Top Inventors in West Des Moines, IA

West Des Moines, IA ranks #2,543 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,220 patents from 276 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in West Des Moines, IA include Pioneer (Corteva), Stine Seed Farm, Cobbs Manufacturing. That works out to 17.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 276 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Andre R. Abad	Pioneer (Corteva)	71
2	Joseph R. Byrum	Stine Seed Farm	48
3	Scott Diehn	Pioneer (Corteva)	42
#4	Thomas R. Steinhagen	Cobbs Manufacturing	38
#4	Ronald L. Barnes	Ncr	38
#6	Mitchell C. Tarczynski	Pioneer (Corteva)	37
#7	Philip E. O. Buelow	Delavan	35
#8	Sue B. Lo	Pioneer (Corteva)	32
#9	Mary Trimnell	Pioneer (Corteva)	28
#10	Steven P. Hergott	Townsend Engineering	26
#11	Justin Borgstadt	Halliburton Energy Services	22
#11	Neal A. Thomson	Delavan	22
#13	Saul Mirsky	Compressor Controls	19
#14	David H. Bretz	Delavan	18
#14	Michael Hamilton	HP	18
#16	Vincent L. Basile, II	Townsend Engineering	15
#17	Mark S. Nesbit	Aventis Pharma S.A.	13
#17	Brindha Narasimhamoorthy	Kemin Industries	13
#17	Louis Brian Chapko	Pioneer (Corteva)	13
#20	Francis A. Wittern, Jr.	Fawn Engineering	12
#21	Gary A. Sandahl	Pioneer (Corteva)	11
#21	Steven J. Myers	Delavan	11
#21	Matthias Liebergesell	Pioneer (Corteva)	11
#21	John Bell Payne	Diamond Scientific	11
#21	Marvin Morford	—	11
#26	Henry J. Albright	Fawn Engineering	10
#27	Nicholas Gillis	Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.	9
#27	Randy Blevins	Res Usa	9
#27	Jenna Sun	John Deere	9
#27	Mohan Prasad A. Dasari	Rrip	9
#27	James Franklin Bierl	John Deere	9
#27	ALBERT L. LU	Pioneer (Corteva)	9
#27	Cindy Rhodes	John Deere	9
#34	Tatiana Seregina	Human Gene Therapy Research Institute	8
#34	Herbert O. Dixon, Jr.	Dico	8
#34	James D. Crowell	Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.	8
#34	Ronald K. Grooters	Pilling	8
#34	Jerry DuBois	Motorola	8
#39	Vladimir Vlad	Biova, L.L.C.	7
#39	Leon G. McCullough	Ami Investments	7
#39	J. Morris Binder	Tone Brothers	7
#39	Warren M. Kruger	Monsanto Technology	7
#43	Mark Oman	—	6
#43	Kevin E. Thompson	Delavan	6
#43	Satish Nayak	Sling Media L.L.C.	6
#43	Andrew W. Maddux	Stork Townsend	6
#43	Wolfgang Schuh	Pioneer (Corteva)	6
#43	Andrew J. Heidloff	Iowa State University	6
#43	David S. Mercer	John Deere	6
#50	Daniel W. Pfeffer	Townsend Engineering	5

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