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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Apple Valley, MN ranks #1,326 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 105 patents from 66 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Apple Valley, MN include Seagate Technology, Land O'Lakes, Veritas Technologies. That works out to 1.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 66 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Antoine Khoueir Seagate Technology 8
2 Joseph V. Burger Land O'Lakes 5
3 Aaron Christensen Veritas Technologies 4
3 Rameshkumar Balasubramanian Goodrich 4
3 David Adolphson Bby Solutions 4
3 Katherine L. Baldwin Boston Scientific Scimed 4
#7 Philip Edward Johnson Donaldson Company 3
#7 Nitsan Ben-Gal Nguyen AT&T 3
#7 Robert D. Carter Medovex 3
#7 Praveen Kotla Bby Solutions 3
#11 Andrew J. Hulstein Qa1 Precision Products 2
#11 Kent Landerholm Entrust 2
#11 Thomas Kukowski Dacomed Corportion 2
#11 Paul Dominic Christian Ecolab Usa 2
#11 Jason Butler Koberstine The Prophet 2
#11 Richard A. Kirchner Kx Technologies 2
#11 Ryan William Rasell The Prophet 2
#11 Jeff Sims Rotation Medical 2
#19 Tyler S. Matthews 3M 1
#19 Greg Voss Zoll Medical 1
#19 Douglas A. Peterson Medtronic 1
#19 Michael D. Finch Metselex 1
#19 Nathan WODARZ 1
#19 Gregory B. Hayes Valspar Sourcing 1
#19 Robert Erko Sleep Number 1
#19 Cheryl A. Littau Ecolab Usa 1
#19 Andrew H. Hansen US Dept of Veterans Affairs 1
#19 Michael J. Franklin Adc Telecommunications 1
#19 Nathan D. Peitersen Ecolab Usa 1
#19 Paul S. Tyler Seagate Technology 1
#19 Craig Martin Gregersen 1
#19 Tyler Kistner 1
#19 Wenzhong Zhu Seagate Technology 1
#19 Stephen D. Rock Rosemount Aerospace 1
#19 Keith Sylvan Diekmann 1
#19 Kurt LeRoy Erickson Seagate Technology 1
#19 Keith E. Olson 1
#19 Carlos Ricci Cardiac Pacemakers 1
#19 Kevin Lamber Mayer Seagate Technology 1
#19 Tyler J. Abrahamson Target Brands 1
#19 Eugene H. Carlson 3M 1
#19 David Stewart Skibbe Syngenta Participations Ag 1
#19 Jason Piehl Zimmer Spine 1
#19 Aaron Wesser Rosemount Aerospace 1
#19 Kevin A. Wuebben Ecolab Usa 1
#19 William D. Hachfeld Vital Images 1
#19 Marcelo Alves De Moraes Robert Bosch Gmbh 1
#19 Shuiyuan Huang Seagate Technology 1
#19 Avinash Bhatnagar Target Brands 1
#19 Varma Laxmi Jagannadha Siva Kumara Jampana Upaid Systems 1

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