Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Windom, MN ranks #567 worldwide for total patents filed in 2023, with 244 patents from 165 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Windom, MN include 3M, Trans1, Medtronic. That works out to 50.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 165 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Carsten Franke 3M 6
1 Robert L. Assell Trans1 6
3 Anthony M. Chasensky Medtronic 5
#4 Liting Zhang Toyota 4
#4 Noah O. Shanti 3M 4
#4 Max Carideo Graco Minnesota 4
#7 Emiliano Dall'Anese University of Minnesota 3
#7 Jacob D. Young 3M 3
#7 Mark A. Lukowski 3M 3
#7 Cass A. Hanson Boston Scientific Scimed 3
#7 David L. Dingmann Ta Instruments-Waters 3
#7 Uma S. VALETI Upside Foods 3
#7 Gregory M. Poynter Cargill, Incorporated 3
#7 Mark F. Ellis 3M 3
#7 Charles Girsch Pain Teq 3
#7 Timothy G. Badar Commscope Technologies 3
#7 Payam Khodaparast 3M 3
#7 Alexander J. Huffman 3M 3
#7 Nathaniel K. Naismith 3M 3
#7 Peter Anderson Honeywell 3
#21 Bryan J. Hayward 3M 2
#21 Christopher R. Yungers 3M 2
#21 Bathsheba E. Chong Conklin 3M 2
#21 Michael Benton Free 3M 2
#21 Zengyuan Liu Seagate Technology 2
#21 Moira B. Sweeney Cardiac Pacemakers 2
#21 Ernest L. Thurber 3M 2
#21 Vivek Krishnan 3M 2
#21 Thomas W. Floyd 3M 2
#21 Federica Sgolastra 3M 2
#21 Fazal Wala 2
#21 Sean Walbran Broadcom 2
#21 Hyacinth L. Lechuga 3M 2
#21 Jason Paul Johnson Donaldson Company 2
#21 Cable P. Thompson 2
#21 Ann R. Fornof 3M 2
#21 Mark Knudson Modern Fence Technologies 2
#21 Nicholas A. Asendorf 3M 2
#21 Van Willis Cline The Toro 2
#21 Paul A. Sobotka Medtronic 2
#21 Corinne E. Lipscomb 3M 2
#21 Scott A. Entenman Augustine Temperature Management 2
#21 William J. Swanson Stratasys 2
#21 Karl Hilde Starkey Laboratories 2
#21 Serkan Yurt 3M 2
#21 Adam D. Miller 3M 2
#21 Joseph Thomas Ippoliti University Of St. Thomas 2
#21 Jeffrey P. Kalish 3M 2
#49 Jayanth Panyam University of Minnesota 1
#49 Richard W. Greger 3M 1

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