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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Big Sky, MT ranks #12,764 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 137 patents from 4 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Big Sky, MT include Gopro, Linwood Resources, Rightnow Technologies. That works out to 38.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–4 of 4 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Nicholas D. Woodman Gopro 128
2 David R. Cleveland Linwood Resources 5
3 Bikramjit Banerjee Rightnow Technologies 2
3 Macgregor L. Fogelsong Yellowstone Environmental Science 2

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