Top Inventors in Oakdale, MN | Patent Leaderboard

Oakdale, MN ranks #1,364 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 2,457 patents from 368 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Oakdale, MN include 3M, Samsung, The Toro. That works out to 86.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 368 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Werner M. A. Grootaert	3M	69
2	Andrew R. Fox	3M	60
3	Kam W. Law	Samsung	54
#4	Michael R. Berrigan	3M	53
#5	Minyu Li	—	51
#5	Michael J. Rice	3M	51
#7	Robert A. Yapel	3M	49
#7	Chadwick A. Shaffer	The Toro	49
#9	Bruce R. Broyles	3M	43
#10	Robert S. Moshrefzadeh	3M	39
#10	Daniel J. Despen	—	39
#12	Dipankar Ghosh	3M	37
#13	Steven J. Haehn	Kx Technologies	35
#13	Valtino X. Afonso	—	35
#15	Mark D. Purgett	3M	32
#16	James S. Mrozinski	3M	30
#17	Alan B. Campbell	3M	28
#18	Christopher A. Haak	3M	27
#19	Chester A. Bacon, Jr.	3M	26
#19	Richard J. Rolando	3M	26
#19	Craig Van Kampen	Rotation Medical	26
#22	Patrick Tessier	Honeywell	23
#22	Chin-Yee Ng	3M	23
#24	Robert D. P. Hei	—	22
#24	Curtis H. Lindblom	Skyline Displays	22
#24	Ellen O. Aeling	3M	22
#27	Michael J. Parent	3M	21
#27	Kara A. Meyers	3M	21
#27	Daniel M. Pierpont	3M	21
#30	James E. Lasch	3M	20
#30	Barry S. Carpenter	3M	20
#32	William F. Sheffield	3M	19
#32	James C. Breister	3M	19
#32	Robert D. Waid	3M	19
#35	Christopher P. Knapp	Cardiac Pacemakers	18
#35	Andrea N. Para	—	18
#35	John M. Sebastian	3M	18
#38	Todd J. Christianson	3M	17
#38	James D. Joseph	Actel	17
#40	Robert W. Tapani	Imation	16
#41	Joseph Einberger	Donaldson Company	15
#41	Mark A. Tomai	3M	15
#41	Dylan T. Cosgrove	3M	15
#44	Patrick Thomas Gerst	Colder Products	14
#44	Joseph Graham	3M	14
#44	Thomas E. Haskett	3M	14
#44	Edward D. Goff	3M	14
#44	Charles Bryan Byrd	St. Jude Medical, Atrial Fibrillation Division	14
#44	Peter M. Olofson	3M	14
#50	John F. Kistner	3M	13

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