Idaho ranks #29 among US states for total patents filed in 2020, with 2,923 patents from 1,182 inventors across 77 cities. On a per-capita basis that is 1.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a standard benchmark for comparing state-level R&D intensity.
Top Cities in Idaho 2020
| Rank | City | Patents | Inventors |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Boise, ID | 1,821 | 609 |
| #2 | Meridian, ID | 264 | 99 |
| #3 | Eagle, ID | 98 | 50 |
| #4 | Coeur d'Alene, ID | 98 | 32 |
| #5 | Nampa, ID | 95 | 37 |
| #6 | Idaho Falls, ID | 69 | 52 |
| #7 | Pocatello, ID | 49 | 32 |
| #8 | Troy, ID | 46 | 30 |
| #9 | Twin Falls, ID | 35 | 23 |
| #10 | Kuna, ID | 24 | 15 |
| #11 | Hayden, ID | 19 | 7 |
| #12 | Rexburg, ID | 19 | 12 |
| #13 | Sandpoint, ID | 19 | 11 |
| #14 | Burley, ID | 18 | 16 |
| #15 | Caldwell, ID | 15 | 10 |
| #16 | Emmett, ID | 13 | 3 |
| #17 | Ketchum, ID | 13 | 10 |
| #18 | Rathdrum, ID | 12 | 4 |
| #19 | Dixie, ID | 11 | 1 |
| #20 | Ammon, ID | 11 | 8 |
| #21 | Shelley, ID | 10 | 8 |
| #22 | Soda Springs, ID | 10 | 1 |
| #23 | Orofino, ID | 9 | 6 |
| #24 | Middleton, ID | 8 | 5 |
| #25 | Garden City, ID | 8 | 4 |
Top Inventors in Idaho 2020
| Rank | Inventor | City | Company | Patents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenneth Lyle Tyler | Coeur d'Alene | Continuous Composites | 34 |
| 2 | Durai Vishak Nirmal Ramaswamy | Boise | Micron | 30 |
| 3 | Peter Reisen | Nampa | Forage Genetics International | 29 |
| #4 | Richard C. Murphy | Boise | Micron | 26 |
| #4 | Fabio Pellizzer | Boise | Micron | 26 |
| #6 | Gurtej S. Sandhu | Boise | Micron | 25 |
| #7 | Haitao Liu | Boise | Micron | 23 |
| #8 | Scott J. Derner | Boise | Micron | 22 |
| #9 | Glen E. Hush | Boise | Micron | 21 |
| #10 | Christopher John Kawamura | Boise | Micron | 20 |
| #10 | John D. Hopkins | Meridian | Micron | 20 |
| #12 | Jian Li | Boise | Micron | 19 |
| #13 | Scott E. Sills | Boise | Micron | 17 |
| #14 | Dean D. Gans | Nampa | Micron | 16 |
| #15 | Jaspreet S. Gandhi | Boise | Micron | 15 |
| #15 | Charles L. Ingalls | Meridian | Micron | 15 |
| #15 | Yushi Hu | Boise | Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. | 15 |
| #15 | Wei Zhou | Boise | Micron | 15 |
| #19 | Peter Feeley | Boise | Micron | 14 |
| #19 | Rajasekhar Venigalla | Boise | IBM | 14 |
| #19 | Sanh D. Tang | Boise | Micron | 14 |
| #19 | Marco Sforzin | Boise | Micron | 14 |
| #19 | Yuan He | Boise | Micron | 14 |
| #24 | George B. Raad | Boise | Micron | 13 |
| #24 | David Aaron Palmer | Boise | Micron | 13 |