Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Belgrade, MT ranks #5,447 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 476 patents from 131 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Belgrade, MT include Vista Outdoor Operations, Trophy Ridge, IBM. That works out to 45.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 131 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Christopher J. Michael Vista Outdoor Operations 47
2 Daniel D. Sereday Vista Outdoor Operations 39
3 Christopher A. Rager Trophy Ridge 28
#4 William John Martin IBM 25
#5 Jay Wilkins Electro Scientific Industries 18
#6 William T. Tino Takeda Vaccines 17
#7 Luke Mauritsen Montana Instruments 16
#8 Gary Eugene Schaefer Philips 10
#8 Wade Wolf Sunrise Medical Hhg 10
#10 Marcus Alton Teter RTX (Raytheon) 9
#11 Helena Lovick Bacterin International 8
#11 Antonije R. Djordjevic Teradvance Communications 8
#11 Kevin D. Miller Schlage Lock Company 8
#14 Daniel Cox Bacterin International 7
#14 Brad Wright Inventit Products 7
#16 Dragi Antonijevic Visteon Global Technologies 6
#16 Timothy Dean Nec Electronics 6
#18 Bogdan Radakovic Microsoft 5
#18 Kurtis J. Sparing Alliant Techsystems 5
#18 Torence P. Brogan RTX (Raytheon) 5
#18 John A. Bognar 5
#22 Jeffrey Vern Meuli Dwyer Instruments 4
#22 Toby F. Naylor Igt 4
#22 Randa W. Wytcherley Glitsch 4
#22 Kurtis McCauley Mesa Laboratories 4
#22 Christopher M. Major Montana State University 4
#22 Stephen William Ayres The Boeing 4
#22 Rusty J. Noyes 4
#29 Vujo I. Miljevic 3
#29 Petar Belicev New Cardio 3
#29 Aleksandar Despic 3
#29 Alex Tenenbaum 3
#29 John Kuhling Watts And Associates 3
#29 Matt Bentle Simms Fishing Products 3
#29 Dwayne Oliverson Simms Fishing Products 3
#29 Kenneth Frank DeBoer 3
#29 Steven Oltrogge New Wave Research 3
#29 Lawrence E. Ferguson Gibson Guitar 3
#29 Jovan Hranisavljevic Vdf Futureceuticals 3
#29 Milorad Jovanovic HP 3
#29 Larry Calvin 3
#29 Nicholas Spain Mesa Laboratories 3
#29 Scott Feddes 3
#29 Ross M. Walker Stanford University 3
#45 David Nickson Unknown 2
#45 Jovan M. Nedelijkovic Argonne National Laboratory 2
#45 David C. Uthoff 2
#45 Chris Michaels Alliant Techsystems 2
#45 Dusan Vucelic 2
#45 Bill Wynn 2

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