J. Osborn University of Minnesota 1
#34 Daniel Khalitov Twin City Fan Companies 1
#34 Karla M Fuentes General Mills 1
#34 Brian Andrew Rappl Schlage Lock Company 1
#34 James L. Evavold 1

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