Top Inventors in River Falls, WI

River Falls, WI ranks #2,139 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,488 patents from 221 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in River Falls, WI include 3M, Medtronic, Semitool. That works out to 92.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 221 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	John E. Thomas	—	97
2	Scott D. Gullicks	3M	79
3	Bryon A. Merrill	3M	77
#4	Christian S. Nielsen	Medtronic	60
#5	Gary L. Curtis	Semitool	50
#6	Gregg A. Ambur	3M	46
#7	Nick A. Youker	Cardiac Pacemakers	40
#8	Timothy L. Hoopman	3M	37
#9	Mark Richter	Graco Minnesota	35
#10	Greg Fuchs	Emprimus	31
#11	David C. Byram	3M	30
#11	Gregory L. Zwadlo	3M	30
#13	Matthew F. Schmidt	Fluke	28
#14	Dwight W. Jacobs	3M	27
#15	Joe V. Gednalske	Winfield Solutions	23
#16	David Charles Zlesak	The Conard Pyle	22
#17	Kent Harry Forsland	—	21
#18	Denis J. Langlois	Imation	19
#18	Eivind Stenersen	Donaldson Company	19
#20	Kathryn M. Spurgeon	3M	17
#21	Todd Bjork	Spineology	16
#21	Jeremy J. Odegard	Asante Solutions	16
#23	Jacqueline C. Rolf	3M	14
#23	Keith R. Bruesewitz	3M	14
#23	Richard Lawrence Suydam	Donaldson Company	14
#26	Duane A. Preszler	3M	13
#26	Michael Brown	Air Motion Systems	13
#26	Jack W. Charbonneau	3M	13
#29	Panu K. Zoller	3M	12
#29	George D. Foss	3M	12
#29	Henry E. Troost	Honeywell	12
#32	Andrea Clark	Winfield Solutions	11
#33	James A. Higgins	3M	10
#33	Troy K. Ista	3M	10
#33	Eric Bloms	T. W. Vending	10
#33	Sam Bengston	T. W. Vending	10
#33	Ruth Dagmar Kreichauf	Honeywell	10
#33	Thomas W. Schwartz	3M	10
#39	Randy A. Larson	3M	9
#39	Dietmar Schlei	3M	9
#39	Thomas C. Ensign, Jr.	Xyron	9
#39	Roger C. Oestreich	Modern Controls	9
#39	Jeffrey D. Janovec	3M	9
#39	Thomas J. Strey	3M	9
#39	Lee Boles	Winfield Solutions	9
#46	John Bergman	Resolution Products	8
#46	James A. Phipps	3M	8
#46	Adam J. Cernohous	3M	8
#46	Brent D. Niccum	3M	8
#50	Daniel Keller	Hi-Fold Door	7

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