Top Inventors in Stillwater, MN | Patent Leaderboard

Stillwater, MN ranks #577 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 5,879 patents from 719 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Stillwater, MN include Cardiac Pacemakers, 3M, St. Jude Medical Atg. That works out to 303.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 719 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Andrew P. Kramer	Cardiac Pacemakers	226
2	John A. Wheatley	3M	196
3	James O. Gilkerson	Cardiac Pacemakers	100
#4	David B. Olson	3M	97
#5	Michael A. Meis	3M	96
#6	William M. Lamanna	3M	95
#7	William Blake Kolb	3M	90
#8	Todd A. Berg	St. Jude Medical Atg	89
#9	Thomas E. Meyer	Medtronic	88
#10	Rahul Mehra	Medtronic	79
#11	Caroline M. Ylitalo	3M	70
#12	Steven J. Hamrock	3M	68
#13	Michael A. Johnson	3M	65
#14	Lloyd S. Vasilakes	3M	64
#15	Richard E. Stehr	St. Jude Medical, Atrial Fibrillation Division	62
#16	Richard L. Jacobson	3M	61
#17	Mark K. Debe	3M	60
#18	Timothy A. Palmer	Cure Medical	58
#19	Mark A. Roehrig	3M	50
#20	James F. Pitzen	3M	45
#21	James R. Steele	Dynamic Air	44
#21	Jon A. Kirschhoffer	3M	44
#21	Stephen D. Kuslich	Spineology	44
#24	Matthew J. Miller	Rec Silicon	43
#24	Ryan Douglas	Apple	43
#26	Anja Metzger	Zoll Medical	42
#26	Robert John Lundell	Keystone Retaining Wall Systems	42
#28	Eric R. Balz	Ecolab Usa	41
#28	Kemal Schankereli	Tendyne Holdings	41
#30	Eric W. Nelson	3M	40
#31	Paul G. Saldin	Resolution Products	38
#31	Jonathan D. Zook	3M	38
#33	G. Marco Bommarito	3M	36
#34	Catherine A. Bothof	3M	34
#35	Ronald C. Johansson	3M	32
#36	Ilya Gorodisher	3M	31
#37	Daniel J. Potter	St. Jude Medical, Atrial Fibrillation Division	30
#38	Timothy J. McCullough	Food Industry Equipment International	29
#38	John E. Gozum	3M	29
#38	James E. Aysta	3M	29
#38	Charles D. Hoyle	3M	29
#38	Jo A. Etter	3M	29
#38	John R. David	3M	29
#38	Roger A. Mader	—	29
#45	Frederick J. Arsenault	3M	28
#45	Terence D. Spawn	3M	28
#47	Steven J. McMan	3M	26
#47	Kristin L. Thunhorst	3M	26
#47	VenKatesh R. Manda	Medtronic	26
#50	Alan D. Rousseau	3M	25

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