Top Inventors in Apple Valley, MN

Apple Valley, MN ranks #1,139 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 2,943 patents from 500 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Apple Valley, MN include Seagate Technology, Donaldson Company, Arc Devices Limited. That works out to 52.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 500 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Wenzhong Zhu	Seagate Technology	102
2	Keith E. Olson	—	86
3	Wayne M. Wagner	Donaldson Company	85
#4	Michael Cronin	Arc Devices Limited	77
#5	Paul R. Kraus	Ecolab Usa	72
#6	Antoine Khoueir	Seagate Technology	67
#7	Joseph A. Marino	Cardia	59
#8	Rick C. Stevens	Lockheed Martin	56
#9	Robert J. Crawford	Strategic Design Federation W	50
#10	Carlos Ricci	Cardiac Pacemakers	47
#11	Vincent E. Splett	Medtronic	46
#12	Bryan J. Root	Celadon Systems	44
#13	Kelly M. Orth	Rosemount	41
#14	Andrew H. Hansen	US Dept of Veterans Affairs	37
#14	Joseph C. Tokar	Donaldson Company	37
#16	Cheryl A. Littau	Ecolab Usa	36
#17	Philip Edward Johnson	Donaldson Company	35
#18	Farhad Nourbakhsh	Bby Solutions	30
#19	Michael R. Jones	Rmc Jones	29
#20	James R. McGhie	American Heavy Moving & Rigging	28
#21	Robert Erko	Sleep Number	27
#22	Steven John Gort	Cargill, Incorporated	26
#22	Bruce E. Schmidt	Ecolab Usa	26
#24	Nathan D. Peitersen	Ecolab Usa	25
#24	Rameshkumar Balasubramanian	Goodrich	25
#26	Chad A. Haraldson	3M	24
#26	Robert D. Carter	Medovex	24
#26	Curtis Lee Puetz	Adc Telecommunications	24
#29	James A. Odom	Honeywell	23
#30	Richard A. Kirchner	Kx Technologies	22
#31	Stanley E. Swirhun	Picolight Incorporated	21
#32	Michael J. Franklin	Adc Telecommunications	18
#33	Joseph V. Burger	Land O'Lakes	17
#34	Greg Voss	Zoll Medical	16
#34	Christopher L. Hill	Seagate Technology	16
#34	William V. Block	Birchwood Laboratories	16
#37	Kevin J. Schulz	Seagate Technology	15
#37	Jason Piehl	Zimmer Spine	15
#37	Paul Dominic Christian	Ecolab Usa	15
#37	Dennis Cronin	Rosemount Aerospace	15
#37	Aaron Christensen	Veritas Technologies	15
#42	Shuiyuan Huang	Seagate Technology	14
#42	Rodney K. Hehenberger	3M	14
#42	Eugene H. Carlson	3M	14
#42	Jeffrey A. Roberts	Capital One Services	14
#42	Paul S. Tyler	Seagate Technology	14
#47	Elliott Farber	Alwyn Company	13
#47	Gregory B. Hayes	Valspar Sourcing	13
#47	Mark A. Owen	Qlogic	13
#47	David P. Hanlon	Excelsior-Henderson Motorcycle Manufacturing	13

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