Idaho ranks #26 among US states for total patents filed in 2021, with 3,205 patents from 1,226 inventors across 76 cities. On a per-capita basis that is 1.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a standard benchmark for comparing state-level R&D intensity.
Top Cities in Idaho 2021
| Rank | City | Patents | Inventors |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Boise, ID | 2,147 | 667 |
| #2 | Meridian, ID | 249 | 109 |
| #3 | Idaho Falls, ID | 114 | 78 |
| #4 | Eagle, ID | 91 | 44 |
| #5 | Nampa, ID | 90 | 41 |
| #6 | Coeur d'Alene, ID | 76 | 28 |
| #7 | Troy, ID | 73 | 32 |
| #8 | Twin Falls, ID | 36 | 20 |
| #9 | Pocatello, ID | 34 | 29 |
| #10 | Kuna, ID | 30 | 12 |
| #11 | Hayden, ID | 17 | 8 |
| #12 | Rexburg, ID | 16 | 8 |
| #13 | Sandpoint, ID | 16 | 10 |
| #14 | Ammon, ID | 13 | 9 |
| #15 | Caldwell, ID | 10 | 8 |
| #16 | Burley, ID | 10 | 6 |
| #17 | Rathdrum, ID | 8 | 4 |
| #18 | Inkom, ID | 8 | 1 |
| #19 | Garden City, ID | 8 | 3 |
| #20 | Ketchum, ID | 8 | 7 |
| #21 | Paul, ID | 8 | 2 |
| #22 | Lewiston, ID | 7 | 6 |
| #23 | Hayden Lake, ID | 7 | 1 |
| #24 | Sagle, ID | 6 | 3 |
| #25 | Wilder, ID | 6 | 1 |
Top Inventors in Idaho 2021
| Rank | Inventor | City | Company | Patents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Durai Vishak Nirmal Ramaswamy | Boise | Micron | 32 |
| 2 | Haitao Liu | Boise | Micron | 31 |
| 3 | Richard C. Murphy | Boise | Micron | 28 |
| 3 | Kenneth Lyle Tyler | Coeur d'Alene | Continuous Composites | 28 |
| #5 | Peter Feeley | Boise | Micron | 25 |
| #5 | Scott J. Derner | Boise | Micron | 25 |
| #5 | Vijay S. Ramesh | Boise | Micron | 25 |
| #8 | Fabio Pellizzer | Boise | Micron | 23 |
| #9 | Dean D. Gans | Nampa | Micron | 22 |
| #9 | Gurtej S. Sandhu | Boise | Micron | 22 |
| #11 | Christopher John Kawamura | Boise | Micron | 19 |
| #11 | Michael A. Smith | Boise | Micron | 19 |
| #11 | John D. Hopkins | Meridian | Micron | 19 |
| #11 | Sanh D. Tang | Boise | Micron | 19 |
| #11 | Giuseppe Cariello | Boise | Micron | 19 |
| #16 | Kamal M. Karda | Boise | Micron | 18 |
| #16 | James S. Rehmeyer | Boise | Micron | 18 |
| #16 | Scott E. Sills | Boise | Micron | 18 |
| #16 | Yuan He | Boise | Micron | 18 |
| #20 | David Aaron Palmer | Boise | Micron | 17 |
| #20 | Thomas H. Kinsley | Boise | Micron | 17 |
| #20 | Glen E. Hush | Boise | Micron | 17 |
| #23 | Jonathan S. Parry | Boise | Micron | 16 |
| #23 | Aaron P. Boehm | Boise | Micron | 16 |
| #25 | Charles L. Ingalls | Meridian | Micron | 15 |