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Bloomington, MN 2021

186 patents  ·  113 inventors  ·  2.1/1k pop.

Ranked #776 of 43,435 cities Top 2%

Bloomington, MN ranks #776 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 186 patents from 113 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Bloomington, MN include Thermo King, Commscope Technologies, Donaldson Company. That works out to 2.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 113 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Ryan Wayne Schumacher Thermo King 10
2 Erik J. Gronvall Commscope Technologies 7
2 Benny K. Nelson Donaldson Company 7
#4 Gilles Walch Tornier Sas 6
#4 Pascal Boileau Tornier Sas 6
#6 Mikhail L. Pekurovsky 3M 5
#7 Thomas Lundgren Donaldson Company 4
#7 Andrew Stockinger Pearson Education 4
#9 Matthew S. Stay 3M 3
#9 Paul R. Haugen Cyberoptics 3
#9 Daniel E. Adamek Donaldson Company 3
#9 Andrew David Habermas Seagate Technology 3
#9 Andrew John Blaylock Visyn 3
#14 John P. Azure The Toro 2
#14 Steven C. Nordberg Pearson Education 2
#14 Sheldon Anderson Donaldson Company 2
#14 Justin Brons Seagate Technology 2
#14 Paul K. Scheper Shuffle Master 2
#14 Suresh Laxman Shenoy Donaldson Company 2
#14 Ed F. Rejda Seagate Technology 2
#14 David L. Miller Medtronic 2
#14 Dong Xue Starkey Laboratories 2
#14 Michael J. Campbell Eaton Intelligent Power Limited 2
#14 Kamran Jamshidi Siteimprove A/S 2
#14 Christopher Fuller Alliant Techsystems 2
#14 Jacob Sloat Micron 2
#14 David Rickheim Pacesetter 2
#14 Nathan L. Schlueter Core Distribution 2
#14 Steven N. Willard — 2
#14 Brian T. Stolz Medtronic 2
#14 Gregory Reichter Donaldson Company 2
#14 Jeffrey James Martell Phillips & Temro Industries 2
#14 Eric Graham Ruggles Phillips & Temro Industries 2
#14 William J. Krisko Donaldson Company 2
#14 Brian Beech Entrust Datacard 2
#36 Steve A. Lewis Intervet 1
#36 Ryan P. Salsman Chips Unlimited 1
#36 Glenn M. Tom Advanced Technology & Materials Co. 1
#36 Jason A. Tiffany Donaldson Company 1
#36 Steven D. Schmeichel Donaldson Company 1
#36 Matthew W. Lorence — 1
#36 Lynn A. Winter — 1
#36 Stephen Joseph Sartori The Toro 1
#36 Edwin F. Rejda Seagate Technology 1
#36 Steven Lewis Establishment Labs S.A. 1
#36 Yung N. NGUYEN Olympus 1
#36 Jeffrey A. Levine University of Minnesota 1
#36 Jennifer Walsh Bank of America 1
#36 Jon Gregory Hendrickson Hewlett Packard Enterprise 1
#36 William B. Krueger Rosemount Aerospace 1

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