Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Kalispell, MT ranks #1,478 worldwide for total patents filed in 2022, with 90 patents from 34 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Kalispell, MT include Emc Ip Holding Company, Semitool, Applied Materials. That works out to 3.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–34 of 34 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Philippe Armangau Emc Ip Holding Company 34
2 Eric J. Bergman Semitool 7
3 Kyle M. Hanson Semitool 6
#4 Gregory J. Wilson Applied Materials 4
#5 Paul R. McHugh Applied Materials 3
#6 Stephen Smith Imagine Communications 2
#6 Steven Davis Hennessy Industries 2
#6 Brock Adam Jahner Continuous Composites 2
#6 Paul Z. Wirth Applied Materials 2
#6 Walter L. Xu Sense Labs 2
#6 Timothy G. Stolt Applied Materials 2
#6 Rod Herrick Roddie 2
#13 Sam Lee Applied Materials 1
#13 Jason Rye Applied Materials 1
#13 John L. Klocke Applied Materials 1
#13 Huntley Stafford Ritter 1
#13 Darryl Byle Semitool 1
#13 Jerry D. Leonhard Applied Materials 1
#13 Stuart Crane Applied Materials 1
#13 Matthew Weber Netapp 1
#13 Robert Mikkola Applied Materials 1
#13 Cody R. Carter Zaf Energy Systems, Incorporated 1
#13 Deepak Saagar Kalaikadal Applied Materials 1
#13 Sean Barrett Zaf Energy Systems, Incorporated 1
#13 Mikael R. Borjesson Applied Materials 1
#13 Matthew Ambert Hartle 1
#13 Morgan Randall Norelius 1
#13 David P. Surdock Applied Materials 1
#13 Ryan D. Busse Kimber Ip 1
#13 Adam Marc McClure Applied Materials 1
#13 Nolan L. Zimmerman Applied Materials 1
#13 Joseph Antony Jonathan Applied Materials 1
#13 Kwan Wook Roh Applied Materials 1
#13 Michael Windham Applied Materials 1

Part of Montana