Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Eagan, MN ranks #831 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 177 patents from 99 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Eagan, MN include Seagate Technology, Ohc Ip Holdings, Interrad Medical. That works out to 2.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 99 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Michael C. Kautzky Seagate Technology 8
1 James A. Mitlyng Ohc Ip Holdings 8
3 Michael S. Rosenberg Interrad Medical 7
#4 Peter Dietz Siemens Aktiengesellschaft 6
#5 Thomas Miller Donaldson Company 4
#5 Mark G. Gritter Tintri By Ddn 4
#5 George W. Griesgraber 3M 4
#5 Jonathan Bennett Shute Cardiac Pacemakers 4
#5 Andrew Oliverius 4
#5 Thor A. Olson Electronics For Imaging 4
#5 Craig L. Schmidt Medtronic 4
#5 Bradley S. Swehla Boston Scientific Scimed 4
#5 Mark D. Leasure Thermo King 4
#14 Scott Nelson Joovv 3
#14 Bernard Fritz Honeywell 3
#14 Andrew T. Kline Micro Motion 3
#14 Niandong Liu Apton Biosystems 3
#14 Karl K. Stensvad 3M 3
#14 Joseph T. Pesik Rosemount Aerospace 3
#20 Vladimir Kladnitsky Donaldson Company 2
#20 Scott Wigen Rosemount Aerospace 2
#20 David A. Murray The Toro 2
#20 George Runger Ergotron 2
#20 Andrew James Carlson Stratasys 2
#20 Peter Voss Ecolab Usa 2
#20 Daniel J. Garry University of Minnesota 2
#20 Michael J. Surma Lifetouch 2
#20 Erik Jacobson Hewlett Packard Enterprise 2
#20 Uma S. Valeti Egg Medical 2
#20 Justin Wayne Magnusen Marvin Lumber And Cedar Company 2
#20 Daniel C. Bissell Winfield Solutions 2
#20 Corneliu Boac Hewlett Packard Enterprise 2
#20 Colleen M. Dolan Pearson Education 2
#34 Craig A. Dowd General Mills 1
#34 Muhammad Asad Lodhi Mitsubishi Electric 1
#34 James Michael Haire Efunds 1
#34 Ronald Rezachek Service Ideas 1
#34 Rudy Padua St. Teresa Medical 1
#34 Thomas P. Hedblom 3M 1
#34 Mandapati V. Ramakrishnam Raju University of Minnesota 1
#34 Lisa Workin Hartford Fire Insurance 1
#34 Ed Turin Multifeeder Technology 1
#34 Aaron Curtis Red Devil Equipment 1
#34 Carlos P. Sosa IBM 1
#34 Todd LANGE Viavi Solutions 1
#34 Stephen W. Osmonson Cummins Power Generation 1
#34 Regina Hepp 1
#34 Robert D. Hamann 3M 1
#34 Ehren R. Jarosek Renovo Software 1
#34 Jeff Arvidson Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre Gmbh 1

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