Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Eagle, ID ranks #1,140 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 2,936 patents from 278 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Eagle, ID include Micron, Blackhawk Industries Product Group Unlimited, Evriholder Products. That works out to 96.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 278 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Dean A. Klein Micron 281
2 Kyle K. Kirby Micron 213
3 David A. Cathey Micron 199
#4 John K. Zahurak Micron 158
#5 Charles M. Watkins Micron 126
#6 Howard C. Kirsch Micron 120
#7 H. Montgomery Manning Micron 119
#8 William M. Hiatt Micron 118
#9 Perry V. Lea Micron 87
#10 Allen McTeer Micron 81
#11 James K. Bentley Blackhawk Industries Product Group Unlimited 76
#12 Everett A. McTeer Micron 65
#13 Christopher Anzalone Evriholder Products 59
#14 Richard D. Taylor Disney 33
#15 Stephen D. Allen Unlimited Water Solutions 31
#16 Karl H. Mauritz Intel 29
#17 Eric G. Nelson HP 27
#18 Marvin E. Whiteman, Jr. Performance Design 24
#19 Alexander J. Asconeguy Medtronic 22
#20 H. Montgomery Manning Nantero 21
#21 Paul Dlugosch Micron 19
#21 Richard Harper Microsoft 19
#23 Mike Alan Holmberg HP 18
#24 Grayden Howard 17
#24 William Herrmann HP 17
#26 Andrew Spencer HP 16
#26 Curt N. Van Lydegraf HP 16
#26 David M. Dorrough Franklin Sensors 16
#29 Kevin Mellor Conagra Foods Rdm 15
#30 Nicholas M. van Heel IBM 14
#30 Brett Donahue Metrologic Instruments 14
#32 Jeffrey D. Rutland HP 13
#32 Kurt Robert Bengtson HP 13
#34 Christopher D. Jones Smart Surgical 12
#34 Darius Boockholdt 12
#36 Maryann Stanko 11
#36 Peter Dane Bird Nortel Networks Limited 11
#36 James Cathey Lagoon Point Enterprises 11
#36 Michael K. Colby 11
#36 Steve Hayes Outlander 11
#36 Larry Jake Chapple Multiquip 11
#42 Marc S. Hamilton Micron 10
#42 Jimmy Sfaelos HP 10
#42 DeVerl Stokes Disney 10
#42 Shawn Rosti Micron 10
#42 C. Scott Humphrey 10
#47 Clifford Hoye, Jr. 9
#47 Devin Shively Intuit 9
#47 Angela K. Hanson HP 9
#47 Jerry Hopkins 9

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