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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Sandpoint, ID ranks #7,124 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 329 patents from 87 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Sandpoint, ID include Homax Products, Healy Systems, Lifenexus. That works out to 38.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 87 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Lester R. Greer, Jr. Homax Products 56
2 James W. Healy Healy Systems 32
3 Christopher Maus Lifenexus 24
#4 Allen M. Mangum Polaris Industries 16
#5 Alexander W. Deneui Coda Project 13
#5 Clement R. Yonker Battelle Memorial Institute 13
#7 Robert M. Rutan Naturs Design 11
#8 Cody L. Telford Polaris Industries 10
#8 Brandon Maus Uqontrol 10
#10 Charles Fischer Manning 8
#10 Eric Bond Cisco 8
#12 John Snedden Unicep Packaging 7
#13 Stephan Kuster Asten 6
#14 John E. Eisenhauer Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 5
#14 Jerry Daniel Claridge 5
#16 Aubrey Falconer 4
#16 Todd Vorhies Evolve Technologies 4
#16 Robert C. Kellogg Wis Seaming Equipment 4
#16 Phillip M. Driggars Polaris Industries 4
#16 Antti P. Raiha 4
#16 Lorrin Edward Chang Unicep Packaging 4
#22 Dana Jordan Harken, Incorporated 3
#22 Vernon Alan Barber 3
#22 Ian Nicolades 3
#22 Carl S. Barlow 3
#22 Kim Dandurand 3
#27 Duane P. Kincaid 2
#27 James H. Ragland Shell California Production 2
#27 Craig W. Story 2
#27 Scott Sawby 2
#27 Don Holland 2
#32 Chad Thomas Nuxoll 1
#32 Vaughn H. Hughes Johnson Controls Tyco Ip Holdings Llp 1
#32 Mark D. Beeman 1
#32 Denise Healy 1
#32 Mitchell J. Kingsland 1
#32 Haldan R. Gates Tamarack Aerospace Group 1
#32 Dwight W. Mitchell Tamarack Aerospace Group 1
#32 Matthew A. Janssen 1
#32 Kurt Forgét 1
#32 Eric Rieman 1
#32 Richard D. Course 1
#32 Dan R. Bachman 1
#32 Dennis Thimling Kimball International 1
#32 John Meschko 1
#32 James K. Beatty Kimball International 1
#32 Thomas A. Sykes 1
#32 Gary P. Wells Wis Seaming Equipment 1
#32 Christopher K. Chambers 1
#32 Nancy I. Andrews 1

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