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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Windom, MN ranks #395 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 364 patents from 264 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Windom, MN include 3M, Pearson Education, Cardiac Pacemakers. That works out to 75.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 264 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Christopher R. Yungers 3M 6
2 Jacob D. Young 3M 5
2 Carsten Franke 3M 5
#4 Thomas J. Gilbert 3M 4
#4 Fusu Thao 3M 4
#4 Ronald D. Lancaster, Jr. Pearson Education 4
#4 Nicholas A. Asendorf 3M 4
#4 Moira B. Sweeney Cardiac Pacemakers 4
#4 Charles Girsch Pain Teq 4
#4 Arjun D. Sharma Cardiac Pacemakers 4
#11 Carl E. Haugan Cyberoptics 3
#11 Michael Benton Free 3M 3
#11 Samuel J. Carpenter 3M 3
#11 Dan Knights Biota Technology 3
#11 Cass A. Hanson Boston Scientific Scimed 3
#11 Thomas J. Metzler 3M 3
#11 Karl Hilde Starkey Laboratories 3
#11 Robert L. Assell Trans1 3
#11 Jeffrey P. Kalish 3M 3
#11 Britton G. Billingsley 3M 3
#11 Craig Stolen Cardiac Pacemakers 3
#11 Karl E. Benson 3M 3
#11 John Quackenbush Rotation Medical 3
#11 Mitchell Nelson Xcerra 3
#11 Joshua Thompson Thompson Brothers & Company 3
#11 Gregory M. Poynter Cargill, Incorporated 3
#11 Carlos Carbonera Jostens 3
#11 Amy Jean Brisben Cardiac Pacemakers 3
#29 Fernando Di Caprio Medicalip Co. 2
#29 Marina Brockway Cardiac Pacemakers 2
#29 Tien Y. H. Whiting 3M 2
#29 Charlie P. Blackwell 3M 2
#29 Linnea Giles Alarm.Com Incorporated 2
#29 Marc Black Visa 2
#29 Ernest L. Thurber 3M 2
#29 Bryan J. Hayward 3M 2
#29 Mark F. Ellis 3M 2
#29 Susan M. Mairs Trane International 2
#29 Timothy G. Badar Commscope Technologies 2
#29 Matthew S. Whitten Donaldson Company 2
#29 William J. Swanson Stratasys 2
#29 Conor Quinn The Provost, Fellows, Foundation Scholars, And The Other Members Of Board, Of The College Of The Holy And Undivided Trinity Of Queen Elizabeth Near Dublin (Tcd) 2
#29 Brian Plourde Wts 2
#29 John J. Rogers 3M 2
#29 Derek M. Maanum 3M 2
#29 Döne Demirgöz 3M 2
#29 Ahmed Eldawy Microsoft 2
#29 Jennifer K. Schnobrich 3M 2
#29 Scott A. Entenman Augustine Temperature Management 2
#29 Max Carideo Graco Minnesota 2

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