Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Blaine, MN ranks #699 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 203 patents from 98 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Blaine, MN include Cardiac Pacemakers, Rotation Medical, Medtronic. That works out to 2.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 98 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 David L. Perschbacher Cardiac Pacemakers 9
2 Nathaniel Zenz-Olson Rotation Medical 8
2 Subham Ghosh Medtronic 8
2 Rodolphe Katra Medtronic 8
2 Richard P. Riedel Target Brands 8
#6 Peter Andrew Crosby Mainstay Medical Limited 5
#6 Nicholas A. Pagano Graco Minnesota 5
#6 Ramesh Wariar Cardiac Pacemakers 5
#6 Benjamin Fruland Covidien Lp 5
#10 Brent A. Erspamer Polaris Industries 4
#10 Gregory F. Molnar Medtronic 4
#10 Karen J. Kleckner Medtronic 4
#10 Paul R. Solheim Medtronic 4
#10 John E. Burnes Medtronic 4
#15 Vincent P. Ganion Medtronic 3
#15 Anthony W. Swenson Blue Buffalo Enterpises 3
#15 Vladimir P. Nikolski Medtronic 3
#15 Stacy Stusynski Sleep Number 3
#15 Arthur J. Foster Cardiac Pacemakers 3
#15 Jeffrey Zimmerman Ecowater Systems 3
#15 John C. Oslund 3
#15 Lloyd Radman Boston Scientific Scimed 3
#23 Daniel J. Johnson Clearfield 2
#23 Randie Evenson Intercomp 2
#23 Shawn Michael Koop Stratasys 2
#23 Daniel C. Oster Medtronic 2
#23 Prashant Rawat Mainstay Medical Limited 2
#23 Trevor Thomas Spts Technologies Limited 2
#23 Jacob R. Whiteoak Graco Minnesota 2
#23 Steven P. Swanson 3M 2
#23 Bruce Allen Boehrs Donaldson Company 2
#23 Celeste L. Huster Torax Medical 2
#23 Jacob W. Silverberg Medtronic 2
#23 Ryan D. Carlson Polaris Industries 2
#23 Gregory Young Ademco 2
#23 Jean M. Carver Medtronic 2
#23 Jason A. Warns Indian Motorcycle International 2
#23 John S. Kroll Tundra Composites 2
#23 Cheng C. Vue Micro Motion 2
#23 Xin Chen Medtronic 2
#23 Timothy Lawrence Rubesch Boston Scientific Scimed 2
#23 Charles E. Peters Medtronic 2
#23 Thomas Schmidt Siemens Mobility Gmbh 2
#23 Jonathan D. Edmonson Medtronic 2
#45 Cassandra Ann Piippo Svendsen Cardio Flow 1
#45 Timothy M. Ramos Medtronic 1
#45 Linda L. Franke Medtronic 1
#45 Michael J. Svendsen 3M 1
#45 Charles Dolezalek Banner Engineering 1
#45 Adam Foley Ademco 1

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