Top Inventors in Minot, ND | Patent Leaderboard

Minot, ND ranks #12,001 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 152 patents from 68 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Minot, ND include Xconnect, Vasichek Enterprises, Thermo King. That works out to 3.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 68 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Shelby L. Sullivan	Xconnect	39
2	Dean S. Somerville	Vasichek Enterprises	11
3	Byron D. Lane	—	6
#4	Doug Lenz	Thermo King	5
#5	Dean C. Solberg	—	4
#6	Walter R. Behrens	—	3
#6	Kent Kirkhammer	—	3
#6	Lawrence Johnson	—	3
#6	Aaron Faken	—	3
#6	James M. McDonald	Mac	3
#6	Lois M. Erdmann	—	3
#6	Shandi S. Teltschik	—	3
#13	Jerome A. Pullen	—	2
#13	Jerry A. Armstrong	—	2
#13	James H. Haskins	—	2
#13	Larry E. Weltikol	—	2
#13	David P. Morstad	—	2
#13	Mikhail Bobylev	—	2
#13	Paul M. Zaharia	—	2
#13	Derek Olson	—	2
#13	Virgil L. Farstad	Unknown	2
#13	Donald L. Torgrimson	—	2
#23	Terry Roe	—	1
#23	Mary A. Preston	—	1
#23	Harold Struksnes	—	1
#23	Stephen Stripe	University Of North Dakota	1
#23	Frank M. Kostelnik	—	1
#23	Marty L. Jorgenson	—	1
#23	Nicholas R. Garber	—	1
#23	Jeffrey D. Holte	—	1
#23	Jocelyn Audet	—	1
#23	Hope R. Buchweitz	—	1
#23	Jerry Wentz	—	1
#23	Balakrishnan Jayapathy	—	1
#23	Philip B. Bolyard	—	1
#23	Patricia A. Bolyard	—	1
#23	J. Dean Caldwell	—	1
#23	Michelle R. Saari	—	1
#23	Dennis W. Eklund	—	1
#23	Theodore R. Austin	—	1
#23	Percy B. Radke	—	1
#23	James Bondly	—	1
#23	Lester L. Wallace	—	1
#23	Clarence F. Goebel	—	1
#23	Reuben J. Ulrich, Jr.	—	1
#23	Darrell G. Stambaugh	—	1
#23	Darrell A. Weber	—	1
#23	Ronald J. Des Roches	—	1
#23	Herbert A. Mosher	—	1
#23	Bruce D. Grover	—	1

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