Top Inventors in Rochester, MN — 2021

Rochester, MN ranks #124 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 1,064 patents from 462 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Rochester, MN include IBM, Oshkosh, Mayo Foundation. That works out to 8.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 462 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Eric V. Kline	IBM	35
2	Eric J. Campbell	IBM	24
3	John M. Santosuosso	IBM	23
#4	Scott B. King	IBM	18
#4	Jason A. Nikolai	IBM	18
#6	Sarah K. Czaplewski-Campbell	IBM	16
#7	John R. Dangler	IBM	15
#8	David M. Koster	IBM	14
#9	Timothy J. Tofil	IBM	13
#10	Sarah K. Czaplewski	IBM	12
#10	Jim C. Chen	IBM	12
#12	Joshua D. Rocholl	Oshkosh	11
#13	Zachary L. Klein	Oshkosh	10
#13	David A. Ahlquist	Mayo Foundation	10
#13	Douglas W. Mahoney	Mayo Foundation	10
#16	John E. Petri	IBM	9
#16	Michael J. Branson	IBM	9
#16	Alexander Cook	IBM	9
#16	Paul E. Schardt	IBM	9
#16	Niranjay Ravindran	Western Digital Technologies	9
#16	Jingdong Sun	IBM	9
#22	Samuel J. Asirvatham	Mayo Foundation	8
#22	Lance G. Thompson	IBM	8
#22	Richard Leo Galbraith	Western Digital Technologies	8
#22	Joseph W. Cropper	IBM	8
#26	Gerald K. Bartley	IBM	7
#26	Darryl J. Becker	IBM	7
#26	Jessica R. Eidem	IBM	7
#26	Daniel E. Beuch	IBM	7
#26	Mark K. Hoffmeyer	IBM	7
#26	Phillip V. Mann	IBM	7
#32	Thomas W. Liang	IBM	6
#32	Sandra J. Shirk/Heath	IBM	6
#32	Manuel Orozco	IBM	6
#32	John B. Kisiel	Mayo Foundation	6
#32	Emily Davis	Oshkosh	6
#32	Layne A. Berge	IBM	6
#32	Tracy C. Yab	Mayo Foundation	6
#32	William Paul Hovis	IBM	6
#40	Jeffrey K. Huebert	IBM	5
#40	Eric L. Erpenbach	IBM	5
#40	Christopher J. Engel	IBM	5
#40	Robert Edward Galbraith	IBM	5
#40	Jesse P. Arroyo	IBM	5
#40	Bruce D. Johnson	Enxl	5
#40	Chad A. Olstad	IBM	5
#40	Mark J. Jeanson	IBM	5
#48	William Jared Walker	Western Digital Technologies	4
#48	Paul A. Friedman	Mayo Foundation	4
#48	Kelvin D. Nilsen	IBM	4

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