Top Inventors in Minneapolis, MN

Minneapolis, MN ranks #80 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 30,196 patents from 6,114 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Minneapolis, MN include Commscope Technologies, Johnson & Johnson, 3M. That works out to 70.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 6,114 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Steven C. Zimmel	Commscope Technologies	143
2	Gregory W. Johnson	Johnson & Johnson	134
3	Joel D. Oxman	3M	133
#4	James J. Solheid	Commscope Technologies	132
#5	Jeremy A. Clark	Target Brands	124
#6	Joshua Stopek	Tyco Healthcare Group Lp	117
#7	Keith G. Lurie	Advanced Circulatory Systems	110
#8	Richard T. Stone	Medtronic	98
#9	Fatih M. Uckun	Parker Hughes Institute	94
#10	Sara L. Pedersen	Target Brands	90
#11	Robert J. Monson	Lockheed Martin	87
#12	Zachary J. Tegels	St. Jude Medical Puerto Rico	85
#13	Edwin J. Hlavka	Rebiotix	84
#14	Michael J. Bonnette	Boston Scientific Limited	83
#15	G. Shantanu Reddy	Cardiac Pacemakers	80
#16	Robert J. DeVoe	3M	79
#17	Ryan S. Augustine	Augustine Biomedical + Design	77
#18	Thea L. Feyereisen	Honeywell	75
#19	Eric S. Olson	St. Jude Medical, Atrial Fibrillation Division	74
#20	John R. Hacker	Donaldson Company	73
#21	Johann J. Neisz	Ams Research	68
#21	Sean P. Fleury	Boston Scientific Scimed	68
#21	John E. Clegg	Coloplast A/S	68
#21	Gilles J. Benoit	Humanscale	68
#25	Louis Ellis	Scimed Life Systems	67
#25	William Dale Andruss	Emc	67
#27	Paul J. DeGroot	Medtronic	62
#28	Scott E. Denby	Target Brands	61
#29	David R. Wulfman	Cardiac Pacemakers	60
#29	Hidehiro Ishii	Pioneer Electronic	60
#31	Masato Yamamoto	Pentax	58
#31	Cheryl L. Quinn	Atyr Pharma	58
#31	Michael R. S. Hill	Medtronic	58
#31	David J. Peichel	Medtronic	58
#31	Matthew D. Chaffee	3M	58
#36	Dan Sachs	Mainstay Medical Limited	57
#37	Bruce F. Field	Tennant	56
#38	Joseph Thomas Delaney, JR.	Boston Scientific Scimed	55
#38	Brian P. Watschke	Ams Research	55
#38	Kevin C. Johnson	Stratasys	55
#41	Terrence J. Hornsby, Jr.	Target Brands	54
#41	Phillip C. Falkner	Medtronic	54
#43	Matthew R. Smith	Securus Technologies	53
#43	Joseph R. Stukenberg	Target Brands	53
#45	Thomas C. Bischoff	Medtronic	52
#45	Beau Jay Polinske	Starkey Laboratories	52
#47	Kevin R. Arnal	Ams Research	50
#47	Robert D. Peota	Target Brands	50
#49	Andrzej M. Malewicz	Medtronic	49
#49	David F. Diehl	Crowdstrike	49

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