Top Inventors in Burnsville, MN | Patent Leaderboard

Burnsville, MN ranks #1,042 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 3,258 patents from 632 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Burnsville, MN include Commscope Technologies, 3M, Boston Scientific Scimed. That works out to 50.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 632 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Joseph C. Coffey	Commscope Technologies	135
2	Scott R. Culler	3M	74
3	Mario A. Perez	3M	62
3	Martin R. Willard	Boston Scientific Scimed	62
#5	Michael W. Pfeiffer	Seagate Technology	58
#6	Nicholas A. Johnson	3M	44
#6	Peter Segar	Ergotron	44
#8	Mark Ray	Rosemount Aerospace	42
#9	Gregory S. Mowry	Seagate Technology	39
#10	Michael J. Gaboury	AMD	38
#11	Nicholas Hendrickson	Micron	37
#12	Patrick D. Hyde	3M	34
#13	Brian Cox	Novartis Ag	30
#14	James R. Newton	Starkey Laboratories	29
#15	Philip Cheung	Schlumberger Technology	28
#15	Gary J. Rocklitz	Donaldson Company	28
#17	Donald P. Sullivan	Xerox	27
#17	J. David Zook	Honeywell	27
#19	Scott Anderson	Commscope Technologies	26
#19	Lars I. Sjoholm	Thermo King	26
#21	Jeffrey A. Ridley	Honeywell	24
#22	Douglas G. Crofoot	Donaldson Company	23
#22	Bryan J. Beaulieu	Skyline Displays	23
#22	David R. Hennessy	Horton	23
#25	Deepak K. Pai	—	22
#25	John L. Brand	Seagate Technology	22
#25	David B. Harder	Donaldson Company	22
#28	Darrel Wegner	Donaldson Company	21
#28	Rhonda K. Schulz	—	21
#28	William D. Butterfield	Regalo International	21
#31	Curtis E. Quady	Royal Thoughts	20
#32	Alexander Gordon Barr	Cardiac Pacemakers	19
#33	Ryan Andrew Lloyd	Hand Held Products	18
#33	John R. B. Hall	Donaldson Company	18
#33	Rodney L. Clark	Mems Optical	18
#33	Alden R. Miles	3M	18
#33	Nicholas G. Amell	3M	18
#38	Kurt B. Joscher	Donaldson Company	17
#38	Matthew J. Hamilton	University of Minnesota	17
#40	William H. Scepanski	Sunburst Chemicals	16
#40	Joseph M. Gryskiewicz	Incisive Surgical	16
#40	Alan Pearson	Aluminum Company Of America	16
#40	Victor E. Kimball	Optical Sensors Incorporated	16
#40	Zhicheng Yang	Adc Telecommunications	16
#45	Stefan Ionescu	Seagate Technology	15
#45	Robert E. Chapin	Seagate Technology	15
#45	Christopher Ziolkowski	Gas Technology Institute	15
#45	A. Gordon Barr	Cardiac Pacemakers	15
#45	Rufus C. Sanders, Jr.	3M	15
#50	Donald B. Bennett	Lockheed Martin	14

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