Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Edina, MN ranks #520 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 6,423 patents from 909 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Edina, MN include Seagate Technology, Trans1, Sumitomo Electric Industries. That works out to 120.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 909 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Dimitar V. Dimitrov Seagate Technology 144
2 Andrew H. Cragg Trans1 143
3 Richard M. Ehrlich Sumitomo Electric Industries 114
#4 Steven J. Koester IBM 97
#5 Kenneth T. Heruth Medtronic 89
#5 Yousef F. Alkhatib St. Jude Medical 89
#7 Jeffrey D. Johnson King Technology 86
#8 Steven W. Lundberg Black Hills Ip Holdings 81
#9 Aaron R. McCabe Cardiac Pacemakers 77
#10 Hugh D. Hestad Zimmer Spine 76
#10 Riyan Alex Mendonsa Seagate Technology 76
#12 Simon Liao Headway Technologies 74
#12 Thomas Guzik Whp Workflow Solutions 74
#12 Jean-Christophe Giron Sage Electrochromics 74
#15 Eric J. Panken Medtronic 69
#16 Matthew F. Ogle St. Jude Medical 63
#17 Theodore P. Adams Angeion 61
#18 Chaouki A. Khamis Boston Scientific Scimed 58
#19 Yuhang Cheng Seagate Technology 57
#19 Liliana Atanasoska Boston Scientific Scimed 57
#21 Joel Racchini Medtronic 55
#21 David J. Yonce Cardiac Pacemakers 55
#23 Mark William Covington Seagate Technology 53
#24 Sining Mao Seagate Technology 52
#25 Muhammad Adeel Whp Workflow Solutions 50
#26 Jason Alan Shiroff Mainstay Medical Limited 49
#27 Steven Tin Honeywell 48
#28 Thomas B. Hoegh Medtronic 47
#29 William F. Kaemmerer Medtronic 46
#30 Paul M. Goudreau Tenacious Holdings 45
#31 Paul A. James Krueger International 42
#32 William H. Moser 3M 40
#33 Isaac Shpantzer Eight Holdings 39
#34 Dadi Setiadi Seagate Technology 38
#35 David J. Sogard Boston Scientific Scimed 37
#36 Timothy J. Nordberg Honeywell 34
#36 Tanya Jegeris Snyder Assa Abloy Ab 34
#36 David Jennings Seagate Technology 34
#39 Hoo Y. Chung Donaldson Company 33
#39 James A. Peterson Incisive Surgical 33
#39 Michael Feldman Microsoft 33
#42 Timothy S. Sudeith Everlast Climbing Industries 32
#42 Byron L. Gilman Survivalink 32
#44 Mark A. Litman Aveka 30
#44 Mohammed Shariat Ullah Patwari Seagate Technology 30
#44 Paul C. Belvedere Bite Tech 30
#47 James Dillon Kiely Seagate Technology 29
#47 Thomas G. Clifford Broadcom 29
#47 David J. Kupiecki Target Therapeutics 29
#50 Anthony F. Purchio Oncogen 28

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