Michigan — Patent Inventors 1997

Top Cities in Michigan 1997

Rank	City	Patents	Inventors
#1	Ann Arbor, MI	513	327
#2	Midland, MI	428	258
#3	Holland, MI	190	114
#4	Troy, MI	153	117
#5	Farmington Hills, MI	134	108
#6	Canton, MI	126	98
#7	Beverly Hills, MI	125	85
#8	Rochester Hills, MI	109	86
#9	Grand Rapids, MI	105	78
#10	Kalamazoo, MI	105	72
#11	Dearborn, MI	104	71
#12	Livonia, MI	102	76
#13	Detroit, MI	99	72
#14	Sterling Heights, MI	96	79
#15	Northville, MI	94	68
#16	Southfield, MI	93	67
#17	Bloomfield Hills, MI	89	62
#18	Rochester, MI	89	53
#19	Novi, MI	82	58
#20	Ypsilanti, MI	66	44
#21	Portage, MI	65	43
#22	Birmingham, MI	64	55
#23	Plymouth, MI	63	46
#24	Tokyo, MI	63	24
#25	Royal Oak, MI	58	47

Rank	Inventor	City	Company	Patents
1	Phillip Dan Cook	Ann Arbor	Isis Pharmaceuticals	21
1	Billy Joe Ratliff, Jr.	Inkster	The Goodyear Tire & Rubber	21
3	Daryl R. Harris	Oxford	Motorola	15
#4	James C. Sell, Jr.	Saginaw	Nike	11
#5	David M. Preston	Madison Heights	Eaton	10
#5	Michael Long	Sparta	Eastman Kodak	10
#7	Leonard C. Andrus	Beverly Hills	Brasscraft Manufacturing	9
#7	Shinichi Ito	Southfield	Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba	9
#7	Hashem Akhavan-Tafti	Howell	Lumigen	9
#7	Christos Kyrtsos	Beverly Hills	Caterpillar	9
#11	Stanford R. Ovshinsky	Bloomfield Hills	Energy Conversion Devices	8
#11	Kurt Dykema	Holland	Prince	8
#11	Michael John Cullen	Dearborn	Ford	8
#11	Mark L. Zeinstra	Holland	Prince	8
#11	Jose F. Regueiro	Rochester	Chrysler Group	8
#11	Annette Marian Doherty	Ann Arbor	Warner-Lambert Company	8
#11	James Baker	Vassar	Vidamed	8
#11	R. Garth Pews	Midland	The Dow Chemical	8
#19	Manuel C. Turchan	Dearborn	Qqc	7
#19	Robert J. S. Kyle	Battle Creek	Texas Instruments	7
#19	John Lawson	Ortonville	Chrysler Group	7
#19	Kurt C. Frisch	Detroit	Bayer Materialscience Ag	7
#19	Ravi B. Shankar	Midland	The Dow Chemical	7
#19	Philip M. Harrington	Plainwell	American Cyanamid	7
#19	James Zaguroli, Jr.	Auburn Hills	Knight Industries & Associates	7