Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

New Brighton, MN ranks #1,428 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 2,354 patents from 414 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in New Brighton, MN include Cardiac Pacemakers, Drag Specialties, University of Minnesota. That works out to 100.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 414 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Keith R. Maile Cardiac Pacemakers 237
2 Alwin J. Stahel Drag Specialties 96
3 Arthur G. Erdman University of Minnesota 53
#4 Steven C. Christian St. Jude Medical, Atrial Fibrillation Division 42
#5 Jerome T. Hartlaub Medtronic 37
#6 Gabriel A. Bergman Honeywell 31
#6 Shyam Gokaldas Medtronic 31
#8 Jyue Boon Lim Gyrus Acmi 28
#9 Phillip L. Mattison Henkel Limited 27
#10 Ryan A. Chernik Ecolab Usa 26
#11 Andrew Johnson Gooee Limited 25
#11 Brian K. Stahel Kuryakyn Holdings 25
#11 Ping Li Multi-Tech Systems 25
#14 Michael W. Heinks Medtronic 24
#15 Dennis A. Brumwell Angeion 22
#16 Laurie R. Lawin Surmodics 21
#17 Hannah Vu Vision Ease, Lp 20
#18 Yen-Lane Chen Boston Scientific Scimed 19
#18 Merwin H. Alferness Unisys 19
#18 Steven R. Kuczenski Graco Minnesota 19
#18 Cedar Vandergon Hypertherm 19
#18 Djaudat S. Idiyatullin University of Minnesota 19
#18 Forrest C. M. Pape Medtronic 19
#18 Joseph P. Kerzman Unisys 19
#25 Gregory R. Ley Cardiac Pacemakers 18
#25 William L. Beling Smiths Medical Asd 18
#27 Vittorio L. Jaker Stratasys 16
#27 Stanley L. Kaufman Tsi Group Co. 16
#27 Thomas C. Wright Empi 16
#27 Thomas P. Cooper Unisys 16
#31 Edwin G. Duffin Medtronic 15
#31 Ronald G. Schloesser Stratasys 15
#31 Gabriela C. Miyazawa Medtronic 15
#31 Oden Lee Warren Hysitron 15
#31 Jon M. Ocel Medtronic 15
#36 Lawrence C. Arvidson Hypro 14
#36 Gunter Stein Honeywell 14
#36 James E. Upton Medtronic 14
#36 Larry F. Weber University Of Illinois 14
#36 Randall H. Victora Eastman Kodak 14
#36 Paul E. Colombo Chorus 14
#42 James J. Sun Msp 13
#42 Joshua Wibben Allegro Microsystems 13
#44 Mark Tempel Ivanti 12
#44 Paul J. Meyer Baron Services 12
#44 Ronald K. Thery 3M 12
#44 Nicholas Schmidt Grand Dunes Entry Systems 12
#44 Wayne D. Ward Unisys 12
#44 Robert G. Schultz 12
#44 Kevin Robert Poppe Boston Scientific Scimed 12

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