Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Shoreview, MN ranks #498 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 280 patents from 116 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Shoreview, MN include Cardiac Pacemakers, University of Minnesota, Medtronic. That works out to 10.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 116 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Qi An Cardiac Pacemakers 23
2 Jian-Ping Wang University of Minnesota 11
3 Yinghong Yu Cardiac Pacemakers 9
#4 Scott R. Stanslaski Medtronic 8
#4 Stephen J. Hahn Cardiac Pacemakers 8
#4 Viktoria A. Averina Cardiac Pacemakers 8
#4 Robert W. Stadler Medtronic 8
#4 Guy D. Joly 3M 8
#4 Xusheng Zhang Medtronic 8
#10 Sunipa Saha Cardiac Pacemakers 6
#10 Mina S. Fahim 6
#12 John J Fenske General Mills 5
#12 Donald G. Peterson 3M 5
#12 Michael Hoey Medtronic 5
#12 Dwight E. Nelson Medtronic 5
#12 Christopher M. Lange Graco Minnesota 5
#17 Daniel J. Horn Boston Scientific Scimed 4
#17 Mark McCaslin Forage Genetics International 4
#17 Devon N. Arnholt Cardiac Pacemakers 4
#17 Kent J. Smith 4
#17 Jian Cao Imperception 4
#22 David J. Yarusso 3M 3
#22 Paul Lemay Parker-Hannifin 3
#22 Howard D. Simms, Jr. Cardiac Pacemakers 3
#22 Julia A. Schraut St. Jude Medical 3
#22 Joseph M. Jeddeloh Micron 3
#22 Harry A. Puryear St. Jude Medical, Atrial Fibrillation Division 3
#22 Ryan Carlson Vivint 3
#22 Danli Wang 3M 3
#22 Ryan T. Fabick 3M 3
#31 Yiming Wu University of Minnesota 2
#31 Joe M. Jeddeloh Micron 2
#31 Catherine R. Condie Medtronic 2
#31 Thomas Alexander Glenn, III Land O'Lakes 2
#31 David John Edwardson Global Traffic Technologies 2
#31 Brian Joseph Perszyk 2
#31 Charles A. Marttila 3M 2
#31 Nathan L. Olson Medtronic 2
#31 Bryan J. Swackhamer Cardiac Pacemakers 2
#31 Saurav Paul St. Jude Medical, Atrial Fibrillation Division 2
#31 Sidney D. Nystrom Acist Medical Systems 2
#31 Brian E. Duncan 3M 2
#31 Brian Kronstedt Preventice Technologies 2
#31 Scott Williams GE 2
#31 Naoko Koyano University of Minnesota 2
#31 Andrew J. L. Steinbach 3M 2
#31 Frederick R. Quant Tsi Group Co. 2
#31 Steven D. Solomonson 3M 2
#31 Mark B. Knudson Enteromedics 2
#50 Robert J. Ziebol Icu Medical 1

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