Top Inventors in Rochester, MN | Patent Leaderboard

Rochester, MN ranks #93 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 27,750 patents from 3,042 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Rochester, MN include IBM, Western Digital Technologies, Oshkosh. That works out to 228.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 3,042 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	John M. Santosuosso	IBM	735
2	Cary Lee Bates	IBM	415
3	Michael J. Branson	IBM	329
#4	Richard D. Dettinger	IBM	285
#5	Charles J. Archer	IBM	245
#6	Paul Reuben Day	IBM	195
#7	John E. Petri	IBM	178
#8	Gerald K. Bartley	IBM	166
#9	Eric J. Campbell	IBM	158
#10	Eric V. Kline	IBM	153
#10	Brian J. Cragun	IBM	153
#12	Paul E. Schardt	IBM	151
#13	Richard Leo Galbraith	Western Digital Technologies	138
#14	Daniel F. Moertl	IBM	136
#15	Alexander Cook	IBM	132
#16	Philip J. Sanders	IBM	130
#17	John R. Dangler	IBM	124
#18	Daniel P. Kolz	IBM	121
#19	Timothy J. Tofil	IBM	119
#20	Sarah K. Czaplewski	IBM	118
#21	Darryl J. Becker	IBM	115
#22	Joshua D. Rocholl	Oshkosh	113
#23	William J. Armstrong	IBM	110
#23	Arvind K. Sinha	IBM	110
#25	Gregory R. Hintermeister	IBM	108
#26	Naresh Nayar	IBM	107
#26	David Arnold Luick	IBM	107
#28	Jeffrey W. Tenner	IBM	104
#29	William J. Schmidt	IBM	102
#30	Todd A. Christensen	IBM	101
#31	William Paul Hovis	IBM	100
#31	Joseph W. Cropper	IBM	100
#33	Phil C. Paone	IBM	97
#33	Scott B. King	IBM	97
#35	Charles S. Graham	IBM	96
#36	Jason A. Nikolai	IBM	95
#36	John Michael Borkenhagen	IBM	95
#38	Gregory J. Uhlmann	IBM	94
#39	Hal Hjalmar Ottesen	IBM	92
#39	Phillip V. Mann	IBM	92
#41	Mark K. Hoffmeyer	IBM	89
#41	Adrian C. Gerhard	IBM	89
#41	Zachary L. Klein	Oshkosh	89
#41	Frederick A. Kulack	IBM	89
#45	Amanda Peters	IBM	86
#46	Zachary Adam Garbow	IBM	85
#47	Don A. Gilliland	IBM	84
#47	Robert Edward Galbraith	IBM	84
#47	Eric A. Eckberg	IBM	84
#50	David L. Darrington	IBM	83

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