Top Inventors in Maplewood, MN | Patent Leaderboard

Maplewood, MN ranks #887 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 3,732 patents from 510 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Maplewood, MN include Cardiac Pacemakers, 3M, Medtronic. That works out to 88.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 510 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	John D. Hatlestad	Cardiac Pacemakers	128
2	Richard J. Pokorny	3M	104
3	James R. Keogh	Medtronic	98
#4	Wayne K. Dunshee	3M	91
#5	Patricia M. Savu	3M	77
#6	Fred B. McCormick	3M	69
#7	Patrick Gonia	Honeywell	59
#8	Anatoly Z. Rosenflanz	3M	57
#9	Perry S. Dotterman	3M	51
#10	John C. Clark	3M	50
#11	Lawrence W. Wales	Anulex Technologies	46
#12	Thomas P. Anderson	Arizant Healthcare	44
#12	Arthur V. Lang	3M	44
#14	Eric J. Voth	St. Jude Medical, Atrial Fibrillation Division	43
#15	Naimul Karim	3M	42
#16	Surekha Palreddy	Cameron Health	41
#17	Paul F. Baude	3M	35
#18	James M. Haase	Medtronic	34
#19	Alphonsus V. Pocius	3M	31
#20	Mark A. Strobel	3M	29
#20	Alan J. Sipinen	3M	29
#22	Paul A. Martinson	3M	28
#22	Joan M. Noyola	3M	28
#24	Chaofeng Zou	Eastman Kodak	27
#24	Derek J. Dehn	3M	27
#24	Zhiming Zhou	3M	27
#24	James E. Watson	3M	27
#28	Thomas D. Nelson	—	26
#28	Michael C. McGrath	Avatar Systems	26
#28	David J. Moore	3Com	26
#31	Larry Wales	Spine Wave	25
#32	Yaoqi J. Liu	3M	24
#32	Joseph M. McGrath	3M	24
#32	Xuan Jiang	3M	24
#32	David B. Malcolm	H.B. Fuller Licensing & Financing	24
#36	Thu-Van T. Tran	3M	23
#36	Jeffrey M. Florczak	3M	23
#36	Christopher J. Zwettler	Imation	23
#36	Ronald F. Ofstead	3M	23
#40	Craig M. Brannon	Vtc	22
#40	Thomas J. Ludemann	Eastman Kodak	22
#42	Jason T. Lenz	Boston Scientific Scimed	21
#42	Wayne K. Larson	3M	21
#42	Gerald L. Karel	3M	21
#42	Michael E. Griffin	3M	21
#42	Ali El-Afandi	General Mills	21
#42	Aleksey V. Kurdyumov	Surmodics	21
#48	Michael D. Kaytor	Humanetics	20
#48	Leif O. Erickson	3M	20
#48	Srinivasan Kannan	Oracle	20

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