Top Inventors in Rapid City, SD | Patent Leaderboard

Rapid City, SD ranks #3,206 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 941 patents from 295 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Rapid City, SD include South Dakota Board Of Regents, Micron, Cetus. That works out to 12.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 295 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Haiping Hong	South Dakota Board Of Regents	25
2	Michael Connell	Micron	23
2	Robert Zimmerman	Cetus	23
#4	Zhengtao Zhu	University Of Illinois	22
#5	William J. Barnes	General Motors	21
#6	Stuart E. Fromm	Depuy Mitek	18
#7	Michael Joyce	B9Creations	16
#7	David A. Boyles	Lear	16
#7	Thomas J. Holmes	Space Systems/Loral	16
#10	Patrick R. Zimmerman	South Dakota School Of Mines And Technology	15
#10	Carol A. Rae	Immutrix Therapeutics	15
#12	Hao Fong	Nanopareil	14
#12	Jan Simoni	Immutrix Therapeutics	14
#14	Dennis J. Helfritch	Research-Cottrell	13
#14	David R. Salem	South Dakota Board Of Regents	13
#14	Bradley R. Eveleth	Cowboys Caps	13
#17	John F. Moeller	Immutrix Therapeutics	12
#17	Ryan McFarland	Strider Sports International	12
#19	Jacob Brown	Spm Oil & Gas	11
#19	John B. Jarding	I-Lumen Scientific	11
#19	Grace Simoni	Immutrix Therapeutics	11
#19	Christian Widener	South Dakota Board Of Regents	11
#23	Victor Champagne	South Dakota Board Of Regents	10
#23	Kenneth R. Harris	AMD	10
#23	Rob Wendt	Pilepro Gmbh	10
#23	Kip M. Larson	Littelfuse	10
#27	Jon Kellar	South Dakota Board Of Regents	9
#28	David Langerman	South Dakota Board Of Regents	8
#28	Jack R. Gaines	Eldon Industries	8
#28	Paul Whalen	General Mills	8
#31	Peda V Medagam	Phase Technologies	7
#31	Jan A. Puszynski	US Air Force	7
#31	Jeevan Meruga	South Dakota Board Of Regents	7
#31	Lori J. Groven	Purdue Research Foundation	7
#31	Larry Lytle	2035	7
#31	Steven W. Stanton	Tektronix	7
#37	Dean W. Walters	Caterpillar	6
#37	John T. Bendler	GE	6
#37	John W. Willard, Sr.	—	6
#37	P. Stanley May	South Dakota Board Of Regents	6
#37	Bert D. Mannhalter	Arris Composites	6
#37	Sammy L. Coleman	—	6
#37	Kayhan Karatekeli	Dish Technologies L.L.C.	6
#44	Bernt Askildsen	—	5
#44	Xinghui Meng	South Dakota School Of Mines And Technology	5
#44	Casey Dean Allen	Spirit Aerosystems	5
#44	Thomas Skoog	Boston Scientific Scimed	5
#44	Mark W. Ingalls	Spectrum Control	5
#49	Will Hansen	—	4
#49	Gary L. Babl	—	4

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