Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Maple Grove, MN ranks #329 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 9,377 patents from 1,211 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Maple Grove, MN include Medtronic, Cardiac Pacemakers, St. Jude Medical, Atrial Fibrillation Division. That works out to 133.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,211 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Martin T. Gerber Medtronic 285
2 Bruce H. KenKnight Cardiac Pacemakers 224
3 Krzysztof Z. Siejko Cardiac Pacemakers 157
#4 Huisun Wang St. Jude Medical, Atrial Fibrillation Division 140
#5 Yi-Ching Chen Zhejiang Super Lighting Electric Appliance Co. 135
#6 James D. Reinke Medtronic 113
#7 Vinod Sharma Intel 101
#8 Cyril J. Schweich, Jr. Myocor 96
#9 Sidney A. Higgins Starkey Laboratories 91
#10 Hong Cao St. Jude Medical, Atrial Fibrillation Division 89
#11 Eduardo N. Warman Medtronic 85
#12 Venugopal Allavatam Cameron Health 80
#13 Soo Young Yoon LG 79
#14 Pankaj Gupta Netlogic Microsystems 78
#15 Erik R. Scott Medtronic 77
#16 Jonathon E. Giftakis Medtronic 74
#17 David B. Lura Medtronic 72
#18 Daniel Youngner Honeywell 63
#19 Graig L. Kveen Boston Scientific Scimed 62
#20 Jeffrey S. Lindquist Boston Scientific Scimed 60
#21 Jacob Lamb Rockwell Automation 59
#21 Kevin R. Driscoll Honeywell 59
#23 Scott R. Stubbs Cardiac Pacemakers 58
#24 Daniel R. Johnson Uop 57
#24 Gregg Sutton Atritech 57
#26 Nikhil M. Murdeshwar Gyrus Acmi 54
#27 Cory Grabinger Honeywell 53
#28 Stacy Abel Target Brands 52
#28 Anthony C. Vrba Scimed Life Systems 52
#30 Paul A. Belk Medtronic 51
#30 Mark A. Bakke Cisco 51
#32 James N. Weinstein General Mills 50
#33 Paul F. Chouinard Boston Scientific Scimed 47
#33 Jianhua Xue Seagate Technology 47
#33 Nathaniel S. Doy Caterpillar 47
#36 Eric N. Rudie Urologix 45
#36 Rajeev M. Sahasrabudhe Medtronic 45
#38 Bradley J. Wessman Anulex Technologies 43
#39 Juan Gabriel Hincapie Ordonez Boston Scientific 42
#39 Shri Niwas 3M 42
#39 SuPing Lyu Medtronic 42
#42 Justin M. Crank Boston Scientific Scimed 41
#43 Michael M. Song Polaris Industries 40
#43 Kurt R. Thielen Roku 40
#45 Gary A. Rocheleau Ams Research 39
#45 Richard K. Spielberger Honeywell 39
#45 Thomas Scott Breidenbach Adaptive Aerodynamic 39
#48 Donald J. Kasprzyk Honeywell 37
#48 Edward Anderson Fastwave Medical 37
#48 Andrew J. Thom Medtronic 37

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